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Outlook 2003 Also Rules

A little follow-up to the Outlook Rules post , concerning getting rules to fire when you’ve got a wrapped PST store. I had noted in the original post that rules “just worked” in Outlook 2003. Turns out I was partially right. They can work in Outlook 2003,

Named Properties in Exchange 2007 SP2 and Beyond

With the recent Rollup 8 for Service Pack 1, the Exchange team previewed a change designed to reduce the impact of inbound SMTP messages on the named property map for a store. Jason talked about it here . The gist of the change is that before, random

So Long Mapi Editor…And Thanks For All The Fish

I’ve touched on the history of MFCMAPI before . The rebranding of MFCMAPI as MAPI Editor and posting it on the Microsoft Download site back in 2006 served a purpose, one for which at the time there were few alternatives. However, since then, I have taken
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Troubleshooting Outlook Crashes

I recently reviewed an excellent article on troubleshooting Outlook crashes which was just published in the Knowledge Base. While I no longer work in Outlook product support directly, in my role as a Developer Support engineer, I see Outlook crashes all

But I Really Need To Open 500 PSTs!

Today we’re revisiting an issue I first encountered in Outlook 2003. We had a customer, a law firm, who kept all the mail associated with a particular case in a PST. Their users would pass these PSTs around, and depending on their case load, a single

Accepting Appointments With CDO May Break Embedded Message Attachments

This is an issue that has only been reproduced so far with Exchange 2003 , but I wanted to document it here in case anyone else is running in to it. Suppose you have a CDO 1.21 based application which uses GetAssociatedAppointment to accept meeting requests.
 
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