Thursday, March 24, 2005

Exchange/ Outlook Rules Handling

For current (non-Exchanged) Outlook users that is getting onto Exchange, beware!
Exchange/ Outlook rules handling can bite you in many ways.

Before you proceed, export all your current rules into a file.
You will need it!

Read the following article to have a better idea about Exchange server-based and client-based rules
http://www.slipstick.com/rules/serverbased.htm

This talks about the Exchange rules storage limit of 32K:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/241325

Some workarounds for this 32K storage limit problem
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=886616

For the advanced,
Bruse Heimbigner has a suggestion of using some programming technique to workaround the 32K storage limit problem:
http://blogs.msdn.com/adioltean/archive/2004/11/18/259448.aspx
http://www.google.com/search?q=RULE.DLL

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