Outlook 2007 Service Pack 2 issues

So we just had a very interesting outlook issue that it took a while to find the answer to. We noticed that we were unable to expand distribution groups to there individual email names. Then we noticed that we couldn't add accounts to our outllok clients. After more troubleshooting we found that it was only effecting computers with outlook 2007 service pack 2. Once we narrowed down the issue I started to do some reasearch. And I came across the following KB article from Microsoft: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969519/. the article explained all of the errors that we were having. We used method 2 to modify the exchange server registry and everything went back to working correctly. Apparently the root of the problem was the exchange server set to use DSProxt instead of the Referal service, and after Outlook 2007 service pack 2 it can no longer use the DSProxy. Well I am ust glad we found the error. It took a while so I thought I would add another link to the solution.

Another Test Passed

A few months ago I was given the opportunity to take a free version of a new type of Microsoft test. In return I received three free test vouchers. So I decided to start working on getting my Server 2008 certifications. And here are the results of my first test:

So I have added another certification. I am hoping with our current migration to Server 2008 and Hyper-V that I will be able to get a lot of experience working in Server 2008.

A Few Solutions to Recent Problems

So I have had a couple strange problems recently that I thought I would post the solution to. I had several computers that wouldn't install automatic updates after XP service pack 3 was applied. I found that the way to solve this was to re register a dll file. If you just paste this: 'regsvr32 wups2.dll' in the run coomand box (start->run), everything then works great with automatic updates.

The other problem I had was with SharePoint v3. I set up a new SharePoint server for the company I am now working for. I setup a few simple things and was ready to start granting access to the main site. When I tried to add users or groups from active directory, I got the following error code: Operation aborted (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80004004 (E_ABORT)). I search for quite some time and tried many things but none of the solutions seemed to work. Then I came across this post: http://prequest01.wordpress.com/2008/11/27/unable-to-add-active-directory-users-to-the-sharepoint-groups/ . It solved my problem right away. I am not sure why this option was checked on the SQL server and I hope it does not crash any of our other database apps. It is unfortunate the Microsoft caused SharePoint to produce errors when inserting into the database.