RSS feeds in Outlook 2007

[Tim Anderson]

Can someone explain exactly how this is meant to work?

I use Outlook on several machines linked to the same mailbox on Exchange
Server.

Each machine has its own independent RSS store, installed with IE7.

Say there are 3 machines, a desktop, a laptop, and a tablet PC, all using
the same mailbox and cached Exchange mode.

If each machine has duplicate feeds in its RSS store, does Outlook/Exchange
end up with three copies of each feed?

Are the RSS messages actually copied to the Exchange mailbox, or just linked
from the central store?

Can you disable the RSS folder in Outlook completely?

Something odd is happening. Eg on my desktop I have a ton of feeds in the
Outlook RSS folder, yet if I go to account settings - RSS feeds, the feed
list is empty.

Tim

 

[Steven Jones]

From what i can see the RSS Feeds in Outlook 2007 are stored in Exchange.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Correct, that is the default location. You can move them to a pst though.

 

[Tim Anderson]

From what i can see the RSS Feeds in Outlook 2007 are stored in Exchange.

Thanks.

Any ideas on the other questions?

Tim

 

[Tim Anderson]

Correct, that is the default location. You can move them to a pst though.

That would be the worst of both worlds though. The same machine would store
each feed twice (once in the central store, and once in the PST), and if you
accessed Exchange from another client you wouldn't see the feeds.

Or have I misunderstood?

Tim

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

No, it would be just in the pst, but you would only be able to see them from
one client, or each client would re-download them.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

More generally, RSS feeds are stored in the user's default information store, whether that's an Exchange mailbox, a .pst file, or an Outlook Connector store. If the same mailbox is accessed from three different machines, that's one copy of each RSS feed item, in the mailbox. Administrators can use Group Policy Objects to disable the RSS capability.

You probably should turn off integration of Outlook's feed list with IE7's.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Tim Anderson]

You probably should turn off integration of Outlook's feed list with
IE7's.

That's the curious thing. It is turned off. Yet I have a folder full of RSS
feeds. Some feeds are listed twice, the second with a (1) appended.

I am not convinced this has been properly thought through.

Tim

 

[Patrick Schmid [MVP]]

Do you have one computer that subscribes to these feeds and stores them
in the RSS folder on Exchange?
That would explain where the content comes from.


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[Tim Anderson]

Do you have one computer that subscribes to these feeds and stores them in
the RSS folder on Exchange?
That would explain where the content comes from.

No. I did have a test machine that that subscribes to a few feeds through
IE7, and on this machine I setup out OL 2007 with RSS integration. However
the RSS folder on Exchange now has a long list of feeds which comes from the
common feed store on another machine; yet RSS integration has always been
off on this other machine.

Surely it should be designed so that EITHER the integration with the common
feed store is entirely local; OR it is entirely central and managed by
Exchange. What we seem to have is a curious hybrid.

Tim