Thursday, January 8, 2009

outlook switches

day before y'day, all of a sudden,I was unable to delete my outllook 'Sent Items' folder. And it gave me an ultimate __Microsoft__ error message "You don't have permission to delete.." huhhh, if i don't have the permission to delete my mails, is it that Bill Gates will come and delete my mails :-) . Sys Admin folks did this that and finally said some background work is been done ( ooops outlook does some background work for more than a day :-), may be it has gone for a heavy lunch in the middle of its work, preventing me to delete my mails). Then they reopened outlook with 'cleanfreebusy' switch. I don't know what it does internally, but it solved my problem. These Microsoft guys are good enought to introduce bugs and have restart as the solution for it, aah even this restart don't work at times. I hunted the net and found few more switches like these, which will help us live with this buggy boy.


Command-Line switch Purpose

------------------- ------------------- ------------------- ------------------- /CleanFreeBusy Cleans and regenerates free/busy information.

/Cleanfinders Removes saved searches from the Exchange Server store.

/CleanReminders Cleans and regenerates reminders.

/CleanViews Restores default views.

/CheckClient Prompt for default manager of e-mail, news, and contacts

/Recycle Starts Outlook using an existing Outlook window,if one exists.

/ResetFolders Restores missing folders for the default delivery location.

/ResetOutlookBar Rebuilds the Outlook Bar.

/Nopreview Turns off the Preview Pane and removes the option from the

View Menu.

/CleanSchedPlus Deletes all Schedule+ data (free/busy, permissions, and .CAL file)

from the server and allows the free/busy information from the

Outlook Calendar to be used and viewed by all Schedule+ 1.0 users.

/Safe Launches Outlook without extensions, preview pane or toolbar

customization

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