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Outlook Live Meeting Add-in also updated for 64-bit

In a related post to my last one regarding the .83 version of MOC R2 working with 64 bit Outlook, it appears that the Live Meeting Outlook add-in also has 64 bit capability now also.  Thanks to aublumberg for noticing.  Download link is here.

WM 6.1 Outlook Mobile Update for Exchange 2010

I noticed today that even folks “in the know” are having a hard time finding the update to Outlook Mobile that supports some new features of Exchange 2010, so I thought I’d post it.  The update is included in Windows Mobile 6.5 (which I hope to have soon now that a bunch of new devices are out – most likely the HTC Pure, aka Touch Diamond2) but is also available on Windows Mobile 6.1 via download.  Here is the link:  https://update.outlook.com/cabs/OutlookLiveSetup.cab.

For an overview of the new features check out the videos here.  The most noticeable differences are the new view (which includes a conversation view, if you’re into that), and integrated UM playback.  The UM playback is great – no more downloading attachments and playing them in Windows Media anymore.  Everything is integrated right into the message.

Enjoy!

Send/Receive never finishes

Today I finally decided to look into an issue that I'd noticed for some time.  In Outlook 2007 a manual send/receive (F9) would never complete. 

An Exchange task would forever say "Offline address book Connecting to Microsoft Exchange."  When I looked at Outlook's Connection Status the last line is "Synchronizing Views."  I decided to take a look at the IIS logs and found this:

2008-09-03 21:05:52 10.1.1.3 GET /OAB/3ebf24ed-43dc-4a50-a2a9-cc6ef51ebf84/oab.xml - 80 - 74.73.235.66 Microsoft+BITS/7.0 500 19 64 63

Indeed, browsing to that location returns a 500.19 Internal Server Error in IE.  While reviewing the root OAB folder in the file system (C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\ClientAccess\OAB\) I noticed a web.config file.  I checked another Exchange 2007 server and noticed that it did not have a web.config file in that location.  I moved the web.config to another location and that corrected the issue.

On a side note, this also corrects an issue with RSS feeds not updating automatically.