Exchange Proxy UI + get settings from the server

The “Connection” tab needs reordering as a minimum change.
The first two sections are hardly ever touched (Being “Connection” and “Modem”).
However the “Outlook Anywhere” is used a lot, so that should be the first section.

PS: On the “Microsoft Exchange Proxy Settings” form, we need button under the first textbox “Populate Settings From Mail Server”(or is there a security reason this could not be done).

Figure: Settings are hardly ever touched

Figure: Settings are hardly ever touched

Outlook should warn of deleted emails on the server

Here is my sad story…

  1. Exchange goes corrupt…. be frightened of running out of space with virtualization :-)
  2. We go back to a backup a 3-4 days old :-(
  3. Outlook (the ‘smart’ client) connects…. it sees that the server doesnt have the emails that it has… so it proceeds to quickly and violently delete hundreds of emails, from the last few days.
  4. Everybody is not happy

Why doesn’t Outlook not work better? It could say.

Since you last connected, 356 emails have been deleted from ‘Inbox’ on the server.
Do you want these emails to be deleted on your PC? [DELETE]
Do you want to put your emails onto the server? [UPLOAD]

Is there a downside to this? I can’t think of anything….

(with this feature, outlook would not just be a copy, it could be included into disaster recovery plans)

Refresh Conversation ID after changing the subject

I don’t think subjects should be changed today, because those use the threading in Outlook, the thread is now ruined. However people do, so I wish Outlook gave the functionality to change a subject and then use “Tools | Refresh Conversation ID” to change the Conversation ID.
PS: Better still just refresh the Conversation ID after you change a subject

Figure: Need an option "Tools | Refresh Conversation ID" for use after you change a subject

Figure: Need an option “Tools | Refresh Conversation ID” for use after you change a subject

Check Names Improvement

If I get more than one contacts with the same email address when checking the names, I’d like to know which is in my Local Contacts and which in the Exchange User List. So please add a column to identify this.

For instance, if I know the one in my Local Contacts is the latest and the first one is identified as Local Contacts, I can select it easily without checking details of these two.

Figure: No column identifies where contacts are from

Figure: No column identifies where contacts are from

Outlook Appointments – Make the Reminders Visible and changeable as when you receive them

When you get an appointment in your inbox, they often have a Reminders in them, you can’t see them, but they are there. The main issue is that I don’t want the reminder going off later.

  • Can you make the reminder visible
  • Can you add a button “Accept without reminder”
  • Can you add a button “Accept and edit the reminder”
Figure: The Appointment's reminder information, needs to be visible and changable

Figure: The Appointment’s reminder information, needs to be visible and changable