David Vielmetter

Tag: exchange

  • Outlook offline address book (OAB) fails to download after Exchange upgrade

    Everything went swimmingly (mostly) performing an upgrade of Exchange 2013 to 2019 except for the OAB on existing Outlook profiles. Oddly enough, reprofiling fixes the issue, but with logs of mapi profiles to configure,n that was not an option. [the issue] Microsoft Outlook (most versions) show the following error when manually attempting to update the…

  • iOS mail app unread message count incorrect

    If you are running iOS 6 on your apple iPhone, iPad or iPod, there can be instances where the mail app icon shows an incorrect number of unread email messages on an exchange activesync account. I’ve had this happen on my iPhone 4S and iPad 2 running iOS 6. Here’s how to fix it. [the…

  • Set Up Exchange Email on your Android device

    Need to know how to add your company/corporate email to your new Android phone or tablet? Here some nicely detailed instructions on how to set it up. I am always walking people through these steps over the phone and without an Android device in front of me this can be tricky. [update] Here are some…

  • Get your Exchange email in Thunderbird

    I found a small java application called DavMail. This tool is essentially an OWA -> IMAP translator. It runs locally on your system and will connect on demand to your OWA account, download messages and deliver them via IMAP to any mail client of your choice. It also proports to translate calendar to CalDav and…

  • Archive your corporate e-mail, it’s the law

    As of December 2006 the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) rules have been amended to require institutions to archive their email and other electronic data so they can present present it as evidence in civil litigation. An entire industry has sprouted up to help companies comply with what is commonly termed eDiscovery law. The…

  • Publish Outlook Web Access (OWA) using ISA 2006

    Want to let your mobile users check their exchange email but keep your server secure? Who doesn’t! ISA 2006 lets you do it and styles up OWA log in page at the same time. Here’s how.

  • Clients get error 0x8004010F from new Exchange Server

    Recently I worked on an Exchange Server 2003 deployment project. After the server was added to the existing Exchange environment, clients kept getting error (0x8004010F): ‘The operation failed. An object could not be found.’ on Outlook. This is how we resolved the issue.

  • Transposing cells in Microsoft Excel

    I work with lots of Log files and lists. I’ve had many situations in which I’ve had to change a list in order to quickly compare, add, or remove entries. The transpose feature in Microsoft Excel was made just for this purpose.

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