Yet Another IT Professional Blog

Recently, one of my users lost all his auto-complete list from his mailbox! For me, this is no big deal as I barely send emails but for our employees who sends / receives hundreds of emails per day, it's a pretty big deal and a very practical feature to have. Outlook will create a little database of the email addresses that you send or receive emails from into a file generically called "Auto-Complete". In the previous versions of the Microsoft Office suite, this file was the famous "NK2" file.

One of our users was having bizarre problems with her account. We tried to troubleshoot to find out what was causing the real issue but nothing was clear. Before I even tell you what the reason was, let me tell you first what the symptoms were. First user reports that she has a warning when she logs onto her computer.   I confirmed that she was getting a Windows 7 balloon warning “ Windows cannot locate the server copy of your roaming profile ”. When you browse Event Viewer , Windows Logs\Application , you should see another error with the error ID 1521 with a description “Windows cannot locate the server copy of your roaming profile and is attempting to log you on with your local profile. Changes to the profile will not be copied to the server when you log off. This error may be caused by network problems or insufficient security rights.” Just these 2 symptoms were indicating a Roaming Profile issue, which makes sense because the user is part of an OU, which roaming...

The default   Calendar   folder in Outlook is created in each Outlook profile. This folder cannot be renamed or deleted. You can create additional calendar folders and these folders can be renamed or deleted. This section includes instructions to share calendar folders that you create. While all these procedures were written based on Microsoft Outlook 2003, they can also be applied to a Microsoft Outlook 2007 or 2010 as the procedures are close enough to use a single guide.    1-  Open Microsoft Outlook 2003 , right click on your “ Mailbox ” and choose “ Properties for Mailbox - …. ” . This will bring the dialog box for “ Outlook Today – [Mailbox – Your Name] Properties ” 2-      Under Permissions tab, click on Add… button and choose the groups or users that you want to give them access to your calendar. Once the users are added to the list, click on the user to highlight it and under permissions, check the Folder Visible checkbox. ...