How to get useful extras for Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007 without ‘social’ connections. Microsoft’s Outlook Social Connector adds useful features to Outlook, even if you have no interest in the links to Facebook, Windows Live Messenger etc. The social connector adds the Outlook 2010 People Pane to two earlier
Some registry/policy options to control the Outlook Social Connector. Buried on the Microsoft Support site is KB2010103 “How to manage the Outlook Social Connector by using Group Policy” it provides some options for managing the OSC but mostly for network administrators. These options can apply to Outlook 2010 as well
See what Facebook friends are doing while using Outlook. Microsoft has released another ‘social connector’ that lets you see Facebook details inside Outlook. It is available for Outlook 2010, Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2003. Simply download it from Microsoft and install. Outlook 2010 users should choose the 32-bit or 64-bit
Microsoft extends the social connections in Outlook 2010 to earlier versions of Outlook. Microsoft has released an add-in for Outlook 2007 and 2003 that lets you link to social networking sites like Facebook in a similar way to the People Pane in Outlook 2010. It’s not perfect but it’s a
A cleverly written phishing email looks like a request from Microsoft. On the back of many fake Amazon emails comes another message not caught by a fully updated Outlook Junk Email filter on the ‘High’ setting. Instead of being safely parked in the Junk E-mail folder, Outlook leaves the message
Microsoft leaves Outlook 2010 64-bit customers with no hope of Windows Mobile support. Sometimes you have to wonder how serious Microsoft is about their mobile product offerings. Sure they have all the marketing hoopla but the integration with Windows and Outlook is astonishingly poor – you’ve be forgiven for thinking
Looking for 2022 FIFA World Cup, Qatar calendar info? … click here Outlook’s Internet Calendar feature can be used to follow the round ball game or interesting things. I don’t know about you, but my football/soccer gene was removed at birth. The whole World Cup event is a mystery to
There has been a rush of fake emails that are being missed by Outlook Junk email filters even in Outlook 2010 with the latest updates. All of the messages look very like real messages and appear to come from legitimate companies. Often the only way to quickly pick the fake
Emails can disappear in many different ways before they reach you. Michael writes: “You and others say to check your ‘Junk e-mail’ folder. … You should mention to check the ‘Junk e-mail’ folder on your ISP’s webmail and your local e-mail program in your articles. This is easy to overlook
Microsoft releases programmer tools to look at the Outlook PST data file. Microsoft has released two tools for developers to read Outlook PST files without needing Outlook to run or even be present on that computer. PST Data Structure View The .pst Data Structure View Tool is program to browse
What the new Suggested Contacts folder does – and does not do. One of the new features introduced in MS Outlook 2010 is Suggested Contacts folder. It will appear in your folder list when you install Office 2010 with no immediate explanation of what it is or what it does.
How to write an email now and send it later. For many versions of Outlook you’ve been able to write an email now but delay sending it until a later time. Like many things with Outlook, there are several catches to the supposedly simple feature. Why delay sending a message?
If the update for Outlook connector 14 to Hotmail breaks down, there’s a fix. Microsoft released a mandatory upgrade to its Outlook Connector 14 software which endlessly cycles through the “You must upgrade…” message. It seems to affect Vista and Windows 7 users leaving XP systems alone. The upgrade was
So much for the difficulties of 64-bit Office 2010 – is it worth it? Last week we had a lot of coverage on Office 2010 64-bit edition, the compatibility issues and special installation requirements. If you don’t think you’ll have any compatibility problems, is it worth the trouble? That’s the big
Another little change in Outlook 2010 is the way an incoming appointment request is displayed. Outlook has a great feature where people can email an appointment to you and you can respond with the details automatically added to your calendar. In Outlook 2007 you see the details of the appointment
A long desired feature finally appears in Outlook 2010. Sometimes it’s not the ‘headline’ features in new software that really appeal – it’s the small changes that make a big difference. The downside of these innovations is that you wonder why Microsoft took so long to make a simple change.
March update to your Outlook junk email filter. Just a reminder that Microsoft now updates the spam filter in Outlook 2007 more often, with the latest released on 9 March 2010. You can download it from Microsoft or it may arrive via Windows/Microsoft Update. The update should help Outlook better
Access Archon #170 Introduction Several earlier Access Archon articles have dealt with various aspects of mass emailings. In Access Archon #106 I described how to send mass emailings from an Access table, in Access Archon #135 I described how to send reports as attachments for a mass emailing, and in
How to export information from a current record of an Access form to make a new Outlook appointment. Q: Martin Wichmand writes: “In my planner I have a Subject, Startdate, StartTime and Endtime. Normally I import those to Outlook via the slow and manual way. But I wonder if it
How to find Outlook mail messages from a specific sender. Q: Ray in New Zealand writes: “I’m trying to link my Access db (Accommodation) to Outlook. I receive accommodation bookings from guests and would like to be able to click on a button on the guest data form which will
How to export contacts from an Access table to an Outlook folder. Q: Farouk Dawood has written code to export contacts from an Access table to an Outlook folder, using the CreateItem(olContactItem) syntax, but it isn’t working – the new contacts are being created in the default local Contacts folder
How to synchronize Access and Outlook – a more advanced lesson. Q: Jim Brooking writes that he is trying to use my Code Sample #49 for synchronizing Access and Outlook contacts, but it doesn’t do all that he wants, in particular two-way synchronizing. A: My Code Sample #49 dates from
Q: Sanjay Singal wants to know how to send an attachment generated from Access data in an Outlook email message. A: Access Archon #148 deals with this topic (creating and mailing attachments in an email message). In this sample database, the values of various email message fields are picked up
