The names of the folders can be changed at any time, at your discretion, from your client program.
Some clients (for example, Outlook 2000 or older) do not allow the names of certain standard folders (for example, the Inbox) to be changed, but this is a client restriction and not an intrinsic limitation of Exchange. In these cases, you must use a different client (such as the older Exchange client) to modify the folder names.
Outlook 2002 clients can run a command line switch to rename the default folders to the language of the client. To do this, click Start, click Run, and then type Outlook.exe /resetfoldernames. Outlook will start normally and the default folder names will be in the language of the client.
With Outlook 2002 and the CIW or CMW you might want to reset folder names for all users when you deploy Outlook to synchronize users' folder names to the User Interface Language of their version of Outlook. This could be useful, for example, if a corporate-wide process has initialized new mailboxes before new users have started Outlook for the first time. In this case, the mailboxes will end up with default folders in the language of the server. (Note that users can, instead, specify the /resetfoldernames option on the Outlook.exe command line to synchronize the folder names on their computer.)
To reset folder names when deploying Outlook, perform the following steps:
- In the Custom Installation Wizard, go to the Add/Remove Registry Entries page.
- Click Add to add a registry entry for ResetFolderNames.
- On the Add/Modify Registry Entry page, select or type the following:
- Under Root:, click to select HKEY_CURRENT_USER.
- Under Data type:, click to select Dword.
- In the Key: field, type Software/Microsoft/Office/10.0/Outlook/Setup.
- In the Value name: field, type ResetFolderNames.
- In the Value data: field, type 1.
Any non-zero value will cause Outlook to synchronize the user's folder names to the User Interface Language of Outlook.
- Click OK to save the entry.