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What’s New & Known Issues
Overall
- Unicode support. Full support of unicode text throughout ERM.
Installation
- MSI Installer. Setup file changed to MSI from EXE.
Mailbox Browser
- Multi-Selection of Resources. ERM supports multi-selection of resources for management and un-management.
Performance Metrics
- Perfmon Counters. Added Exchange Resource Manager counters to the Windows Performance Monitor.
Logging
- Administrative Logging. Administrative logging separated from process logging. Administrative logging configurable in ERM Product Configuration.
- Process Logging. Process logging is two-level hierarchy and configurable in either the Global or Resource Configuration Properties.
- Log Destinations. Destinations for logging now include "None", "File", "Event Log", and "Event Log and File".
- Log Levels. Log level options now include "None", "Errors", "Warnings", "Informational", and "Verbose".
- Log file maintenance. Automatically remove old log files after specified number of days.
Recurring Meetings
- Recurring meetings tab. Recurring meetings tab added to consolidate functionality for recurring meetings.
- Recurring meetings conflict check. Fixed issue where window not checked for conflicts in time zones using GMT minus offset.
- Recurring meeting limits. Accept recurring meetings with limitations based on the span of the meeting (in months), maximum number of conflicts, or maximum percentage of conflicts.
- Instance decline. Response text configurable for declining a single instance of a recurring meeting.
- Truncation of meetings. Truncate recurring meetings based on the conflict check window or the number of months in the future the resource may be scheduled.
Request Processing
- Scheduling Limit. Optionally set a limit on the number of months in the future a resource may be scheduled.
- Remove Message Body. Optionally remove the request body as meeting is placed on the resource calendar.
- Remove Private Sensitivity. Optionally remove the private sensitivity setting from a meeting as it is placed on the resource calendar.
- Remove Attachments. Optionally remove message attachments from meetings as they are placed on the resource calendar.
- Move Meetings to Deleted Items. Optionally move processed meeting requests to the Deleted Items folder.
- Message loop avoidance. Enhanced functionality to detect messages from Postmaster to help avoid message loops.
Macros
- ***New*** Added <%RecurrenceWindowEnd%>. This macro returns the window end date for accepting recurring meetings.
- Added <%MaximumConflictNumber%>. This macro returns the maximum number of conflicts allowed by a resource when scheduling recurring meetings.
- Added <%MaximumConflictPercentage%>. This macro returns the maximum percentage of conflicts allowed by a resource when scheduling recurring meetings.
- Added <%MaximumFutureMonths%>. This macro returns the maximum number of months in the future a resource may be scheduled.
- Added <%AllConflictMeetingsInfo%>. This may be used in a response to a recurring meeting to provide information about all conflicts found.
- Added <%InstanceConflictMeetingsInfo%>. This may be used in a response to a recurring meeting to provide information about all conflicting instances found.
Known Issues and Limitations
Installation
- CDOEX.DLL Version Check. ERM does not currently check to ensure an appropriate baseline version of the CDOEX.DLL is installed on the server. Manually check to ensure version “6.0.5771.3” or later is installed. This version of CDOEX.DLL is included in Exchange 2000 SP3.
Global and Individual Resource Properties
- mailNickname Restriction. Certain characters possibly found within the mailNickname attribute are not supported by ERM. A semicolon (;) in the mailNickname attribute leads to multiple records in the ERM database. Other characters that are not supported in the mailNickname are """, "%", "{", "}", "|", "\", "?", "*", and "=".
- Default Response for Declining Request due to Restriction. The text used by default for declining a meeting request due to a restriction uses the <%ResourceContactEmail%>. This macro uses contact information to populate the addressee of the email link; if this information is not available, the addressee field of the email is not populated.
Message Loops
- "Reply and Delete". Use caution when setting the "Reply and Delete" option for the handling of non-calendar items, because message loops may result if responses are sent to another mailbox that uses an auto-response.
Environment
- ERM requires Exchange 2000 running Service Pack 3 or later. Please contact Simpler-Webb for additional information regarding this limitation.
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