Quick Tips for week 48 (27 November, 2009)

This week, the following Quick Tips were posted at HowTo-Outlook’s Q&A blog MSOutlook.info;

Client-side and server-side rules
Deleting large Calendar items
Forgotten attachment or subject reminder
Out of Office Assistant missing
Quickly send copied text and files

These tips and other headlines can also be followed via

     Exchange Recovery (21 November, 2009)

Stellar Phoenix Exchange Server Repair Software is a powerful tool which scans, repairs, and then restores the corrupted Exchange server database in efficient and effective way. Through the competent and advanced scanning algorithms, Phoenix Exchange server repair proves excellent software for businesses, using Exchange server.

Exchange Server Repair tool offers fast and secure repair options. An absolute application with easy-to-understand Exchange server repair steps will give you the extracted mailboxes in PST format so as to use with MS Outlook.

You can repair your Exchange server database with just three clicks, select, scan and repair. Then you just watch repair tool delivering your repaired mailboxes in minutes. To make Exchange Server repair easier, the software provides you option to select preferred mailboxes for restoration.

Phoenix Exchange Server repair proves a handy solution, performing in each database corruption problem, whether application error, virus attack, database structure malfunction, unexpected shutdown or any similar. The software directly interacts with Exchange database for resulting Exchange Server repair, and wipes out corruption in any case when you are getting error messages like:

• “An MTA database server error was encountered. Error accessing object attribute (AAT) on a Read/Write operation”
• “Error Opening Message Store”
• “Sever Specific Error 4294966278 (JET_errReadVerifyFailure)”

With absolute repair of all mailboxes as PST, you can get back all e-mails, journals appointments, rules, calendar, notes and all other database objects.

     Outlook PST Repair (21 November, 2009)

Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair is a proficient PST recovery software that safely repairs corrupt PST files after almost all logical crashes like application malfunction, improper file sharing on LAN/WAN, operating system corruption, disrupted pst compaction, exceeding 2GB file size, PST file header corruption, and malicious software like virus.

Main features;

• Repairs PST files with size greater than 2GB
• Saves recovered file as a new PST file on any disk (or network) that can be accessed by the host operating system
• Retrieves e-mails, calendar entries, journals, contacts and notes
• Restores formatting from RTF and HTML messages
• Allows message view in a 3-view format
• Finds data from encrypted files
• Designs unique profile for individual PST files

     Stellar (21 November, 2009)

Stellar Information Systems Limited is a worldwide trusted name in providing efficient data recovery services since 1993. With over 1,000,000 satisfied customers (including NGOs, medical institutions, universities, law enforced offices, software companies) across 137 countries and strong presence in Europe and Asia, the company has the experience of recovering inaccessible and corrupt data from all brands and formats of digital media.

Stellar Information Systems Limited brings the knowledge of highly qualified and experienced data recovery technicians to recover data in wide range of cases like systems malfunctions, sabotage, natural disaster, etc. Equipped with Class 100 Clean Room facilities, Stellar provides the finest invasive and forensic data recovery services for all storage media such as hard drives, multi-disk servers, RAID, NAS, SAN, and other digital storage media. Stellar “NO DATA NO CHARGE” policy and proven evidence of service quality makes it the top preference for your data recovery service needs. Stellar guarantees complete customer data privacy and 100% risk free data recovery.

Also, with the proven record in recovering data after all types of logical data loss scenarios, Stellar leads the queue with its powerful data recovery, e-mail recovery and file recovery applications. These utilities ensure complete data recovery in cases like accidental formatting, human errors, software bugs and more for operating systems including Windows, Macintosh, UNIX, Linux, and Novell.

The ISO 9001:2000 certified company provides one of the best industry standard success rates and puts-in cutting-edge technology to recover significant business and personal data. The company’s only objective is to provide fast, comprehensive and economical recovery of data in all kinds of data loss scenarios. The data quality commitment provided by Stellar Information Systems Limited is incomparable in the industry.

The company proudly owns various certificates of its excellence like Best Software (awarded at Compass – IT exhibition), PC World Editor’s Choice Award and Best Data Recovery Software Vendor (Techies Award). Stellar’s applications and services prove time and again through reviews of various top ranking PC Magazines, PC Updates, Chips and websites.

     OLMixedFolders (21 November, 2009)

Most synchronization solutions for mobile devices on the market can only deal with default folders of Outlook. In order to extend your existing synchronization solution to all other folders like Public folders and Subfolders you can try OLMixedFolders.

All your items in your public- or subfolders will be copied to your default-folder which is synchronized with your existing synchronization solution. This means that OLMixedFolders works with Pocket-PC, Windows Mobile devices, BlackBerry, Symbian, iPhone, Palm or others. OLMixedFolders will assign each of the items a category which you have defined in the folders configuration. This is the way how you find out which item belongs to which folder.

