Outlook 2003 and exchange 2010 – enabling encryption – where was that GPO and other issues

By now you’ve noticed that Outlook 2003 doesn’t do encryption out of the box, and you KNOW there’s a better way of doing this than touching every desktop by hand – here it is:

KB2006508 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2006508 talks you through how to build the GPO for Outlook 2003 and 2007

 

While were talking about Outlook not connecting – KB924625 mentions a number of issues you may face troubleshooting Outlook connecting to 2007/2010

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924625

 

While were talking Outlook and Exchange two articles are also super interesting:

Common Client Access Considerations for Outlook 2003 and Exchange 2010 http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/04/23/454711.aspx

and

Understanding RPC Client Access
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee332317.aspx

 

And while were talking about clients and what they’re doing:

Exchange Server User Monitor

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=9a49c22e-e0c7-4b7c-acef-729d48af7bc9

 

 

 

While there’s plenty more material out there, I wanted to put a marker in the ground and start somewhere – I’m hoping I’ll update this post as I dig up more.

Nic