Archive for April, 2010

Outlook Crashes – Final Word

Published April 18, 2010 Uncategorized Leave a Comment

OK, this will be my last post on this issue.

My last 2 posts talk about a 2nd key Microsoft suggested we use to stop the crashing.

Didn’t work for me. One of my clients had their Outlook profile recreated, and the problems came back, so I did what I wrote up in my Redux posts, and found I had to go back to my original fix.

Here

SBS 2008 R2 or SBS 2010 – Methinks the latter

Published April 3, 2010 Microsoft , SBS , SBS2010 2 Comments

I have no inside information, but just from perusing the interweb when the question came to mind tells me there may never be an R2 of SBS 2008.

Why do I think this?

  • Microsoft has in recent times begun shipping new products more quickly – a la Vista & Windows 7; Server 2008/2008 R2.
  • Server 2008 R2 has been out quite a while already. The least they could have done was provide R2 as a license for the member server (I’ve already got 3 installs working this way with separate licensing). Seems pretty silly that a new purchase of SBS Premium doesn’t get you R2 licensing (making SA kind of a must have, even though we’re left guessing).
  • Exchange 2010 is out now. Why would they pass up the opportunity to release a NEW SBS product vs. R2 with only a new Server code base.
  • Office 2010 is imminent.
  • Eric Ligman makes a passing reference to EBS 2010 in THIS POST about the demise of EBS, insinuating EBS 2010 was the NEXT version of that product, which is/was part of the same family as SBS.

So I’m predicting a Fall release of SBS 2010. Which will be cool.

Come on Microsoft – make an announcement. I promise it won’t stop me from selling SBS 2008 (assuming it’s an ‘in-place’ upgrade :) )

Outlook 2003 & 2007 Crashes – Redux II

Published April 1, 2010 Uncategorized Leave a Comment

In my last post, you may have noticed the key referenced was for Outlook 2007 (I didn’t because I’d fixed all my workstations with the initial key deletion). When I saw that, I messaged the MS tech I was working with on the issue to ask if both 2003 and 2007 were affected, and indeed they are.

Again, the problem seems to be obscure (Microsoft doesn’t even know why it happens at this point), but here’s the ‘official’ answer for 2003:

For Outlook 2003 we just have to create the key under 11.0 instead of 12 .0 so the registry path would be

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Options\Mail

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