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Unable to open shortcut - MAPI issues
I'm an administrator for a 60,000 mailbox Exchange organization. We are using EX/DX at one hospital with 1500 users.
Recently upgraded the host server and clients to 4.81.564. Shortcut recovery using OWA is working just fine.
I receive a few call a week where the client just stops opening the shortcut and instead opens a seperate window with the standard "Archived by emailXtract" message.
I remote to the desktop and see it with my own eyes, then check to see if the client is installed and move on to he next steps.
I sign the user off and I sign on, create a new profile and can open my own shortcut messages using their desktop.
Then I add their mailbox in my Outlook on my own desktop and again, successfully open their shortcuts.
I have the user open our OWA site and try opening the shortcut - works fine.
I close out of Outlook and re-run the 4.81.564 client install and use the option to "Repair". Then restart the machine and have the user sign-on. Same thing.
Their profile is not setup to use Exchange Cache Mode.
I'm not sure what else I can do for them.
It happens sporadically throughout the enterprise and doesn't seem to be a GPO interfering but it does seem to be isolated to the user profile on their desktop.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Recently upgraded the host server and clients to 4.81.564. Shortcut recovery using OWA is working just fine.
I receive a few call a week where the client just stops opening the shortcut and instead opens a seperate window with the standard "Archived by emailXtract" message.
I remote to the desktop and see it with my own eyes, then check to see if the client is installed and move on to he next steps.
I sign the user off and I sign on, create a new profile and can open my own shortcut messages using their desktop.
Then I add their mailbox in my Outlook on my own desktop and again, successfully open their shortcuts.
I have the user open our OWA site and try opening the shortcut - works fine.
I close out of Outlook and re-run the 4.81.564 client install and use the option to "Repair". Then restart the machine and have the user sign-on. Same thing.
Their profile is not setup to use Exchange Cache Mode.
I'm not sure what else I can do for them.
It happens sporadically throughout the enterprise and doesn't seem to be a GPO interfering but it does seem to be isolated to the user profile on their desktop.
Any advice would be appreciated.
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RKatwal
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Posted August 4th, 2008 18:00
Outlook has tendency to disable third party add-ins if due to any given reason outlook will crash. This gets controlled using the registry keys for outlook.
If it would be me I would check the disabled add-in's on users desktop. In outlook 2003 you can click on HELP > About Microsoft Office 2003 Outlook > Disabled Items.
If you find EX Add-in there enable it back and restart outlook. I have seen it many times.
There are other things ot be checked as well but I would start from checking disabled items first.
Thanks,
Raj