EXCHANGE   Exchange 2013 – Emails sent in TNEF winmail format



Some users notified me that some external recipients could not open sent attachments.
After some tests I realized that the problem only appeared for external contacts.

When sending this email…
Exchange 2013 TNEF Remote Domain 1

to a contact configured in the Active Directory, the Gmail web client showed this:
Exchange 2013 TNEF Remote Domain 3

The same recipient without existing in Active Directory receives the email correctly:
Exchange 2013 TNEF Remote Domain 2

My users notified that … Read more

EXCHANGE   Exchange 2013 – Solved the “Search results limited to 250” bug



As explained in a previous post (Exchange 2013 – Search results limited to 250), there is reported bug in Exchange 2013 that limits the search results to 250.

Microsoft released CU11 (Exchange 2013 – CU 11 released) that was supposed to fix (among others) this bug. Unfortunately, after updating and testing… no success.

I opened a … Read more

EXCHANGE   Exchange – Outlook connection issues after deleting Public Folder



After migrating all my mailboxes, etc… to Exchange 2013, I am in process of uninstalling the legacy Exchange 2010 servers. Some minutes after deleting a public folder some users started to report issues with their Outlook clients… (emails stuck on the outbox, no new emails on the inbox…)

Checking the "Outlook Connection Status" I could see continuous connections and disconnections … Read more

   Outlook – Shared mailbox sent items not saved on the shared mailbox



By design, Outlook saves sent emails from shared mailboxes on the main account sent items folders. The users often find this behaviour annoying and ask for a solution.

Shared mailbox

After sending the message from the shared folder (Test Mail 2), the sent email is saved on the Test Mail 1 sent items folder

Sent items 1

Adding a new DWORD into the registry can … Read more