Even though Office 2007 Service Pack 2 has been out only a short time there is already a patch for Outlook 2007.
This ‘hotfix’ is temporary and a ‘ not fully tested’ update. It is dated 30 April 2009 – only a few days after Service Pack 2 went public though it was only released to the public on 6 May.
Only install this patch if you have the specific problem mentioned and you need a patch now. It’s better to wait for a properly tested update whenever possible.
Note: Two of the bugs listed below have arisen from previous hotfixes released by Microsoft. A practical lesson in why hotfixes aren’t to be applied just for the heck of it.
If you need one of these patches, use the “View and request hotfix downloads” link at the top of the Microsoft support web page linked below. Fill in your email address and a download link for the hotfix will be sent to you.
A sender sends an e-mail message that requests a read receipt to a recipient that is running Outlook 2007 in the cached mode. When the recipient reads the message, the sender does not receive the read receipt as expected.
Consider the following scenario. You add a Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) e-mail account and an Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) e-mail account to a single Outlook 2007 profile.
When the Inbox folder for the IMAP e-mail account is active in Outlook 2007, and you delete a voice mail from a telephone, you receive the following error message in Outlook 2007: Failed to Update Headers
When the Inbox folder for the MAPI e-mail account is active in Outlook 2007, and you delete a voice mail from a telephone, you do not receive any error message in Outlook 2007.
In Outlook 2007, you change the server name of a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) address book. After that, the LDAP address book is not listed underWhen using mail, check names in address lists in the following orderin theAddressing dialog box as expected.
In Outlook 2007, when you try to send the message to more than two personal distribution lists from the Contacts folder of an additional mailbox, you receive the following error message: An unexpected error has occurred. Additionally, the message is never sent to the contacts in those personal distribution lists.
You open a document library of a SharePoint Web site in Windows Explorer. However, you may be unable to dragan e-mail message from Outlook 2007 to this library. This problem occurs when the SharePoint Web site is hosted on a port other than port 80.
Outlook 2007 stops responding for the duration of the Find operation when you try to search for a public folder.
You have a custom form in which the LayoutFlags property of a control is set to 65. In this case, you can resize the control vertically and horizontally. This form is correctly displayed in Outlook 2003. However, this form is not displayed correctly in Outlook 2007.
Outlook 2007 does not check the Subject Alternative Name (SAN) entries for a certificate when Outlook tries to connect to a Microsoft Exchange Server that uses the certificate through an Internet Protocol, such as IMAP, POP or SMTP. Therefore, when Outlook is trying to connect the Exchange Server, you receive the following error message: The server you are connected to is using a security certificate that cannot be verified.