Fri, Jun 18, 2010
I received a request to have someone “CC’d” on all meeting invitations sent to a conference room in Outlook. To accomplish this, I simply created a mail profile in Outlook as the calendar (can also be done through OWA) and created a Rule to forward all meeting invitations and updates to the requested recipient.
To create the rule in Outlook:
Click Tools –> Rules and Alerts –> New Rule Choose “Check Messages When They Arrive” Check the box “which is a meeting invitation or update” Click Next Select either “forward it to people or distribution list” or “forward it to people or distribution list as an attachment” (see below) Now, you have two options here.
Thu, Jun 17, 2010
The error: Unable to create the symbolic link for \Device\Serial0
The OS: Windows XP
Symptoms: Usually followed by a computer reboot, and a minidump file.
The fix: In my case was to uninstall all serial ports from device manager and let device manager reinstall after scanning for hardware changes.
Thu, Jun 17, 2010
When attempting to view the contents of a Public Folder using Microsoft Outlook 2007, error message “The Operation Failed” is displayed.
For me, this occurred due to the “Default” user having its permissions set to “None”. I elevated the Default user permissions to Reviewer, then users were able to view the folder contents.
Disclaimer: Don’t set permissions to Reviewer if you don’t want people who are considered “Default” users to see the folder’s contents…
Thu, Jun 17, 2010
Today I was forwarded an e-mail non-delivery report (NDR) like this one:
Smith, John Your message wasn’t delivered because of security policies. Microsoft Exchange will not try to redeliver this message for you. Please provide the following diagnostic text to your system administrator.
Or:
[email protected] #550 5.7.1 RESOLVER.RST.NotAuthorized; not authorized ##
The resolution was to grant the appropriate permissions to the user on the mailbox object in Exchange Management Console.
Wed, Jun 16, 2010
Today, a user received error code: 0x8004010f a few minutes after attempting a manual Send/Receive in Outlook 2007. A manual mail profile rebuild solved the issue.
Control Panel -> Mail -> Show Profiles -> Add -> Configure as needed
Wed, Jun 9, 2010
Recently, a co-worker received a customer request to have a “custom away message” in Microsoft Office Communicator 2007.
While this isn’t possible by default, I located a utility posted on Confusedamused which allows you to create customized Presences. These can appear when someone hovers over a user’s name in Communicator, or if Presence/status features are enabled in Microsoft Outlook.
Communicator 2007 Custom Presence Tool
Wed, Jun 9, 2010
After enabling the Out of Office Assistant, a user may report that when anyone e-mails him/her, the correct automatic reply is not sent back. The user may report an old or previous message being sent instead.
This may be because the user set the Out of Office message via Microsoft Outlook 2003 or 2007, but failed to input the message in both the Inside the Organization and Outside the Organization tabs.
Wed, Jun 9, 2010
Below is a script that will import domain users or domain groups into local groups either from the command line or a csv. Enjoy.
#Title: Add-LocalAdmin Script
#Changes: Added "mode", user functionality, and csv input functionality
#Author: send4help.net
#Description: Adds Domain Objects to Local Admin Groups
#Usage: ./add-LocalAdmin.ps1 {Mode:[csv/user/group]} {objectname} {server}
# {objectname}(can be a csv in csv mode)
Wed, Jun 9, 2010
I’m sure everyone has run across their fair share of non-deliverable e-mails generated when an e-mail fails to deliver properly.
AnswersThatWork put together a comprehensive listing of many of the SMTP error codes you may encounter.
Diagnostic information for administrators:
Generating server: MAILSERVER01.USA.domain.com
[email protected]
#550 5.2.3 RESOLVER.RST.SendSizeLimit; message too large for this sender ##
Original message headers:
Received: from mailserver.usa.domain.com ( 11.11.111.111) by
MAILSERVER.USA.domain.com (22.22.22.222) with Microsoft SMTP Server id
Wed, Jun 2, 2010
This will add the registry entry Microsoft suggests to disable IPv6
New-ItemProperty “HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip6\Parameters” -Name “DisabledComponents” -Value 0xffffffff -PropertyType “DWord”