From the category archives:
Cynthia asks: “Hi Steve, I have been using profile generator for my organization for a while now, but a new issue has come up. We want to simply move users to a new exchange server host name, without deleting their current profile. Otherwise their PST files and other things attached to the profile will get […]
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I have gotten this call before – A friend has a new computer. For a free dinner or maybe a few beers (Or Both!) would I help them move everything over? Sure no problem I say. Just a few word docs, and an email account. Hmm..an email account. This friend of mine has used Gmail […]
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One of the problems when deploying Microsoft Outlook is that there is always some form or wizard that needs to be completed before a user can start accessing their email. Even in the latest version of Outlook, there are still setup pages the user has to fill out. This can get especially annoying if you […]
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We have gotten your emails, and fixed a few bugs with our Profile Generator beta. All of them were special side cases that prevented a generated profile from being used by outlook. What is profile generator? It is a command line application that you can drop into a logon script. Once it is there, users […]
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For quite some time we have had a product called Profile Generator. It is a command line application that you can drop into a logon script. Once it is there, users can launch Outlook and get right into their email. No more setup wizards, and no more support calls for those users that roam from […]
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Back in 2007, I wrote an article about an error that you get in Outlook when you have too many attachments of the same name: Even Outlook 2010 has this problem. In the article, I walk you through deleting these files by hand. It is not an easy thing to do. You need to open […]
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One of the problems when deploying MS Outlook is that there is always some a wizard that needs to be completed before a user can start accessing their email. Even in the latest version of Outlook, there are setup pages the user has to fill out. This can get annoying if you have users that […]
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With Microsoft Outlook there is always some form or wizard that needs to be completed before a user can start accessing their email. Even in Outlook 2010, there are still setup pages the user has to fill out. This can get especially painful if you have users that logon to different computers across your network. […]
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I recently received a question from a reader: Hi Steve, I recently read your article about changing the default save location for MS Outlook 2003 at http://www.intelliadmin.com/blog/index.php/2007/09/set-default-folder-for-attachments-in-outlook-2003/ It is very informative; however, it was almost what I was looking for. I would like to change the default OPEN location, so I was wondering if you […]
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Back in 2007 I wrote an article on how to backup your auto-complete data in Outlook. This tip is for Outlook 2003 – even though I don’t mention it – it works for Outlook 2007 too. What is Auto-Complete? When you start typing out an email address, outlook will automatically start filling it out for […]
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