Monthly Archives: August 2010

OWA signature length issue

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A client  who was changing their email signatures wanted to standardise on the same sigs for Outlook based and OWA users. Then OWA started to complain that the signature was too big. On checking I realised that the default 2007 limit is quite small 4K but that with a registry change it could be increased […]

Images in OWA 2007 signatures

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Outlook web access does not allow the inclusion of images by default. However it is possible to embed the image within the signature. First upload the image you wish to include to a web server and make a note of the full path. ie, http://www.yourdomain.com/images/companylogo.jpg. Then create a new signature in Outlook and ensure the […]

Now you see it Now you don’t ? Outlook continuously prompting to connect to an Exchange 2007 server

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After a recent SBS2008 implementation where the mail and data were coming from and SBS 2003 installation – the annoying popup message Connect to server xxxx.xxx.xx message was displayed for a client with Outlook 2007. The two giveaways in this behaviour 1) it references the external email address of the domain mx  i.e mail.xxx.com where  […]

X ….. 500 marks the spot

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A recent SBS 2003 replacement project lead to a blast from the past. The SBS2003 server had suffered corruption as part of a Dell poweredge hardware issue. It was limping along providing file and mail services and as part of infrastructure improvements planned for the client – it was to be replaced with a virtualised SBS […]

A 64 BIT step backwards

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Been waiting for the Rim update re OUTLOOK  2010 issue. Saw an update this morning and thought – hey this could lift a cold wet August day but no…. When trying to connect my Bold 9000 for synchronisation to Outlook after the update we get the “A 64Bit version of Outlook 2010 has been detected. Before […]