More fake news emails from ‘CNN’ and now ‘MSNBC’ aren’t picked up by Outlook. Once a spammer or phishing baddie finds a way to bypass common spam filters they or copy-cats will quickly take advantage with similar messages. After the ‘successful’ message pretending to be from CNN and their ‘Daily
Only a few days after the ‘Top 10’ fake messages started appearing, there’s a new phishing message arriving – again it looks like an email from CNN and again Outlook’s Junk Email filter doesn’t consistently detect it. Only a few days after the ‘Top 10‘ fake messages started appearing, there’s
A new phishing message is arriving in Inboxes and mostly not being caught by Microsoft Outlook’s anti-spam and phishing filters. We have details and how to block the fake emails. A new phishing message is arriving in Inboxes and mostly not being caught by Microsoft Outlook’s anti-spam and phishing filters.
Microsoft has released a beta or test version of their Outlook Connector add-in which links Hotmail and Windows Live services to Outlook. Microsoft has released a beta or test version of their Outlook Connector add-in which links Hotmail and Windows Live services to Outlook. The download is available from Microsoft
From: ContacTree Ltd ContacTree now has a US Patent for its collaboration processes in Outlook and SharePoint. A US Patent has been granted to ContacTree Ltd., a registered Microsoft ISV Partner based in central England developing software tools and systems for collaboration in contact management and marketing. It covers processes
Microsoft currently has two overlapping and potentially conflicting patches available for Outlook 2007. Trying to work out which one to use is made more difficult by a less than open response by Microsoft As we’ve already noted, Microsoft currently has two overlapping and potentially conflicting patches available for Outlook 2007.
Since March 2008 there has been a ‘hotfixes’ for a problem in Outlook 2007 when you create a new profile. That interim hotfix has now been replaced with a permanent and fully tested fix – but before you rush to download the chances are good you already have the fix.
Most of the time all you need is the basic message information – From, To and Subject but occasionally you need to dig a bit deeper into the ‘raw’ email message header. Here’s how to do it in Outlook 2007, Outlook 2003 and before. Most of the time all you
From: Microsoft Microsoft Corp. and Concentric announced new hosted e-mail service offerings for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). LAS VEGAS — June 16, 2008 — Today at NXTcomm08, Microsoft Corp. and Concentric announced new hosted e-mail service offerings for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Concentric, a large-scale e-mail service provider,
A new version of Microsoft’s indexing and search technology is now available. The Windows Search technology is one way to find documents and messages quickly. It’s essential to using the ‘instant’ search features in Outlook 2007 and Onenote 2007. A new version of Microsoft’s indexing and search technology is now
Here’s how to trim down your Outlook storage by removing attachments from messsages, without deleting the message itself. If you’re trying to reduce the size of your Outlook storage file, one option is to remove the attachments from older messages that you’ve sent as well as attachments from messages that
An update for the iCalendar and IMAP features in Outlook 2007 was released yesterday. If you were listening very carefully yesterday, you may have heard a tiny noise … it was an update for Outlook 2007 sneaking in the back door with barely a word, let alone any announcement or
From: Caelo Software We are very happy to announce that with new investors and a regrouped development team we worked hard the last several months to prepare the next version of NEO Pro. Release 3.2 has now been launched and is a free upgrade for all licensed NEO Pro 3.x
Why the Deleted Items folder is your friend There’s a feeling around for some people that they need to keep their Outlook ‘clean’ or ‘uncluttered’ with messages removed from the Inbox immediately and even the deleted items folder kept empty. While this sounds like a good idea, it’s really not
We explain what’s really going on with AutoArchive and why you might not want to use it at all. Yesterday, Kara Monroe gave a great summary of Outlook’s AutoArchive feature, which is an automatic way to move older messages and items to a separate Outlook PST file. Now it’s my
If and how to use Outlook’s AutoArchive feature – by Kara Monroe. STORING OLD EMAIL WITH AUTOARCHIVE AND OTHER OPTIONS by Kara Monroe Chances are if you’ve used Microsoft Outlook for any period of time, you’ve been prompted to AutoArchive your old items. AutoArchive is a tool that backs up
You hit Reply to answer a messages you received – simple right? Reply and Forward have hidden depths and tricks you should know. As often happens with Outlook and Office usual there is more that is worth knowing about, even in this simple email feature. There are options to “Reply”
Before installing the January 2007 critical patch for Outlook there are some problems. The January 2007 security patch for Outlook 2003, Outlook 2002 (XP) and Outlook 2000 deals with three different problems with Outlook – one of which is very serious. But one of the fixes in the 9 January
Alternatives to printing out email messages. I know this will seem like heresy to some readers (we’re fully prepared for the emails from angry readers) but do you need to print out that email at all? Certainly there’s a place for printing out a long message so you can read it
The latest ebook from Office Watch. Our latest ‘Quickie’ ebook will be published in the next few days – it’s a companion to our popular Organizing Outlook Email – this time we’re looking at the Contacts feature in Outlook. http://shop.office-watch.com/coc/ Clever Outlook Contacts goes beyond just entering a few phone
Microsoft entry in the desktop search arena reached v3 – which is important for anyone using Outlook 2007 Windows Desktop Search v3 is out now and can be downloaded from here. This is Microsoft’s rival to things like Google Desktop Search. WDS v3 is a virtually essential part of Outlook
How to add Quick Launch icons for specific folders in Outlook. Getting quickly to the Outlook folder you want can be a little easier if you use the Windows XP Quick Launch toolbar. Any Outlook folder can be dragged onto the Quick Launch toolbar for fast access. If you don’t
Google has expanded their Gmail service into a new area – Google Apps for domains. This might sound very complex and for business but it is neither. Google’s service lets you manage the email accounts for an entire domain – not just a single address. This gives you many options
A new security threat known as the VML vulnerability has just been patched by Microsoft. As we’ve mentioned in Office Watch, a new security threat known as the VML vulnerability has just been patched by Microsoft. This is important because there’s a possibility of email messages taking advantage of this