The synchronization of your items is running entirely  in the background. You can include multiple folders to OLMixedFolders. It’s easy to configure, all you have to do is right click on your subfolder or public folder and choose the OLMixedFolders’ tab, set the category for the folder and that’s it. If you make any changes on your mobile device you receive the changes in your sub-, or public folder. after synchronization. You can exclude private items from synchronization. It is also possible to define categories as filters.

OLMixedFolders is an Outlook ComAddIn and only works on your PC. No software has to be installed
on your mobile device.

Examples for using OLMixedFolders:

• Whenever you wish to have your private folders synchronized with your sub- or public folders
• Synchronization of public folders from Exchange or subfolders with PocketPC or mobile phone.
• Some Add-Ins for Outlook only work with the standard folder. OLMixedFolders enables you to also have access to other folders.
• The reminder function of Outlook 2000 – 2003 only works in the standard folder. OLMixedFolders can be used in order to allow you to also use the reminder function of public folders.

     OLFolderSync (21 November, 2009)

OLFolderSync can synchronize any Microsoft® Outlook® folder with anyone else’s (except Drafts, Outbox, Sent Items and Deleted Items).

If at home or at work – it is often necessary to keep Outlook appointments, contacts, tasks, E-mails and other Outlook data synchronized on several computers. This Outlook Add-In allows you to do just this. The folders you allow to be synchronized will do so in the background by e-mail. You can easily synchronize Outlook folders through the internet without the need for both parties to be online at the same time.

If you have private data elements in Outlook you can exclude them from the synchronization process. It is also possible to synchronize only objects of a user defined category.

The installation is straightforward. In order to install and use this application you only need your Outlook to be configured with an e-mail account (POP3). After completing the install ation you will find a new property tab under each Outlook folder, where you can administrate the synchronization features. In order to configure the Add-In you only enter an access key and the e-mail address of your synchronization partner. The data transfer can be protected with a password.

OLFolderSync is very convenient to:

• Synchronize your Outlook appointments, contacts and tasks.
• Let your PA add and amend appointments, tasks or other Outlook objects while being on the other side of the world.
• Synchronize birthday dates with friends and family.
• Work in a team with a synchronized Outlook calendar, tasks and other documents.
• Synchronize Outlook data on your laptop with your desktop.
• Synchronize your appointments with those of your field representatives.
• Synchronize club/association schedules with that of other members.
• Facilitate schedules to team members.
• Outlook net folder alternative (net folders from OL2000).

     NVN for Outlook (21 November, 2009)

This utility displays appointments and tasks on your desktop so you don’t loose track. The desktop image remains fully visible.

This utility displays appointments and tasks on your desktop so you don’t loose track. The desktop image remains fully visible.

If you feel that your Outlook-Calendar is too many clicks away or you are loosing your appointments out of sight, then this fully customizable DesktopCalendar is the solution. It runs in the system tray and
can display your calendar in weekly, 5-day or monthly view. The calendar works with Microsoft® Agent –reading pre-defined sayings, verses or the time to you. Any appointment can be edited straight on your desktop.

A brief list of tasks that DesktopCalendar (for Outlook) can help you with:

• Display appointments from Outlook on your desktop.
• Any task on Outlook with end date will be integrated into the calendar.
• Direct access to individual appointments with a simple mouse click.
• You can browse your e-mails while the application reads you the subject lines or informs you about new messages (if you are using OL2003 please read this).
• Use different Microsoft® Agents from your system.
• Display calendar in weekly, 5-day or monthly view.
• Option to customize your calendar with your own designs, fonts and colors.
• Define time for the Agent to read chosen verses in the administration.
• On birthdays it calculates the age of people from your Outlook directory.

     Somebytes (21 November, 2009)

Somebytes Software Sven Ilius is a German software company and specializes in Microsoft Outlook application development.

     InstantWelcome for Exchange 2007 (21 November, 2009)

InstantWelcome utility allows you to create and automatically send custom Exchange welcome messages to all your new employees when they sign into Outlook for the first time.

The welcome message might contain some basic information about Exchange, URL for OWA, how to access OWA from home, links to instructions etc.

If your Exchange Mailbox Server has several mailbox stores, you can set up a different welcome message for each store. The application includes a simple HTML editor to create and modify welcome messages.

The application is an Exchange store event sink.

     CentralUniSent for Exchange 2003 (21 November, 2009)

Suppose that Outlook user John Doe has access to his personal mailbox and also has right to send as additional mailboxes (usually “Info” <info@company.com>, “Sales” <sales@company.com> etc.) on Exchange server. When he sends an e-mail from these mailboxes the message goes into his personal mailbox Sent items folder.

CentralUniSent utility ensures that the message sent with the non-personal From address will be moved to the Sent Items folder of the mailbox the message was sent from.
Also you can easily see who was the original author of the message.

The application is an Exchange store event sink.