Recover Deleted Items is Greyed out

[stompin]

I have just noticed my Recover Deleted Items is Greyed out in all my users' Outlook 2003 clients. The Exchange 2003 Srv has deleted items kept at 30 days so can't understand why this is greyed out.

Any help / advice would be appreciated.

regards
stompin

 

[markdmac]

You need to first click on Deleted Items before that menu choice is live.

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

 

[zbnet]

Have you selected the Deleted Items folder, and then looked?

 

[stompin]

Thanx to both of you, I think my brain went walkies..!

 

[zbnet]

For interest, there is a workstation registry setting called DumpsterAlwaysOn (Google it) that turns on this Deleted Items behaviour for all other folders in the mailbox - so, that would effectively enable it for all folders.

 

[markdmac]

Nice tip zbnet. Here is a script that will set it up.

'==========================================================================
'
' NAME: DumpsterAlwaysOn.vbs
'
' AUTHOR: Mark D. MacLachlan , The Spider's Parlor
' URL: [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.TheSpidersParlor.com[/URL]
' COPYRIGHT (c) 2005 All Rights Reserved
' DATE  : 10/12/2005
'
' COMMENT: 
'
'==========================================================================
on error resume next
Dim path
Set WSHShell = Wscript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
path = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Exchange\Client\Options\"

WSHShell.RegWrite path & "DumpsterAlwaysOn","1","REG_DWORD"

If err then
	msgbox "Error Encountered"
else
	msgbox "Dumpters Allways On Setup Sucessful"
End if

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark