Most administers will have mixed feelings about another improvement in Outlook: message stores are no longer limited to 2GB. The default will be 20GB, with a practical limit of about 100GB for most users. The actual limit will be 32 terabytes, although few, if any, users have that much hard drive space available to them at this point in time.

To keep up with the latest information about the new version of Outlook, stop by http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol11.htm.

Follow-up to a comment from last week
In our tip last week, we passed along a question from John Code: "On a side, I have not really found a straight answer from anyone why when you key in the Exchange server name that you cannot put in a fully qualified domain name instead of the Exchange server name. I would prefer DNS (by using Internal/External resolution) to resolve the Exchange server name instead."

Aron Feuer tells us he has a solution: If your server's NETBIOS name has a DNS entry, and the DNS suffix for the computer trying to resolve the Exchange server is identical to the server's remaining domain name, the Outlook client will resolve without a hosts file entry. For example, if the Exchange server is called "exchsrvr" and is part of the DNS domain "client.com," then set up the Outlook PC to have a DNS suffix of "client.com," and ensure that there is a public DNS entry for "exchsrvr.client.com."

There ya go. Readers helping readers. That's what it's all about. Well, that and chocolate. -- DG

Diane Poremsky is the president of CDOLive LLC and a Microsoft Outlook MVP. She's coauthor of Word 2002: The Complete Reference (Osborne, 2001) and Beginning Visual Basic 6 Application Development (for Wrox Press). For questions or suggestions for future columns, write her at outlook@cdolive.com.