Error message in Communicator 2007 if the Outlook profile file name contains non-English characters: "There was a problem connecting to Microsoft Office Outlook"

If the Outlook profile file name contains non-English characters, you may receive the following error message in Microsoft Office Communicator 2007:

Communicator uses MAPI to retrieve the Outlook profile file name. MAPI returns this double-byte character set (DBCS) profile file name as an ANSI string. Communicator treats the ANSI string as UTF8 format and converts the string to Unicode. However, Communicator does not check locale settings and does not call the MultiByteToWideChar function to convert the DBCS file name to a correct Unicode format.

To resolve this problem, install the Communicator 2007 update package that is dated April 2, 2008.

For more information about this Communicator 2007 hotfix package, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: