Quick Tips for week 30 (30 July, 2010)

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

Increase attachment size limit
Password Exchange account not remembered

Quick Tip Highlights;
Always add a read request to a specific address
Associate Notes with Contacts
Why did Outlook crash?

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     Quick Tips for week 29 (23 July, 2010)

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

Import contacts from an nk2-file
Searching inside msg-files

Quick Tip Highlights;
Opening archive from a CD
AutoComplete Quick Parts
Custom votes

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     Quick Tips for week 28 (16 July, 2010)

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

BCM 2010 availability
Always prompt for sending account

Quick Tip Highlights;
Do not always ask before opening
Sync multiple calendars with PDA
New messages alert

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     Outlook Social Connector and providers (15 July, 2010)

The Outlook Social Connector is built into Outlook 2010 and available as an add-in for Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007 which allows you to get additional contact information from various social networking sites you might have signed up for.

In this article you’ll find an overview of updates and available providers you can use in combination with the Outlook Social Connector.

     Quick Tips for week 27 (9 July, 2010)

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

Outlook 2010 doesn’t sync
Issues opening Excel attachments
Account selection via keyboard shortcuts

Quick Tip Highlights;
Don’t send too large messages
Send meeting requests but don’t request responses
Save changes to this message?

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     Quick Tips for week 26 (2 July, 2010)

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

Not all contacts synching with phone
Categories and IMAP accounts
Outlook not available after installing trial

Quick Tip Highlights;
Applying custom views to all folders at once
Corrupt email crashes Outlook
Increase maximum size pst-files

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     Calendar Printing Assistant 2.0 adds support for Outlook 2010 (2 July, 2010)

A new version of the Calendar Printing Assistant has been released which adds support for Outlook 2010.

To install this new version, you must first uninstall any previous version of the Calendar Printing Assistant from your system.

Sadly, nothing seems to have changed and even the application installer and the application itself are reporting still that it is meant for Outlook 2007. It does work with Outlook 2010 now though, so it really appears that they only added support for Outlook 2010 and changed nothing else in the application.

Download: Calendar Printing Assistant 2.0

     June Hotfixes for Outlook 2007 (2 July, 2010)

A new Hotfix has been released for Outlook 2007 that solves 17 issues in total.

The most notable fix is for people who see new messages being delivered directly to the Deleted Items folder instead of the Inbox folder.

This hotfix also incorporates a design change; all files that are in Outlook’s SecureTemp folder are automatically deleted when Outlook closes. While this means that you no longer would get any errors after opening over 100 attachments with the same name, it also means you no longer have the option to rescue a modified attachment you accidentally saved to this folder. Therefore I’d really recommended to force Outlook to open all attachments as Read Only or to save an attachment to disk first if you intent to modify it.

For the full list of issues solved see KB983316

In addition to this language generic hotfix, 1 language specific hotfix has been released to solve an issue with the Italian spell checker in Outlook Web Access (OWA).
KB983308 : Update for the Italian proofing tools of Office 2007 (it-it).

Since these are hotfixes and not regular updates, you won’t be offered this update via Microsoft Update but will have to request it. You can do this at the information page of each hotfix.

If you are not (seriously) effected by any of these issues, it is recommended to wait for the next Service Pack or regular Rollup Update which will most likely contain all these fixes as well.

     iOS 4 and Exchange ActiveSync issues (2 July, 2010)

If you are using an iPad, iPhone or iPod with iOS 4 or are supporting an Exchange environment with users using those devices, then you might have been experiencing slow performance or sync not working at all. The same is true when using a 3rd party solution which also uses an ActiveSync implementation such as Google Apps.

The Exchange Team has released an overview of the issues that you can encounter and the needed fixes or the current status of (Apple) getting a fix out.