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April 23, 2009 at 12:07 PM
mdtallon

Outlook Express on desktop logging to Win 2003

by mdtallon . Updated 17 years, 2 months ago

I have Users that are logging to a Win03 server, local profiles. When the Users were added, machines were not added to the domain (that’s how it was explained to me).

Due to “budgetary oncerns”, webmail or Outlook Express are their only options for email (please don’t suggest other email clients).

Brand new Dells, fully patched XP; Users enter OE without a problem and are able to configure accounts and download mail, but when they try to open emails the get “The Address Book failed to load. Outlook Express is incorrectly configured…” This seems to be the error if they have attachments, when they don’t, they seem to get the message “There was an error opening this file”

I am very rusty with admin functions; I’ve tried removing the read-only flag from the wab file (unflagged the whole directory) but I am at a loss. Don’t see a budget in the near future for Outlook… Help!

Also, Windows Live updates have been installed; these can easily be uninstalled if that may be a factor.

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