Tuesday, October 11, 2005

I was disappointed to learn today that it's not simple—or in many cases not possible—to share mail folders in Outlook 2003 with Exchange server. A document I found on webapps1.housing.umich.edu was very helpful despite seeming to be incorrect. (You cannot actually share the folder called Security in their example.) The document is called "Page 2. Email with Microsoft Outlook 2003." The section is called "Sharing E-Mail Folders with other Users." I found that it's possible to share a mail folder, but only if it's the Inbox folder. Other mail folders cannot be easily shared without copying a .pst file somewhere—icky. We were promised workgroup features in Outlook and Exchange, so I'm extremely disappointed. Regarding yesterday's "you must enter a positive duration" problem, my testing did not come up with anything conclusive, but I think it has something to do with daylight saving time. I suspect that if you schedule a calendar item such that the start time and end time covers the changeover for daylight saving time, you'll *sometimes* get the error message "you must enter a positive duration." I forgot to mention 2 days ago Kristina gave 2 weeks notice that she was leaving our office to stay home to take care of her baby. Did training with Lucia on InDesign.