Downloads Microsoft Exchange PST Capture

PST Capture is used to discover and import Outlook Personal Folder (.pst) File Format files into Exchange Server and Exchange Online.

PST Capture helps an organization that wishes to gain more control over their email data repositories by placing them into Exchange. By optionally installing PST Capture Agents on target machines, administrators can determine where .pst files are located and who their file owner is via the PST Capture Console.

Administrators can import .pst files via Import Lists to Exchange Server or Exchange Online. Data can be directly imported into the primary mailbox or associated archive mailbox.

Download: Microsoft Exchange PST Capture
View: Microsoft Exchange PST Capture Documentation

Tip!
After an administrator has freed the corporate environment from pst-files, it is highly recommended to disable the client usage of pst-files in your network via Group Policies.

Miscellaneous-> PST Settings-> Prevent users from adding PSTs to Outlook profiles and/or prevent using Sharing-Exclusive PSTs

News Beta testing for Office 15 has started

This week, a select group of testers were granted access to the Office 15 Technical Preview build. As this program is under a non-disclosure agreement, nothing can be shared about how it has progressed from previous leaks and screenshots which were published.

The current “Office 15” codename encompasses the entire Office Family which is; Office, Office 365, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, Project, and Visio.

While the current builds have only been made available to a select group of testers, you can expect a public beta later this summer.

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News Exchange 2007 SP3 Rollup 6

Update Rollup 6 for Exchange 2007 Service Pack 3 is now available for direct download (see below for links). Expect it to become available via Microsoft Update on October 25.

It includes 21 new fixes. The Exchange Team would like to highlight the following ones (some KB articles might not yet be available in your region);

  • DST Cadence Release for Dec 2011 – Exchange 2007
  • KB22656040 An Exchange Server 2007 Client Access server may respond slowly or stop responding when users try to synchronize the Exchange ActiveSync devices with their mailboxes
  • KB2498852 “0×80041606″ error message when you perform a prefix search by using Outlook in online mode in an Exchange Server 2007 environment
  • KB22653334 The reseed process is unsuccessful on the SCR passive node when the circular logging feature is enabled in an Exchange Server 2007 environment
  • KB22617784 Journal reports are expired or lost when the Microsoft Exchange Transport service is restarted in an Exchange Server 2007 environment
  • KB2289607 The week numbers displayed in OWA do not match the week numbers displayed in Outlook for English users and French users in an Exchange Server 2007 environment

No expected release date for the next update rollup has been made known yet.

Download: Exchange 2007 SP3 Rollup 6
View: Description of Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3

HowTo Save e-mail messages as pdf-file

Since Office 2007, Word, Excel and PowerPoint files can be saved directly as pdf-files. Sadly, this option is not available in Outlook 2007 or Outlook 2010. There are of course alternatives such as installing a pdf-printer, using Adobe Acrobat or a 3rd party add-in such as SaveAsPDF by Sperry Software.

Another way is to use the VBA macro in this guide which uses Word’s capabilities to save documents in the pdf-format. With the code provided and easy to follow instructions, it offers a great alternative if you only occasionally need to save messages in the pdf-format or when you are in an environment where you cannot install software yourself.

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News Facebook Provider update for Social Connector

An update is available for the Facebook Provider for the Outlook Social Connector. This updates the Facebook Provider to version 14.0.6114.5003.

No change log has been made available but the issue of not being able to directly add someone to Facebook via the Social Connector in Outlook is still there (leads to a 404 page). However, this is also more of an issue with the Facebook website than with the Outlook Social Connector as Facebook needs to process these URLs and send out the invite.

Update: The Outlook Team has made known that the new Facebook Provider supports secure HTTPS connections. An upgrade notification will also be shown in the People Pane later this month when you haven’t updated yet.

Download: Microsoft Outlook Social Connector Provider for Facebook

News Junk E-mail Filter updates for January 2012

New Junk E-mail Filter definitions have been made available for Outlook 2003, Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010.

Download: Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Junk Email Filter (KB2597098)
Download: Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Junk Email Filter (KB2596686)
Download: Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2010 Junk Email Filter (KB982726)

If you have Microsoft Update configured to also update other Microsoft applications, then this update will also also be offered via Microsoft Update or has already been updated automatically for you.

HowTo Printing a yearly calendar with Holidays and Birthdays

When you look at the printing options in Outlook, you’ll find that there is no Calendar Style a yearly calendar. Microsoft has published several yearly calendar templates for Word, Excel and PowerPoint but these are all static and thus do not contain any key dates that you have stored in Outlook such as Holidays, Birthdays and Anniversaries.

Outlook itself can only print up to monthly calendars and while you could print multiple months on a single sheet of paper, they are still not very attractive to look at for an entire year.

A solution would be to use the Calendar Printing Assistant which is a free program from Microsoft which supports Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010. It contains various, visually appealing, Yearly Calendar templates which can be customized and include information that you’ve stored in Outlook.

This guide provides instructions on how to print a yearly calendar with key dates such as Holidays and Birthdays and also contains exclusive templates to further improve the printing output.

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