Blog entries tagged email

Outlook 2007 Reminder not Working

Meraj Khalid — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:09:56 +0100

Below are instructions that might help you to resolve outlook reminder pop up problems.

As Microsoft already defined a normal procedure to resolve this issue but in some situations this solution doesn’t work so probably follow Procedure two which I am going to define in this article.

Please first check the basic configuration of the Outlook.

Please check whether the Display the reminRead More...

IE7 and IE8 - self signed SSL certificate not trusted?

Tom Finnis — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:00:00 +0100

Although proper SSL certificates from providers such as Digicert and Verisign have become much cheaper nowadays there are still many occasions when you might prefer to just use a self signed certificate. One of the most common occurences of this is with SBS server, to provide SSL secured web services such as OWA and RPC over HTTP. However the certificate warning you get everytime you open the web site is annoying and maybe confusing for less experienced users. In older versions of IE you coulRead More...

Authenticated and anonymous SMTP relays in Exchange 2007

Tom Finnis — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:00:00 +0100

Petri have just published my latest guide which shows you how to setup authenticated and anonymous SMTP relay services on an Exchange 2007 server.

You can view the article here

Standardised email signatures in Microsoft Exchange

Mustafa Suleman — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:00:00 +0100

Being one for detail I'm amazed every time I receive emails from different users from the same organisation but with differing signatures. Most of these emails come from small to medium businesses with some really slick marketing in general, in fact one could relate it to somebody wearing a very sharp evening suit with a pair of white sport socks!

Microsoft seem to have omitted this essential feature which has prompted a host of third party applications available in the market plaRead More...

Public Folders on Windows Mobile & Blackberry

Tom Finnis — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0100

This is a subject I haven't looked at for some time, maybe surprisingly its something we don't get asked about all that often. A typical scenario might be where a company has an Exchange Calendar Public Folder containing details of company events, important dates and so on. They want their mobile users to be able to view this calendar on their Blackberrys or Windows Mobile phones so how do they go about it?

The short answer I discovered at the time was that they can't Read More...

Exchange 2007 catchall email mailboxes

Tom Finnis — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0100

I'm not a fan of catchall mailboxes, they are a legacy of POP mail systems and getting Exchange to do it has always been a bodge. However the need arose recently with a client we migrated to SBS2008 so I decided to see what the options are for doing it in Exchange 2007.

A quick web search will probably turn up several sites explaining how to use transport rules to achieve a catchall mailbox, and they do make it very easy. Unfortunately there is one major drawback, the required transportRead More...