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MXSweep Email Security Service Overview
There are five steps to successfully configuring the MXSweep service.
1.Provision of the service via the Partner Portal
2.Create mailboxes on the MXSweep system
3.Change your MX Records
4.Configure your outbound email
5.Lock down your firewall or email server to only allow port 25  connections from MXSweep.
1.Provision of service
Before using the MXSweep hosted service, your details [...]

I am coming across this issue where a folder shows the message count, but the actual folder display is showing nothing. If a resort is done by pressing a column heading, the message in the folder then display.

There is a suggested fix here http://us.generation-nt.com/outlook-2007-inbox-view-does-not-refresh-when-new-mail-received-help-145278971.html
to do with Trust Center Settings and Privacy Options in Word 2007, [...]

Note You must have the appropriate Exchange administrative permissions to do this.

Start Active Directory Users and Computers.
On the View menu, ensure that the Advanced Features check box is selected.
Double-click the user whose mailbox you want to give permissions to.
On the Exchange Advanced tab, click Mailbox Rights.
Click Add, click the user or [...]

Do save having to manually edit and create uniform signature files for users, you can implement this VBS script which gathers information from Active directory about the user and inserts it into the appropriate signature folder on their system. At the bottom you will find the signature.htm and signature.txt files to edit and save
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‘Modify Reg [...]

I recently installed Outlook 2007 on a HyperV Windows 2008 R2 server terminal server talking to Exchange 2010 on another HyperV on the same box.
The server is a Dual Xeon with RAID 10 SAS drives pumping out 800Mb/s throughput yet Outlook 2007 would take about 8 seconds to open. Rubbish!
I found by disabling all add-ins [...]

If setting up a domain using gmail you can copy and paste the below records into the hosts file to save entering each one manually
@                       MX 10 aspmx.l.google.com.
@                       MX 20 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com.
@                       MX 20 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com.
@                       MX 30 aspmx2.googlemail.com.
@                       MX 30 aspmx3.googlemail.com.
@                       MX 30 aspmx4.googlemail.com.
@                       MX 30 aspmx5.googlemail.com.
calendar                CNAME ghs.google.com.
docs                    CNAME ghs.google.com.
gmail                   CNAME ghs.google.com.
groups                  CNAME ghs.google.com.
mail                    A gmail.com
sites                   CNAME ghs.google.com.
video                   CNAME ghs.google.com.

If you have reattached or moved your outlook file you may find that when you type a name in the To.. email address field the contact email address is not found.
This will be because outlook has its address book mapped to an outlook contact list that no longer exists.
In order to remap the address book [...]

To set up your Outlook 2003 client to work with Gmail:

Enable IMAP in Gmail. Don’t forget to click Save Changes when you’re done.
Open Outlook.
Click the Tools menu, and select E-mail Accounts…
Click Add a new e-mail account, then click Next.
Choose IMAP as your server type by clicking the radio button, and click Next.
Fill in all necessary [...]

To set up your Outlook 2007 client to work with Gmail
1. Open Outlook.
2. For new setups, select Do not upgrade.
3. Click Yes.
4. Enter your display name, email address (including ‘@gmail.com’), and password. Google Apps users, enter your full email address, e.g. ‘username@your_domain.com.’
5. Select the ‘Manually configure server settings or additional server types’ checkbox.

6. Select Internet [...]

When you load up Outlook, you might receive the message “Cannot Start Microsoft Office Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook Window”
To solve this issue, simply Go to START –> RUN
Type in dialog box “Outlook.exe /resetnavpane”
Press OK
Outlook Should now load Successfully