Category: Exchange Server and Email

I had a customer who bought a new laptop – his old system corrected his grammar as he typed a new message, converting lower case ‘i’ to upper case ‘I’ within sentences.

His new system was simply underlining the grammer as incorrect. This should be on by default in Outlook 2007, however if you are experiencing this problem and want Outlook 2007 to correct as you type then have a look at this setting…

Go into Tools Menu, then select Options.

Then click Editor Options

Email Options

Then click Proofing on the left and AutoCorrect Options on the right

Email Options 2

Make sure the checkbox ‘Automatically use suggestions from the spelling checker‘ is checked.

Now you can happily type lower case i and it will autocorrect. Keep in mind that it will also autocorrect any other words it deems incorrect. It always pays to proof your own work before you click the send button.

A customer had an iPhone that was connected via activesync to a Microsoft Exchange 2007 server. Syncing worked perfectly however when entering an appointment into his iPhone it appeared as an hour earlier in his Outlook calendar.  For example he entered an appointment for 2pm and it appeared as 1pm in his Outlook.iPhone Time Zone Support

What turned out to be causing this issue was that the phone was set to a time zone that had daylight savings where the exchange server was set to a timezone that didn’t.

In this case the iPhone was set to “Sydney” – which has daylight savings when the exchange server and outlook were set to “Brisbane” which has no daylight savings.

Making sure these two settings are the same solves the issue and the two calendars come back into sync correctly.