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finally updating office 2003 for the staff at least first.


Trialling office 2010 with some staff before we roll it out to everyone.

I can see there's going to be some problems with outlook.

 

Everyone has problems with shared calendars at first, showing busy instead of the actual information. Maybe this is because the server is still exchange 2003. Deleting the shared calendars and re-adding seems to fix this.

 

A person with his own contacts as well as the global address book. can't forward messages to his own contacts, neither check names or the "to:" button on mails where you can change the contacts list knows about these other contacts even when they show up straight away when you go in the contacts in the main navigation folder list. We seem to have fixed this by changing the order of which contacts are checked first.

 

A person's outlook has some problem with excel documents.

 

A couple of people have reported some problem with emails not being sent.

 

 

The nm has a problem where 2 emails are stuck in outbox and gets the error don't have appropriate permissions to send (0x80070005). Apparently the fix for this is to delete the mail connection and recreate it.

 

 

I fear there's going to be a lot of "hmm that's strange, I'll look into it" when we roll it out to 200 users.:(

Edited by browolf

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FN-GM

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Our 1,500 users don't have these issues. We use Exchange 2010. You should seriously consider upgrading Exchange 2003 support end isn't that far away. You won't get any security updates after that.
browolf

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Our 1' date='500 users don't have these issues. We use Exchange 2010. You should seriously consider upgrading Exchange 2003 support end isn't that far away. You won't get any security updates after that.[/quote']

 

Well that conundrum is up in the air at the moment. The server is out of warranty and reboots itself every few days. People, not me, are deciding whether to spend the money getting a new server/exchange or outsource email to county's own system that the pupils are using.

FN-GM

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Our you could use live@edu so you dont have to look after it...
andyturpie

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Seriously consider a live@edu/outlook 2010 setup. We have never looked back since.

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