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How To Rebuild Outlook 2011 Database

Thursday, April 18th, 2013

Rebuild the database

  1. Quit all applications.
  2. Hold down the Option key on the keyboard, and then start Outlook 2011.

    Note You can also browse to the Database Utility by opening the Application folder and then opening the Microsoft Office 2011 folder. Open the Office folder, and then double-click Microsoft Database Utility.app.

  3. In the Database Utility window, select the database that you want to maintain, and then click Rebuild.
  4. The Rebuilding Main Identify window will open and show the progress. When the operation is completed, you will receive the message “Your database was rebuilt successfully.”
  5. Click Done.

How to Clean Up Duplicate Contacts in Outlook

Monday, November 5th, 2012

Problem:

Your Outlook contains thousands of contacts and many of them are duplicates.

Solution:

I have used two different utilities to help with this issue.  One is free and one is not.

Free:

ODIR

http://www.vaita.com/ODIR.asp

Paid:

1-Click Duplicate Delete for Outlook

http://www.itsth.de/en/produkte/1-Click-Duplicate-Delete-Outlook.php

Unable to Add to the server junk e-mail lists – Exchange 2007

Friday, July 15th, 2011

Problem:

This message pops up frequently while using Outlook 2007 or Outlook 2010 (probably any version).

Unable to add to the server junk e-mail lists, you are over the size allowed on the server. The Junk e-mail filter on the server will be disabled until your junk email lists have been reduced to the size allowed on the server

Unable to add to the server junk e-mail lists, you are over the size allowed on the server. The Junk e-mail filter on the server will be disabled until your junk email lists have been reduced to the size allowed on the server

More Information:

The problem occurs in either Cached Mode or Online Mode.

The Safe Senders, Safe Recipients, and Blocked Senders lists contain zero items.

The boxes are checked to Trust email from my Contacts and Automatically add People that I email.

Safe Senders List is Blank

Safe Senders List is Blank

If I add an entry to any of the three lists and click apply, the same error message appears stating that the server list is full.  If I log into OWA and check the list, the entry I just added will not appear even though it still appears in the Outlook list.

If I add an entry to any of the three lists from within OWA, the item will appear in Outlook.

If I look at my Outlook Contacts list, I see over 33,000 items and most of them are duplicates of garbage.

33,000 Garbage Contacts from a series of bad syncs

33,000 Garbage Contacts from a series of bad syncs

Solution:

Uncheck the box to stop trusting your contacts list.  This was adding 33,000 entries to your safe senders list which is over the limit.

Clean up your messy contacts list and then check the box again.

Outlook 2010 64 Bit and Adobe Acrobat 9 – Can’t Send Mail

Friday, May 13th, 2011

Run REGEDIT and goto:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail]

Right-click and create a new key called Outlook64Bridge

Then right-click Outlook64Bridge and create two keys under it DLLPath and DLLPathEx

Find the 32 bit version of the file MAPI32.dll and assign the whole qualified pathname to each key, mine were:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Outlook64Bridge\DLLPath

“D:\WINDOWS\system32\mapi32.dll”

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Outlook64Bridge\DLLPathEx

“D:\WINDOWS\system32\mapi32.dll”

Then go back to the root key name and show the default client as Outlook64Bridge

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail

“Outlook64Bridge”

Outlook 2010 Search Public Contacts

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
  1. Switch to Outlook’s Folder List.
  2. Expand Public Folders and find the folder you want indexed.
  3. Right-click the folder and click Add to Favorites….
  4. Set any options or rename the favorite and click the Add button.
  5. Right-click on Public Folders and click Properties for “Public Folders”….
  6. Click the Advanced… button.
  7. Click the Advanced tab.
  8. Check Use Exchange Cached Mode and Download Public Folder Favorites. ****(this is your problem)
  9. Click OK to close the Advanced property sheet.
  10. Click OK to close the Properties property sheet.
  11. Select your favorite folders or otherwise synchronize your client to download all items. This can take quite some time and is not recommended over remote connections.
  12. Download and install Windows Desktop Search if not installed already.
  13. Open the Windows Desktop Search property sheet. You can do this currently in the following ways:
    • Click in the task bar search box, click the MSN logo in the lower-left corner, and click Desktop Options.
    • With Internet Explorer or Windows Explorer, click on the MSN logo on the left side, and click MSN Search Toolbar Options.
  14. Click on the Desktop Search tree node.
  15. Select Custom folders and e-mail locations.
  16. Click the Browse button.
  17. Expand My Email, then Outlook, and check Public Folders.
  18. Click OK to close the Browse dialog.
  19. Optionally, click Rebuild Index to rebuild the index now. This can slow your machine’s performance.
  20. Click OK to close the Desktop Search properties.

You can now force a rebuild of the index or wait a while for the index to get built when your machine is idle. When finished you should be able to find mail, posts, and attachments from any favorites you have selected very quickly.

Also Make sure the user has enough rights to the folder.

Convert EML files to a PST

Friday, April 29th, 2011

open Outlook Express  (Start, Run, msimn.exe)
create a folder in Outlook Express with a unique name
drag all the .eml files into that folder
click File, Export
select the folder to export
this will put the folder in your Outlook using the same foldername  (if the foldername already existed, it would merge the emails which would be bad)
then export from Outlook to PST

Recover OST or Convert OST to PST

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

Problem:

You need to recover some messages from your Outlook OST file.

Solution 1 (Easy):

If you can still open Outlook in Offline mode, you can simply use the export command (File, Import and Export…) to export to a PST.

Solution 2 :

If you have already deleted your Exchange profile from Outlook and you can no longer open the OST file in Outlook you will need to use a recovery tool.  There are many available, including Easy Recovery Professional from Ontrack.  If you do a Google search for it you will mostly find torrent links.  You can pay for it if you follow the link above.

Easy Recovery Professional will scan your OST file for messages and dump them into a PST file at the location you choose.  The process can take several hours depending on the size of your file.

Easy Recovery Professional Converts OST emails to PST

Easy Recovery Professional Converts OST emails to PST

Outlook Express Spell Check Language French

Monday, April 12th, 2010

Problem:

Your Outlook Express spell check is stuck in French so it thinks all your English emails are spelled wrong.

Cause:

Installing Office 2007 breaks the spell check in Outlook Express.  See KB932974 for details from Microsoft.

Solution:

Install this free spell checker to replace the one that Office 2007 ruined:
Spell Checker For OE

How To Sync Exchange Public Contacts with your Mobile Device

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

There is no good direct way to sync Exchange Public Folders with your mobile phone.  However, you can easily sync your personal Contacts folder with your phone using Microsoft Activesync or whatever your phone uses.

So all you need to do is set up a sub-folder in your Contacts and sync your Public Contacts to it.  Then your phone can pick up the contacts from that folder, assuming it is a Blackberry or iPhone.  A Windows Mobile phone using Activesync is not able to see subfolders of your Contacts.  You’ll have to store everything in your main Contacts folder for your phone to see it.

This free Outlook add-in from Code Two will make it all happen.

Spell check broken after upgrading to Office 2007

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Delete the following registry keys:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Resiliencey

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Proofing Tools\1.0\Override\en-US

Also make sure the proofing tools are not listed in the disabled items.