Rule For Forwarding To Internet Address Does Not Work

Monday, November 10, 2008

The Inbox Assistant or Rules Wizard rule for forwarding messages to Internet addresses does not work after upgrading to Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5. The Exchange Server 5.5 "Automatic Replies to the Internet" option may be disabled by default in the Internet Mail Service.
Tips for Solution:

Enable the "Automatic Replies to the Internet" option by performing the following steps:

1. Open the Internet Mail Service object in the Exchange Administrator program.
2. Go to Internet Mail tab.
3. Click the Advanced options button.
4. Clear the checkbox for "Disable Automatic Replies to the Internet."
5. Stop and restart the Internet Mail Service in Control Panel Services.

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The body of the e-mail message appears empty when you open an encrypted or a digitally signed e-mail message in Outlook 2003

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

SYMPTOMS
If you open an encrypted or a digitally signed e-mail message in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, the body of the e-mail message appears to be empty. This problem occurs when you use Outlook 2003 in Cached Exchange Mode. If you use Outlook 2003 in online mode, the content in the body of the e-mail message appears as expected.

CAUSE
This problem may occur if both of the following conditions are true:
• You use the CryptoEx Outlook security add-in program. This third-party software is made by the Glück & Kanja Group. It is used to encrypt or to digitally sign e-mail messages.
• Outlook 2003 is configured to use Cached Exchange Mode.
When the CryptoEx Outlook security add-in program tries to replace the original encrypted or signed e-mail message body with the decrypted content, the call is unsuccessful, and the e-mail message body appears to be empty.

RESOLUTION
This problem was first fixed in a hotfix that is now contained in a service pack. If you installed the latest Microsoft Office 2003 service pack, you do not have to install the hotfix.

Service pack information
This problem is corrected in Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 1.

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Office 2003. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
870924 How to obtain the latest service pack for Office 2003

How to obtain the hotfix
This issue is fixed in the Outlook 2003 Hotfix Package that is dated December 17, 2003. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
830003 Outlook 2003 hotfix package: December 17, 2003

WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, do not use Outlook 2003 in Cached Exchange Mode when you use Outlook 2003 with Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server or with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. To turn off the Cached Exchange Mode feature, follow these steps:
1. Start Outlook 2003.
2. On the Tools menu, click E-mail Accounts.
3. Click View or change existing e-mail accounts, and then click Next.
4. Under the Name column, click the account that you want to modify, and then click Change.
5. Click to clear the Use Cached Exchange Mode check box.
6. Click Next, click OK, and then click Finish.
7. Quit and then restart Outlook 2003.

STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
This problem was first corrected in Office 2003 Service Pack 1.

MORE INFORMATION

For additional information about the standard terminology that is used to describe Microsoft product updates, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
824684 Description of the standard terminology that is used to describe Microsoft software updates

The third-party products that this article discusses are manufactured by companies that are independent of Microsoft. Microsoft makes no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding the performance or reliability of these products.

Spam Blocker For Microsoft Outlook - Do You Really Need It?

Friday, October 10, 2008

Microsoft Outlook is a slightly different product from Outlook Express in terms of email management. Released in versions like Microsoft Outlook 2000 and Microsoft Outlook 2003, the Outlook email programs have had and will continue to have their share of users along with Outlook Express. Considering that spam emails are a constant threat to anyone using e-mail as a form of communication, irrespective of which email program is being used, downloading a spam blocker for Microsoft Outlook becomes all the more significant. But the question is, do you really need to download spam blocker software exclusively for Microsoft Outlook?
Microsoft Outlook comes with an in-built anti-spam, junk email filtering service which uses Microsoft’s SmartScreen Technology. Based on machine-learning Bayesian Technology, the SmartScreen Technology uses probability based algorithms to determine if an email is legitimate or a spam email. The key inputs to the database which helps the SmartScreen Technology detect spam are inputs from thousands of users of Hotmail. The way it works is the moment hotmail users spot a spam email, they are encouraged to report it back to Hotmail. What Hotmail does is feed this data back to Microsoft, which in turn maintains the database for spammers. This database is often referred to by Microsoft’s email products for anti-spamming. The features that come with Microsoft Outlook 2003 to counter spam are as follows
• Junk e-mail filter
• Safe Sender’s list
• Safe Recipients list
• Blocked Sender’s list
• Auto Update
The difference between Microsoft Outlook 2000 and Microsoft Outlook 2003 is that in Outlook 2000 the email user has to create his own spam filter customized to what he needs. Outlook 2003 on the other hand comes with a pre-defined spam filter which combats spam. Though one can customize the degree to which a user wants Outlook 2003 to block spam emails. A brief tutorial in Microsoft Outlook 2003 teaches users exactly how to allocate the degree of spam control for the Outlook inbox. Users are given options between low, high and No Junk email filter. Needless to say, if one wishes to prevent the email inbox from being bombarded by spam, it's wise to choose one of the first two options.
Other features like the "Safe Senders List" allows to define the email addresses who should never be treated as a spam email address. This allows Microsoft Outlook to clear emails coming from these email addresses through the anti-spamming test. Making anti-spamming a two-way traffic, a "Safe Recipients List" also allows users to send emails to addresses or domains without ever having to be in danger of being reported as a spammer.

