Beta testing for Office 15 has started

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This week, a select group of testers were granted access to the Office 15 Technical Preview build. As this program is under a non-disclosure agreement, nothing can be shared about how it has progressed from previous leaks and screenshots which were published.

The current “Office 15” codename encompasses the entire Office Family which is; Office, Office 365, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, Project, and Visio.

While the current builds have only been made available to a select group of testers, you can expect a public beta later this summer.

Posted on: February 3, 2012
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Exchange 2007 SP3 Rollup 6

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Update Rollup 6 for Exchange 2007 Service Pack 3 is now available for direct download (see below for links). Expect it to become available via Microsoft Update on October 25.

It includes 21 new fixes. The Exchange Team would like to highlight the following ones (some KB articles might not yet be available in your region);

  • DST Cadence Release for Dec 2011 – Exchange 2007
  • KB22656040 An Exchange Server 2007 Client Access server may respond slowly or stop responding when users try to synchronize the Exchange ActiveSync devices with their mailboxes
  • KB2498852 “0x80041606” error message when you perform a prefix search by using Outlook in online mode in an Exchange Server 2007 environment
  • KB22653334 The reseed process is unsuccessful on the SCR passive node when the circular logging feature is enabled in an Exchange Server 2007 environment
  • KB22617784 Journal reports are expired or lost when the Microsoft Exchange Transport service is restarted in an Exchange Server 2007 environment
  • KB2289607 The week numbers displayed in OWA do not match the week numbers displayed in Outlook for English users and French users in an Exchange Server 2007 environment

No expected release date for the next update rollup has been made known yet.

Download: Exchange 2007 SP3 Rollup 6
View: Description of Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3

Posted on: January 26, 2012

Save e-mail messages or entire folders as pdf-file

Save as PDF buttonWord, Excel and PowerPoint files can be saved directly as pdf-files. Sadly, this option is not available in Outlook, not even in Outlook for Microsoft 365. There are of course alternatives such as a pdf-printer (like “Microsoft Print to PDF” or a 3rd party pdf-printer) , using Adobe Acrobat or a 3rd party add-in such as SaveAsPDF by Sperry Software.

Another way is to use the VBA macro in this guide which uses Word’s capabilities to save documents in the pdf-format.

A benefit of this macro over most pdf-printers is that any hyperlinks within the message will continue to work and any Internet images are automatically downloaded too.

A second macro is provided which allows you to select multiple emails, or even all emails within a folder, and save them as pdf-files all at once.

This guide also contains modification examples to control the default file name for the pdf-file. This is for instance also not possible with a pdf-printer and can be quite a timesaver when you regularly need to save e-mail messages as pdf-files.

Continue reading: Save e-mail messages or entire folders as pdf-file

Posted on: January 19, 2012

Facebook Provider update for Social Connector

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An update is available for the Facebook Provider for the Outlook Social Connector. This updates the Facebook Provider to version 14.0.6114.5003.

No change log has been made available but the issue of not being able to directly add someone to Facebook via the Social Connector in Outlook is still there (leads to a 404 page). However, this is also more of an issue with the Facebook website than with the Outlook Social Connector as Facebook needs to process these URLs and send out the invite.

Update: The Outlook Team has made known that the new Facebook Provider supports secure HTTPS connections. An upgrade notification will also be shown in the People Pane later this month when you haven’t updated yet.

Download: Microsoft Outlook Social Connector Provider for Facebook

Posted on: January 18, 2012

Printing a yearly calendar with Holidays and Birthdays

When you look at the printing options in Outlook, you’ll find that there is no Calendar Style a yearly calendar. Microsoft has published several yearly calendar templates for Word, Excel and PowerPoint but these are all static and thus do not contain any key dates that you have stored in Outlook such as Holidays, Birthdays and Anniversaries.

Outlook itself can only print up to monthly calendars and while you could print multiple months on a single sheet of paper, they are still not very attractive to look at for an entire year.

A solution would be to use the Calendar Printing Assistant which is a free program from Microsoft which supports Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010. It contains various, visually appealing, Yearly Calendar templates which can be customized and include information that you’ve stored in Outlook.

This guide provides instructions on how to print a yearly calendar with key dates such as Holidays and Birthdays and also contains exclusive templates to further improve the printing output.

Continue reading: Printing a yearly calendar with Holidays and Birthdays

Posted on: January 10, 2012

Happy New Year!

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I’m wishing everybody a great 2012! And of course a trouble free Outlook year as well! :-)

To help you out, here are a couple of Outlook New Year’s Resolutions;

  • Backup your Outlook data
  • Disable add-ins you don’t use
  • Use more than rules to organize your mail

Continue reading: Top 10 Best Practices for Outlook

Posted on: January 1, 2012
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