I haven't been blogging much recently, and there's a reason for that. Omar's recent post reminded me that I needed to blog this. I'm changing jobs... Starting in a couple of weeks, I will no longer be a program manager in Exchange. Instead, I will be...

Outlook has had a 'new mail alert' dialog for years, but until the new mail desktop alert in Outlook 2003, it was, well, sucky. There's another way you can create a custom alert for new mail as well that is not immediately obvious, so I wanted to mention...

W henever I think about designing seemingly simple features, I reflect back on this to remind myself how nothing is as simple as it seems: For Exchange 2000 Service Pack 2, I was tasked with speccing out a feature - type-down search. In Outlook and Windows...

[Updated 5/10: Added a new word, didn't want to create a new post just for that one word.] Adam picked up on my usage of 'open the kimono' [1], which reminded me that I've been meaning to blog a little bit about the somewhat odd vocabulary that once...

If you're using Outlook against an Exchange server, you can share folders between users. This can be done via a few different UI entrypoints - you could go to Tools | Options | Delegates and add a user, or you could right click on a folder and choose...

Culminis has launched, and the annual membership fee is waived for new organizations that register before July 1st. If you're in an IT-related user group, tell your group leader to sign up.

Bob asked in the comments on this article if it's possible to add a tooltip to a button. Here's one way to do it programmatically for your own buttons. The below example adds a custom button to the standard toolbar and assigns it a tooltip. Note that...

I learned this lesson the hard way. I used to manage the interoperability lab for the Outlook team, which is a lab with a bunch of different email and LDAP servers used for testing the POP/IMAP/SMTP/LDAP support in Outlook. In an effort to minimize the...

Ewan just clued me in to something nifty: you can get HTTP referrer data in your sharepoint site, just go to http://server/sites/nameofsite/ _layouts/1033/usagedetails.aspx . To get there in the UI: Click on Site Settings (by default at the top...

If you sound out my name (KC) into French and translate it back, you get the word “broken” (cassé). I was reminded of that while reading this great story : Other hardware also went astray this week. We sent a shipment of handheld...

Welp, I'm back from Tech-Ed. I'm embarrassed that I didn't blog here the entire time I was gone! I did keep the Exchange blog up to date at least, we're posting content related to SP1 and the recent update to our tools that we did, check it out. I had...

Have you ever had one of those moments when you feel like you've just been wasting time your entire life? Well, this video made me feel that way about folding laundry. [via Don Park ]

I saw this discussion on Jonathan's blog , so here's one option: #1: Follow the instructions in this article with this code: Public Sub EmptyJunkEmailFolder() Dim outapp As Outlook.Application Set outapp = CreateObject("outlook.application...

Sharing your standard folders like Calendar/Tasks with Outlook & Exchange is pretty straightforward, as I mentioned earlier . But what do you do if you want to share out a folder that's not a sibling to those standard folders, or not one of the default...

I've blogged previously about how to create a new toolbar button that runs a macro you've written. Another neat trick about this is to change the icon on this custom toolbar button to be more relevant. I have custom macros to do things such as: ...

I just ran across these from Christa : The Exorcist or The Shining , re-enacted in 30 seconds... by bunnies. Needless to say, I signed up for email updates for when she releases the next one.