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More of a heads up at this point. I ran into an issue with the last round of Windows updates on Server 2008 Enterprise with Outlook 2003. Initially I thought it was the patches for the Office compatibility pack (so you can read the newer files). Removing those did not help. I am trying to isolate it now and will post back this weekend. My leading candidate is the IE patch. What happens is the font in Outlook becomes very blurry and unreadable. Sometimes it is isolated to the screen, sometimes it goes out in the email to clients, sometimes both. Removing all the patches from this week solved the issue for production today. We are in the process of testing with the updated back-end code we use for a letter system for Server 2012 R2 and Office 2013, but it will be a while before it is in production. Figured some other people might have run into this as well. I am leaning to the IE 8 patch right now because we have run into other issues that are similar to this with upgrading to IE 9. Hopefully the support nightmare will end soon.
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Hmmm.... maybe Outlook 2003 is part of the issue
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Time to put those users who are on 2003 into a web interface instead. The new Outlook Web App is very usable.
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@Reid-Cooper said:
@StrongBad said:
Hmmm.... maybe Outlook 2003 is part of the issue
Tee hee.
lol I was thinking the same. Is Office 2003 EOL support this summer too?
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@coliver said:
Time to put those users who are on 2003 into a web interface instead. The new Outlook Web App is very usable.
And way better than Outlook 2003!!
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Yeah - agreed. We are testing with the new Terminal Server, but we have been held up by the developer that was updating the custom letter system they have. It grabs from their custom database and then creates a letter in Word, and then sends it though Outlook, Fax, or prints. I plan to work on migrating to a 100% web based design for the next version. Remove the dependencies on Office all together.
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@Dashrender said:
@Reid-Cooper said:
@StrongBad said:
Hmmm.... maybe Outlook 2003 is part of the issue
Tee hee.
lol I was thinking the same. Is Office 2003 EOL support this summer too?
For Outlook 2003:
- 11/20/2003 - Lifecycle Start Date
- 04/14/2009 - Mainstream Support End Date
- 04/08/2014 - Extended Support End Date
May Outlook 2003 rest in peace!
