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Question: Can I automatically suspend the Exchange Server (i.e., programming it to shut down) so that I can take a backup? I am using ARCserver to back up the server.

Question: How do I know (with ASP) if the browser is a phone or a personal digital assistant? Answer: HTTP_USER_AGENT is really the only way that we have to identify

Question: Why do I get the error message “Could not create a new session because the file wasn’t found” when I try to start a new emulator session? Answer: Be

Question: Once end users have created contacts, how do they export them to their home computers or laptops? Answer: I assume you’re looking for a simple—if inelegant—way to just “floppy

Question: Can I run a program/process/rule to prune the sent items and/or deleted items folder for users? Answer: You could use either ExMerge or Mailbox Manager to do that. ExMerge

Question: How do I set up offline public folders that are synchronized on a laptop that runs Outlook 98 connecting to Exchange 5.5? Answer: Have the users who want to

Question: Do you know of any app or configuration within Outlook 2000 that can check a user`s Exchange mailbox without having Outlook itself open? Answer: Sorry, no. There are at

Question: I have Outlook 2000 set up to talk to an Exchange Server, and have added my POP3 email account to Outlook’s profile. How can I compose a new message

Question: Does AutoAttachment work only with certain versions of Outlook?I have Outlook 97 and it doesn’t have Tools/Macro. :-( Answer: Yes, the VBA capabilities were added in Outlook 2000. Sorry.