I’ve Made A Huge Mistake

One way to schedule resources in Exchange 2003 is by using Direct Booking.

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/02/22/420275.aspx

In Exchange 2007/2010 the resources are now actually special mailbox types combined with the Availability Service too book resources.

If you use Outlook 2000/2002/2003/2007 with Exchange 2003 you have no issues doing Direct Booking as stated here.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/291616

What if you are on Outlook 2010 and Exchange 2003? The Outlook team assumes you are using Exchange 2007/2010 so direct booking is not enabled by default in the Outlook 2010 client. If a user tries to use Direct Booking as in previous versions of Outlook they will get a bounce back message saying the resource was not booked properly. Clearly confusing to the end user.

The fix, enable the Direct Booking feature in Outlook 2010. It will now work like previous versions of Outlook.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/982774

Just to clarify Outlook archives items based on modified time not actually sent or received. Ok so what makes an item “modified”? A few things, Forwarding, Replying, Replying All, Editing and Saving, Moving or Copying. Hopefully this solves some mystery around why that was or was not archived.

http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;197981&x=11&y=11

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/295657

Who wants to see how Outlook 2010 works with Exchange 2010? Ok that’s just me and a few other really Exchange nerdy people. What about the rest of you, just to see how Word looks? You can still sign up for the Technical Preview that should be out July.

https://microsoft.crgevents.com/Office2010TheMovie/Content/Default.aspx?p=Home&
If you went to TechEd this year you go to the front of the line for this preview, horray. Log in to the TechEd site, click on Special Offers and there is a 1 click sign up for it. It’s that easy. Until next time.