When disabling Cached Exchange Mode always remember to navigate to the mailbox’s OST file and either rename or remove the file from that location. This needs to be done because for some reason Outlook will not switch completely to “Online” mode if it finds the OST file that it was previously using on that profile. I haven’t confirmed this with Microsoft and I am not sure why this happens, but my best guess is that Outlook just starts using the settings saved in the profile since the last time it was closed and maybe it doesn’t refresh its “Should I...
I was going to write an article about authoring your own MMC consoles and I may still do that, however the main reason why I would want to create my own MMC console and lock it down is if I were delegating certain tasks to a junior administrator (like user management in Active Directory).
It turns out that Daniel Petri has already written an excellent article which shows how an administrator can create a “Taskpad” which is essentially a custom MMC console which is locked down to a set of specific administrative tasks. This taskpad can then be used by a...