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This issue originally came up in early 2010, but I was reminded about it the other day when a colleague asked whether the issue still existed or not. I looked back over my blogs and discovered I didn’t write about it the first time around, so … here goes!

This issue only exists with Outlook 2007 on the Enterprise Vault server. It does not exist when Outlook 2003 is installed. I do not know about Outlook 2010 – and that is currently not supported anyway (on the EV server).

With Outlook 2007 installed, if PST migrations are done and/or Vault Cache is enabled for end users then a large number of entries may build up in the registry under the following location:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Catalog

The entries will look something like this:

As you can see from that screenshot I’m getting a...

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Following my earlier blogs about an issue with Enterprise Vault and SSL configured on the Enterprise Vault virtual directory in IIS on the EV server, there is now a post 9.0.3 Client hotfix available to correct the issue.

It’s available as:

* DCOM/HTTP variants

* All supported languages

.. so that should cover all the bases.