Mailing the story:
Godbye Outlook
Last night I opened my laptop and Outlook got mad at me. It went all sorts of crazy, trying to configure itself, not finding insertion points, and internal errors. I closed it down and killed all outlook procs but it still haunted me. Every time I opened a new app Outlook would try to configure itself and fail miserably. So I deleted it and downloaded Thunderbird. I forgot how much I hated Outlook. But now that I had Thunderbird installed, I had to make it work with our Exchange server. I got quite farther than I expected.
[Including read access to Exchange calendar data! - Sander]