Outlook Web Access

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Outlook Web Access (OWA) is a webmail service of Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0 and later, originally called Exchange Web Connect (EWC). The web interface of Outlook Web Access resembles the interface in Microsoft Outlook. Outlook Web Access comes as a part of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and previous versions of Exchange.

OWA is used to access e-mail (including support for S/MIME), calendars, contacts, tasks, and other mailbox content when access to the Microsoft Outlook desktop application is unavailable. In the Exchange 2007 release, OWA also offers read-only access to documents stored in Microsoft SharePoint sites and network (UNC) shares. Microsoft provides Outlook Web Access as part of Exchange Server to allow users to connect remotely via a web browser. Some of the functionality in Outlook is also available in this web "look-alike". The most important difference is that Microsoft Outlook allows users to work with e-mail, calendars, etc., even when a network connection is unavailable, whereas OWA requires a network connection to function. OWA can be used from Internet cafes and any other location that provides connectivity to the Web.

Functionality of the OWA is partly bundled with the use of a Microsoft client operating system and the Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE). The OWA interface available in Exchange 2000, Exchange 2003, and Exchange 2007 is available in two flavors. The so-called "Premium" user interface is rendered for Internet Explorer 5 (for the 2000 and 2003 releases) and Internet Explorer 6 SP1 and later for the 2007 release. The so-called "Basic" user interface (UI) is rendered for other browsers. Some functions, such as Search, are not available in the Basic UI. Since there is no current IE installer available for Mac OSX and no official installer at all for Linux, Linux and many Apple users can only use restricted functionality.

The first component to allow client-side scripts to issue HTTP requests (XMLHTTP) was originally written by the Outlook Web Access team. It soon became a part of Internet Explorer 5.0. Renamed XmlHttpRequest and standardized by the World Wide Web Consortium^[1], it has since become one of the cornerstones of the Ajax technology used to build advanced web applications.

Outlook security features

Monday, April 7, 2008

Outlook is designed to help protect your computer from viruses and junk e-mail messages. The following information focuses on the virus protection features in Outlook.

Macro security

Outlook itself cannot detect whether a virus is present. Macro viruses are spread through attachments, not the e-mail message itself. Microsoft Office achieves macro virus protection by using the High macro security setting as the default. With the High setting, you can run only digitally signed macros from trusted sources or macros that you created yourself, as long as the installed add-ins and templates are trusted. Unsigned macros are automatically disabled.

Note Signing a macro is similar to getting a legal document notarized by a legal authority or getting your passport stamped by a government official. Electronic certificates are used to sign the macro code. Certificates are issued by a certificate authority, such as a bank, government, or software company, which should be trusted sources. For example, all macros that are pre-installed with Office are signed by the developers who created them using certificates issued by Microsoft that vouch for their authenticity.

If you change the macro security level to the less secure Medium setting, you automatically receive a warning each time you open a document that contains a macro. You can select an option in the Security Warning dialog box about whether to run the macro. Disable Macros is the default button.

Note If the security setting is set to Low, Outlook will not warn you before running a macro. Therefore, all macros are run automatically without your intervention. Because of the potential security risk, Microsoft does not recommend that you use the Low setting.

source office.microsoft.com