Changes in Outlook 2003 vs Outlook XP???

[Guest]

I´m planning to buy Sue Mosher´s book "Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003"
together with "Microsoft Outlook Programming, Jumpstart for
Administrators, Developers and Power Users" also by Sue Mosher because
I belive it could be usefull to me in my profession as an IT Systems
Administrator.
I´m familiar with Outlook XP and and Outlook 2000 but have never worked
with Outlook 2003 - are there any big changes or can I buy these books
and still benefit from the knowledge while working in a corporate
environment with Outlook XP?
I´ll be thankfull for any thoghts, tips or ideas.
/Ulf

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

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I´m planning to buy Sue Mosher´s book "Configuring Microsoft Outlook
2003" together with "Microsoft Outlook Programming, Jumpstart for
Administrators, Developers and Power Users" also by Sue Mosher because
I belive it could be usefull to me in my profession as an IT Systems
Administrator.
I´m familiar with Outlook XP and and Outlook 2000 but have never
worked with Outlook 2003 - are there any big changes or can I buy
these books and still benefit from the knowledge while working in a
corporate environment with Outlook XP?
I´ll be thankfull for any thoghts, tips or ideas.
/Ulf

Outlook 2003 is very different indeed, although it has the same basic
functionality of prior versions. I'd recommend anything written by Sue.

 

[Ulf]

Ok...thanks...but do you think that it could be usefull to me in my
daily work as an IT Systems Administrator working in an Outlook XP/2000
environment? Or should I look for litterature written for previous
versions?
Thanks again...

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

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Ok...thanks...but do you think that it could be usefull to me in my
daily work as an IT Systems Administrator working in an Outlook
XP/2000 environment? Or should I look for litterature written for
previous versions?
Thanks again...

Depends on what you know already, I suspect. I had been using/administering
Outlook long before 2003 came out, so I can't tell you much, but if I were
you, I would want to know a lot about what the latest version of *anything*
could do - and I would encourage the company to upgrade everyone to 2003 -
and keep everyone on the same version of all OSes and software.

 

[Ulf]

That´s true yes, and you´re right about one should allways be updated
with the latest knowledgde...well thanks again, and I think I´ll order
those books...
See You
/Ulf

 

[Ulf]

That´s true yes, and you´re right about one should allways be updated
with the latest knowledgde...well thanks again, and I think I´ll order
those books...
See You
/Ulf

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

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That´s true yes, and you´re right about one should allways be updated
with the latest knowledgde...well thanks again, and I think I´ll order
those books...
See You
/Ulf

Good luck and happy reading.

 

[ali.jabari]

Hi,
We are using the Expeditor which is a WorkGroup software. The support
is discontinued over 2 years ago, and we can't contact HP or Lexian for
any formal support request.

The expeditor client is working well under Outlook 98/2K/XP, but since
moving to Outlook2003 I get an strange error while try to drag/drop
documents from one folder to another. It says the document doesn't
exists, which is not true.

That would be great if anyone can help me on this.

Thanks in advance,

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Hi,
We are using the Expeditor which is a WorkGroup software. The support
is discontinued over 2 years ago, and we can't contact HP or Lexian for
any formal support request.

The expeditor client is working well under Outlook 98/2K/XP, but since
moving to Outlook2003 I get an strange error while try to drag/drop
documents from one folder to another. It says the document doesn't
exists, which is not true.

That would be great if anyone can help me on this.

Thanks in advance,

Sorry, can't help you - this isn't an Outlook issue. If you can't get
support on this software, perhaps you need to look into alternatives.....

 

[ali.jabari]

Thanks for the reply,

I suspect one thing regarding the issue and it's the inclusion of
default unicode mode in Outlook2003 along with introduction of new
improved PST data file format. It seems that if somehow we could force
outlook 2003 to work in ANSI mode instead of unicode against Exchange
server, we might have a chance to overcome this issue.

I've explored both Exchange Server 2000 and Outlook 2003 options to see
if I can switch back to ANSI mode, but unfortunately it seems
impossible to do so manually and the mode is being detected
automatically.

Our customers are giving us a hardtime and want to move to Office 2003
and still use their Expeditor software, I really don't know where to
look for as we don't have any access to the source code itself.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

YOu can easily switch back to ansi formatted .pst file. File->New->Data
Management File->Outlook 97-2002 format. Drag and drop the information from
the 2003 formatted .pst to the older format .pst file.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, (e-mail address removed) asked:

| Thanks for the reply,
|
| I suspect one thing regarding the issue and it's the inclusion of
| default unicode mode in Outlook2003 along with introduction of new
| improved PST data file format. It seems that if somehow we could force
| outlook 2003 to work in ANSI mode instead of unicode against Exchange
| server, we might have a chance to overcome this issue.
|
| I've explored both Exchange Server 2000 and Outlook 2003 options to
| see if I can switch back to ANSI mode, but unfortunately it seems
| impossible to do so manually and the mode is being detected
| automatically.
|
| Our customers are giving us a hardtime and want to move to Office 2003
| and still use their Expeditor software, I really don't know where to
| look for as we don't have any access to the source code itself.