Re: Unicode Mode

From: Warren Guffey (wguffey_at_modernfold.com)
Date: 02/17/05


Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 08:23:11 -0500

The article explains Unicode, its benefits, and how to enforce it but not
how switch back or use non-unicode. I have download the toolbox with the
templates that are mentioned and will experiment.

"Roady [MVP]" <newsgroups_DELETE_@_DELETE_sparnaaij_NO_._SPAM_net> wrote in
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>I think all your questions are answered here;
> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/office/2003/all/reskit/en-us/outb06.mspx
>
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> "Warren Guffey" <wguffey@modernfold.com> schreef in bericht
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>> We are running Outlook 2003 against Exchange 2003 and recently when we
>> have setup new systems or had to recreate profiles we have been getting
>> an error message when they attempt to setup their archive file using the
>> old orginal one. Here is the message (summarized): "Outlook is runnning
>> in Unicode mode against Exchange server and cannot archive items to a
>> non-Unicode Outlook 97-2002 Personal Folders archive file."
>>
>> We followed a standard upgrade path from previous versions of office to
>> the current and the same for Exchange from 5.5 to 2003. From what I have
>> read Unicode mode seems to deal with multilingual (SP?) situations in
>> email, we do not have a need or concern for this ability. What are
>> options for people with existing archive files? I know I can create a new
>> one but then I have to move all of the contents of the original to the
>> new and some of these a pretty large and could take some time. When I
>> check my system settings it indicates that it is running in non-unicode
>> mode, how does this get set? I didn't noticing anything during setup for
>> this option. One user had a new Windows profile created on a system with
>> the same Office install; she had now problems with the archive under the
>> original profile but when we recreated her outlook account it gave her
>> this message. We never reinstalled office at all and this doesn't make
>> sense to me. I can't seem to find any documentation on how to switch from
>> Unicode to non-Unicode.
>>
>> I know this is lengthy but I wanted to give as much info as possible. Any
>> help or advice would be appreciated.
>>
>> Warren
>>
>
>



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