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News     Quick Tips for week 52 (25 December, 2009)

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

Typing categories instead of selecting
Password expired for Live Hotmail account
Archive.pst has reached its maximum size

In true spirit of the countdown to the New Year, a countdown of the 10 most popular tips of this year;

  1. Reminder on contacts
  2. Resetting dat-files
  3. Fixing Instant Search
  4. Adding attendees and sending reminders
  5. Find e-mail between specific dates

Next week; places 5 to 1

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News     Merry Christmas! (24 December, 2009)

Merry Christmas to everyone!

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News     Quick Tips for week 51 (18 December, 2009)

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

Outlook crashes upon selecting folder
Sending Outlook folders
Add Cc or Bcc fields to meeting invitation
Search queries with special characters
Sending meeting reminders to non-responders

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News     Quick Tips for week 50 (11 December, 2009)

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

Signature adds weird characters
Importing contacts from Windows Contacts folder
Holiday updates
Adding holidays to a Public Folder Calendar
Mail Merge filter based on Categories

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News     Preparing for the holidays with Outlook (11 December, 2009)

SnowmenIt’s that time again; the last holidays of the year are coming up! If you are a planner, you probably have written your entire To-Do List in Outlook already, have scheduled all the family visits in your calendar and synchronized everything to your mobile device too; all things digital! ;-)

But why stop there? Outlook can be great to manage your list of Christmas cards to send out as well with the use of categories and a mail merge from your Contacts folder. Of course you can directly send a digital card from Outlook too but automating the addressing of envelopes for real cards can be done as well.

All the information you need and links to templates and images you can use can be found in this special Christmas guide.

View: Preparing for the holidays with Outlook


News     Free e-book: “First Look: Microsoft Office 2010” (11 December, 2009)

For a limited time, Microsoft Press is offering the e-book “First Look: Microsoft Office 2010” for free and without any required registration.

The main focus of this book is of course highlighting the new features in Office 2010. For Outlook that is for example, the new full-Ribbon-style interface, Backstage, the redesigned Conversation View, Conversation Cleanup, Quick Steps, the Social Connector/People Pane and the new Schedule View (which replaces the “Plan a Meeting” and “Group Schedules” feature).

Other applications that are being discussed are: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, SharePoint Workspace (this used to be called Groove), Publisher and Access. In addition, some “better together” scenarios are being discussed as well as the security and permissions features that are introduced or improved throughout Office 2010.

Download: First Look: Microsoft Office 2010

View: Free e-book: “First Look: Microsoft Office 2010”


News     Update Rollup 1 for Exchange 2010 (11 December, 2009)

Update Rollup 1 for Exchange 2010 has been released.
For a list of changes that are included in this update rollup, see KB976573.

Download: Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2010 (KB976573)

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HowTo     Setting up a Corporate Signature (10 December, 2009)

Within a company, you usually want to control the signatures that users are using when sending mail outside of the company. Most companies want to include at least a "disclaimer" text, others want to control the amount of contact details as well and still others want to control the entire look and feel of the signature.

Outlook offers no direct means to do this since the Signature feature in Outlook is a client side feature and thus users can create and modify their own signature. You can lock down the access to the Signature feature by using Group Policies but that still doesn't take away the issue of creating/generating a standard signature in the first place and deploying it to the users.

This guide discusses the features that Exchange offers to create and manage signatures at server level. Also, additional methods are being discussed to manage it without an Exchange server or when using earlier versions of Exchange. Finally, an overview of 3rd party solutions is provided for alternative solutions.

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News     Quick Tips for week 49 (4 December, 2009)

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

Creating a task for a Word document
Windows 7 and Hide When Minimized
Jump to date
Searching based on Active Directory information
Suppressing mail alerts in meetings and presentations

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