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Outlook is a standalone or groupware client for Microsoft Exchange. It is used for Email, contacts, tasks and calendar.

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Change Outlook "reply to" based upon sent address?

We have a shared mailbox on Exchange 2010 that multiple clients access using Outlook 2010. There are multiple distribution lists (that each have multiple email addresses) that point to this single shared mailbox. This was done to enable server-side…
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Preventing 'Reply-All' to Exchange Distribution Groups

This is another question in a short series regarding a challenging Exchange project my co-workers have been asked to implement. (I'm helping even though I'm primarily a Unix guy because I volunteered to learn powershell and implement as much of the…
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Outlook: how do I display the email address in TO:, rather than the account?

I have an exchange mailbox called "Support" with two email addresses: foo@company.com (primary) bar@company.com Mail to both addresses goes to the same inbox correctly and message show as To: Support. if I check the details of the To: field it…
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Users getting 'flooded' with not read notifications (NRNs) for old emails and meeting requests

I'm being placed under quite a lot of pressure from senior management over a relatively trivial issue. Basically the vast majority of users are complaining that they receive not read notifications (NRNs) for old emails and meeting requests in large…
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Converting a Maildir to a PST

Does anyone know of any solutions to convert a Maildir to a PST in linux? I'm able to use a program in Windows called Aid4Mail, but that requires me to pull the Maildir down from the server. I've got a bunch of users' boxes to convert, so that route…
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Outlook 2003 (with Exchange 2007) error: You cannot respond to a meeting without an Organizer

The company recently upgraded to Exchange 2007. Since the upgrade users who are still on Outlook 2003 (SP3) get the following error for some meeting requests: You cannot respond to a meeting without an organizer. You must add an Organizer field to…
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How do you persuade users to abandon their personal folders?

Towards the end of last year we started using Mimecast services, in particular their cloud-based e-mail archiving. Since then we’ve been rolling out the Mimecast Services for Outlook (MSO) add-in. We’ve informed the users that we will be give them…
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How do you force Outlook 2007 to re-index it's seach on Windows XP SP 3?

So I have a Windows XP SP 3 machine which is running Outlook 2007. When I search in Outlook for an email that exists using a basic keyword, like say "MySQL", I get no results. However, Outlook gives me the following message: Search results may be…
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Open Source company grade alternative to Outlook?

This is not for me personally but for everyone searching this in a search engine, so this is a community wiki question. This question is based on this answer in which he stands that Mozilla Thunderbird is a alternative for Outlook. While Thunderbird…
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Write-protect Outlook PST file

I am looking for a way to write-protect Outlook PST files, so that one cannot accidentally delete mails from or add mails to the PST file. The file is an archive and shall be accessible read-only from Outlook. Simply write-protecting the file on…
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Outlook still connects to on-premise Exchange after migration

After migrating to Office 365, our Outlook clients in the office still connect to the on-premise exchange. Mobile and remote clients already work fine. What's going on? How do I fix this?
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Outlook refusing to display HTTPS images from server using internally-signed cert

We are currently transitioning our site to use HTTPS everywhere, and this includes the emails that we send to customers. On our internal testing environments, we are using IIS with SSL certificates signed by our own company-internal CA. This CA is…
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Force outlook to refresh/update calender more often?

I work as a sys-admin at a lawyer office. They have a lot of meetings and their schedule is very important to them. Outlook 2007 does a fine job. The server is Windows Server 2003 running Exchange 2003. The problems are with the secretaries, who…
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Is the Outlook OST cache file encrypted?

Is the OST cache file created by Outlook encrypted? I understand that Outlook won't open the file unless it can connect to the user's Exchange account, but I'm wondering if there's a possibility that 3rd-party tools would be able to sift through it…
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Outlook sets wrong "Date" header

When sending new emails, the date header is not set in UTC +0100. Problem occurs on every client (WTSx5) and with different Users. The dateheader: Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 09:10:05 +0000 To the environment: The PDC is an Windows SBS 2011 Standard SP1…
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