Why Outlook rules copy a message when you asked for it to be moved

By tim, on September 30th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Ever wished computers had a “do what I mean” button?

Here’s a case in point. I use Outlook/Exchange rules to sort email into subfolders. I set up a new rule, and was annoyed to find that while messages were correctly being moved into the selected folder, they were not being deleted from the source

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Apple Snow Leopard and Exchange: the real story

By tim, on August 31st, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Apple’s Snow Leopard (OS 10.6) came out last week, and one of its most hyped features is native support for Microsoft Exchange. Here’s what Apple says:

With Snow Leopard, the Mac is the only computer with built-in support for the latest version of Microsoft Exchange Server. So you can use your Mac

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Google Apps add-on breaks Outlook features in email wars

By tim, on June 17th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Google has released an add-on to Outlook that apparently breaks Outlook search. Google Apps Sync synchronizes Outlook email, calendar and contacts with Google Apps. Google recommends it as a transition tool for people migrating from Exchange, or for people who prefer the Outlook UI. A premium version of Google Apps is required.

Unfortunately it

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Exchange 2007 backup to be fixed at last

By tim, on May 14th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft’s Exchange team is including a VSS plug-in in Exchange 2007 SP2, which means you will be able to backup Exchange on Server 2008 without purchasing a third-party product. Details of how this works are here.

Note that this feature, which was first promised in June 2008, will likely be appearing just before Exchange

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What’s new in Exchange 2010 and Hyper-V R2

By tim, on April 19th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Mark Wilson’s blog has the best summary I’ve seen on what’s coming in Exchange 2010 and what’s new in Hyper-V R2.

The big thing in Hyper-V R2 is live migration. The big thing in Exchange 2010 is, well:

For me, it seems that Exchange 2010 is not a major upgrade – just as 2003

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Fixing the Exchange 2007 quarantine – most obscure Outlook operation ever

By tim, on February 11th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

I’ve been testing Exchange 2007 recently and overall I’m impressed. Smooth and powerful; and the built-in anti-spam is a great improvement on what is in Exchange 2003. One of the features lets you redirect spam to a quarantine mailbox. You know the kind of thing: it’s a junk bucket, and someone gets the job

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The Exchange VSS plug-in for Server 2008 that isn’t (yet)

By tim, on February 8th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

If you install Exchange 2007 on Server 2008, one problem to consider is that the built-in backup is not Exchange-aware. You have to use a third-party backup, or hack in the old ntbackup from Server 2003. Otherwise, Exchange might not be restorable, and won’t truncate its logs after a backup.

In June 2008 Scott

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