Comments on: Office 2007 SP2 Available Today- Good Fixes For All

By: iFloh

iFloh — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:02:01 +0000

To my disguise the SP2 crashed my Outlook. Since the update (this morning) Outlook tries to open, I can see how the window generates just before it terminates with the following message:

Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook Windows<<<

By: Gianni

Gianni — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:34:00 +0000

just to track my previous post ….

By: Gianni

Gianni — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:32:30 +0000

I have the same problem. Even if I click preview button nothing appear! Frustrating! Any news?

By: greg

greg — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:39:06 +0000

Do you know if it’s possible to download et install only Sp2 components for Outlook 2007 Enterprise please?

Regards

By: lbong

lbong — Fri, 08 May 2009 04:24:35 +0000

Hi,

I had the same problem as Frank with the Global Address Book issue after office 2007 SP2 is installed. After some investigation one user cannot even create new profile, as described by SimbaK2k. The kb article
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;969519 method 2 maybe a possible solution, but I cannot reboot my exchange server for the moment.

I lookup at Exchange Team blog and found this archive http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2005/11/04/413669.aspx . I came to realized after Exchange 2003 SP2 onwards, Microsoft change the DSProxy behaviour. The Outlook client 2003 SP 2 onwards will always ask Exchange for the GC, and Exchange will try to point to the GC that it is using. For some reason Outlook 2007 SP 2 just cannot locate the GC for some reasons. This problem will occur when you have a site with multiple domains and multiple GC, or even GC at another site.

Out of desperation I found this kb article, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319206/EN-US/ . What this kb article do is to set Outlook to look for its own GC, instead of asking Exchange which GC to use. I set Outlook to look for the “Closest GC”. And now Outlook 2007 SP2 can connect to the Directory service.

However this is just a workaround. It is not possible to change all 1000 users on my site. I will still explore the kb969519 the method 2, configuring the RFR service, once I can get a downtime for my Exchange server.

By: Kenny

Kenny — Wed, 06 May 2009 07:32:33 +0000

I had the same problem as Frank with the Global Address Book information issue on our company exchange email. We had to roll all our Outook 2007 back from SP2. In addition, on my personal machine at home, Outlook 2007 crashed the day after I installed SP2. All I was running from my home via Outlook was Gmail and hotmail. Never a problem before. After running the command line uninstall, all is good. So much for my hopes for a speedier Outlook……….*sigh*

By: SimbaK2K

SimbaK2K — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:03:07 +0000

Possible Solutions :)

http://techblogogy.net/index.php/2009/05/office-2007-service-pack-2-the-gift-that-keeps-giving/

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;969519

I’ve tried method 4 but haven’t had any luck yet and I don’t really want to try the other methods just yet as it requires a reboot of the exchange server so will leave that for now. But good luck!

By: jk2

jk2 — Tue, 05 May 2009 10:00:10 +0000

We have similar problems using Exchange 2003. But it is also reported with Exch.2007:
http://forums.techarena.in/office-update-service/1171090.htm

By: Nathan

Nathan — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:02:54 +0000

Any fix for SP2 yet??? I can’t print, make changes to my calendar, etc etc…. this is BS..

By: Rob Schneider

Rob Schneider — Sun, 03 May 2009 07:28:42 +0000

With SP2, OneNote 2007 now crashes and is unusable. Sigh.

By: tcv

tcv — Fri, 01 May 2009 02:56:30 +0000

I checked the workstations on which I downloaded and installed Office 2007 SP2. No problems. They can access the Global Address List without issue and they report good performance. Hmmm…

By: Chuba

Chuba — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:30:57 +0000

Wow! Today (afte SP2) I had Outlook crash the first time in years. I suppose “Fewer crashes” is not for me, then :-(

By: Chris Haaker

Chris Haaker — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:15:44 +0000

I havent seen any issues here, either from users in Online or Offline (Cached) mode. Rebooting after installing directly and then letting Outlook rebuild the .ost if you are in offline mode is key.

By: Daniel Blois

Daniel Blois — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:28:47 +0000

I had the same issue with My outlook being seen as Offline when I installed the update. Look at your computers internet filter. That was the culprit here. It was blocking my connection. Call up your internet filter company to work on the issue.

By: David Mercer UK

David Mercer UK — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:20:10 +0000

I have noticed the desktop alerts have stopped working! Even if you go into the settings and hit the preview button nothing happens!

By: tcv

tcv — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:11:47 +0000

Guys,

What version(s) of Exchnage? 2000? 2003? 2007?

I’ve deployed it on a couple of workstations and haven’t heard complaints, but the company in which I deployed it generally don’t use the gab for some reason.

Tcv