2010 March | HowTo-Outlook

Updated How To guide: Tips for cleaning up your mailbox (31 March, 2010)

Cleaning up your mailbox… Like many, it’s probably a chore you putt of usually because you don’t know where to start and thinking that it will take forever to do it. This really doesn’t have to be the case.

I’ve updated my guide with strategies on how to clean up your mailbox quickly and effectively. With the tips in this guide, you can make your mailbox much more manageable again and have the benefits of finding things back quicker, a more responsive Outlook and shorter backup times. Don’t you wish you had done it sooner now?

View How To guide: Tips for cleaning up your mailbox

View: Updated How To guide: Tips for cleaning up your mailbox

Quick Tips for week 12 (26 March, 2010)

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

Editing message increases message size
Outlook Web Access Light
Count distribution list members

Quick Tip Highlights;
Opening eml-files with Outlook
Strange Keyboard actions
Adding a note to a message

These tips and other headlines can also be followed via

View: Quick Tips for week 12

Updated FAQ: Outlook doesn’t start (26 March, 2010)

The popular FAQ article “Outlook doesn’t start” has been rewritten completely and now includes more details, screenshots and step-by-step instruction to assist you with getting Outlook back to work again in case it won’t start for you.

Since there are a plethora of reasons why Outlook doesn’t start and each have their own solution, the guide now starts of with a few easy questions to determine the scope of the issue and recommends you where you should start troubleshooting. This way you won’t have to waste time with solutions that won’t apply to your issue.

View: Updated FAQ: Outlook doesn’t start

Quick Tips for week 11 (19 March, 2010)

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

Character challenge when sending via Hotmail
Showing icons in To-Do List
Editing received messages and subjects

Quick Tip Highlights;
AutoPreview for all messages
Opening Outlook with a keyboard shortcut
Send meeting requests but don’t request responses

These tips and other headlines can also be followed via

View: Quick Tips for week 11

Update Rollup 3 for Exchange 2007 Service Pack 2 (18 March, 2010)

Update Rollup 3 for Exchange 2007 SP2 has been released.

For a list of changes that are included in this update rollup, see KB972076.

Download: Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 (KB979784)

View: Update Rollup 3 for Exchange 2007 Service Pack 2

Quick Tips for week 10 (12 March, 2010)

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

Backup Add-in and Outlook 2010
No Date at bottom of To-Do List
Receiving empty emails

Quick Tip Highlights;
Advanced Editor for Signatures
Don’t open Word attachments in Reading Layout
Split your message screen

These tips and other headlines can also be followed via

View: Quick Tips for week 10

MySpace for Outlook Social Connector (11 March, 2010)

If you are using MySpace, you can now also follow your contact’s latest MySpace activity via the MySpace provider for the Outlook Social Connector directly in Outlook.

Download: Outlook Social Connector Beta
Download: MySpace for Outlook

View: MySpace for Outlook Social Connector

Junk E-mail Filter updates for March 2010 (11 March, 2010)

New Junk E-mail Filter definitions have been made available for Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007.

Download: Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Junk Email Filter (KB977713)
Download: Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Junk Email Filter (KB979895)

If you have Windows Update configured to also update other Microsoft applications, then this update will also also be offered via Windows Update or has already been updated automatically for you.

View: Junk E-mail Filter updates for March 2010