Redirector to Maps for O2K broken

[Matt Williamson]

Can anyone else check this and verify please?

I'm running Outlook 2000 (9.0.0.2711)

Steps to duplicate-

Open up any contact from contact manager with a valid address and click the
Map button or select Actions | Display Map of Address.

This used to go through a redirector from Officeupdate.microsoft.com to
Maps.expedia.com, but now it just dumps out to
http://office.microsoft.com/home/default.aspx

I want to make sure it is nothing on this end that is causing it. I've
tested it at a few workstations running NT4 and Windows 2000. That doesn't
make any difference.

TIA

Matt

 

[Matt Williamson]

Gabe-

It looks like MS removed the outlmap.htm redirector from the officeupdate
site. Outlook 2002 probably uses a different link.

I called MS to let them know, but they wanted to charge me $35 for the
privilege so I decided to post here and hope one of the MVP's relays the
message.

Matt

 

[dq]

same here. i tried it several times thinking maybe there was an error and
it seems that something has been changed.

i hope they fix this.

dq

 

[Matt Williamson]

Meanwhile.. back in the bat cave

As opposed to waiting for MS to fix the redirector, the link can be changed
to point to wherever you want it to. I used Mapquest myself.

Here is the reg key that needs to be added to do so..

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Outlook\Options\General]
"MapScriptURL"="www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?address=<0s>&city=<1s>&state=<
2s>&zip=<3s>"

Works like a charm. Thanks to Dave Roberts for figuring this out back in
May.

Matt

 

[Christopher Nini]

I am experiencing this on a PC for a user at my company.
He has Windows 2000/Outlook 2000. It stopped working for
him approximately on 9/8 or 9/9. Our organization is
migrating from WinNT 4.0 to WinXP so we don't have too
many Win2k machines but 2 other PCs with Win2k/O2k are
experiencing the same issue. I am running WinXP/Outlook
2002 and it works just fine. According to MS Knowledge
Base, clicking on Display Map of Address is supposed to
take you to expedia.com. Appears to be a Microsoft
issue....

 

[Troy]

Searching myself on this same subject, I see someone has a
solution...for a novice computer user, I don't know what
to do with the command line provided...copy/paste it
somewhere?

Please provide steps...thank you.

TS in CO

-----Original Message-----
Meanwhile.. back in the bat cave

As opposed to waiting for MS to fix the redirector, the link can be changed
to point to wherever you want it to. I used Mapquest myself.

Here is the reg key that needs to be added to do so..

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0 \Outlook\Options\General]
"MapScriptURL"="www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?

 

[Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]]

It's a registry entry, i.e. the Windows registry. If you're a novice,
best not to mess with the registry, as you can seriously screw up your
operating system with no way to fix it except to completely reinstall
it.

--
Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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In

Searching myself on this same subject, I see someone has a
solution...for a novice computer user, I don't know what
to do with the command line provided...copy/paste it
somewhere?

Please provide steps...thank you.

TS in CO

-----Original Message-----
Meanwhile.. back in the bat cave

As opposed to waiting for MS to fix the redirector, the link can be
changed to point to wherever you want it to. I used Mapquest myself.

Here is the reg key that needs to be added to do so..

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0
\Outlook\Options\General]
"MapScriptURL"="www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?
address=<0s>&city=<1s>&state=< 2s>&zip=<3s>"

Works like a charm. Thanks to Dave Roberts for figuring this out
back in May.

Matt

Gabe-

It looks like MS removed the outlmap.htm redirector from the
officeupdate site. Outlook 2002 probably uses a different link.

I called MS to let them know, but they wanted to charge me $35 for
the privilege so I decided to post here and hope one of the MVP's
relays the message.

Matt



I'm experiencing the same problem with every Outlook 2000
client I have. It works fine with Outlook 2002. I'm
still trying to figure out what happened. Let me know if
you hear anything.

- Gabe
-----Original Message-----
Can anyone else check this and verify please?

I'm running Outlook 2000 (9.0.0.2711)

Steps to duplicate-

Open up any contact from contact manager with a valid address and
click the Map button or select Actions | Display Map of Address.

This used to go through a redirector from
Officeupdate.microsoft.com to Maps.expedia.com, but now it just
dumps out to http://office.microsoft.com/home/default.aspx

I want to make sure it is nothing on this end that is causing it.
I've tested it at a few workstations running NT4 and Windows
2000. That doesn't make any difference.

TIA

Matt


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