Channel 9 - Discussions by rjcampbell

Tech Off - Two burning questions: Outlook 2003 & Critical Updates

rjcampbell — Mon, 03 May 2004 14:37:15 GMT

I could try rebuilding the profiles. What I was hoping for was that some knowledgeable Microsoftie would know the answer. Channel 9 opened with a lot of fanfare in the technical press and I was hoping it would live up to its hype.

I have 20 years of technical experience and I have Googled this question six ways to Sunday. I've searched the MS knowledge base. I've played with the cache mode. As a MS VAR we even have special 800 numbers and userids. But this could not be qualified as a "server down" situation by any stretch of the imagination. I'm not asking anyone to do my work for me but I have yet to see any of the much vaunted "interaction with our customers".

Microsoft: I'm not impressed, only as frustrated as I was before.

Tech Off - Two burning questions: Outlook 2003 & Critical Updates

rjcampbell — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 20:10:45 GMT

One installation is a mixture. One is not: they upgraded all Outlook installations from 2002 to 2003.

On the criticals, yes, it's Dells. The latest one was just this month: a video driver, I believe.

Tech Off - Two burning questions: Outlook 2003 & Critical Updates

rjcampbell — Thu, 29 Apr 2004 14:54:35 GMT

Susan, I know that the free/busy information automatically publishes with Outlook 2002 clients. But I am saying that it does not automatically publish with Outlook 2003 clients. We have two installations with this exact configuration (Exchange 2000 running on a SBS 2k server) and neither one publishes free/busy info for Outlook 2003 clients.

And yes, I have seen driver updates show up in critical updates on occasion. I was wondering why this happens.

RJ (dudette)

Tech Off - Two burning questions: Outlook 2003 & Critical Updates

rjcampbell — Wed, 28 Apr 2004 20:51:48 GMT

1. We run SBS 2000 server with Exchange Server 2000 and Outlook 2003 clients. Even though we specifically publish our free/busy schedule under Calendar Options to a folder on the server, the free/busy info does not show up when I go into Calendar->Actions->View Group Schedules. How do we get the free/busy info to publish in Outlook 2003?

2. I check for Windows critical updates periodically even though you advertise that you only publish once per month. (Sometimes there are out of cycle updates). Sometimes a driver update shows up in critical updates. If I choose not to update the driver, and check again the next day, the driver update does not show up in Critical updates. What's up with that? (I don't necessarily trust driver updates since I saw Dell workstations show a HP Server hard drive controller update as critical, among other things.)

Thank you!