I've noticed that a bunch of the referrers I get from google/msn/yahoo search to this blog are interested in terms such as "Email Notification Icon". So in response to that, today's blog entry is about two tricks related to the system tray, one...

On a previous entry , I described the URL parameter for accessing the dumpster via OWA. There are actually many many more URL parameters you can use directly or embed in other web pages. For example, all of the following can be retrieved...

I had a note to describe this setting in a future blog entry, but since I saw this question  I figured I'd put this ahead of the other items on my to-blog list: By default, when you send HTML mail and include pictures inline in the body...

In a previous entry , I received a comment about how there were no examples of using WebDAV in the Exchange SDK with ASP.Net... I forwarded it to our SDK team (who can be reached at exsdkfb AT microsoft DOT com) and they pointed out several examples for...

Watch a trailer for the Prisoner of Azkaban , and see some excellent high-res photos from the new film. I particularly enjoyed this one and that one , for their artistic merit. [Source: censored ]

Outlook has a bunch of commandline switches that can be used to change certain behaviors, reset settings, or do things such as create messages. There are two switches that are sometimes confused with each other: /cleanreminders and /resetfolders. I got...

It was only six short months ago that I blogged about becoming the release manager for Exchange , and already it's changing... starting February 1st, I will no longer be the release manager for Exchange. This change is for a very good reason: I have decided...

In a couple of weeks, I'll be celebrating my 6 month blogaversary. Sheesh, have I learned a lot in that time. I've talked to (and sometimes helped) a whole new bunch of customers, I've found several blogs from Exchange administrators that have provided...

In Tools | Options | Email Options | Advanced E-Mail Options, there is a setting: "Suggest names while completing the To, Cc and Bcc fields." When enabled, Outlook suggests matches as you're typing in these fields, much like IE will suggest URLs as...

I've been suffering silently with this problem for a long time. It happens on all of my machines. Granted, they're all configured almost essentially the same. IE is my default browser. When I type a URL into the addressbar (which I have on my taskbar...

John Durant recently blogged about his macro to create a task from an e-mail. I thought that was a great idea, so I modified it a bit to suit my purposes. I frequently take an item from my inbox and Edit | Move to Folder and move it to the tasks folder...

I've been watching with interest the various posts about why there are so few women in tech and what can/should be done about it. This is an area that I have a fair amount of interest in and (of course) some personal experience. So, here's my opinion...

I noticed this blog entry (thank you, main feed!) with a feature request for Outlook, and I shared that request with the Outlook team. One of the PMs in Outlook suggested an idea of how to achieve something close to this by putting the flags on a toolbar...

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confer no rights. Moreover, I'm describing the history of the situation from when I actively worked on this area several years ago. Some things may have changed since then. I started my career at...

I learned a wonderful trick today that completely resonates with me, and I wanted to share it. Perhaps I should start a new program management category for this kind of thing, seems like I've been writing about it a lot recently. The problem: You have...

Here are some of my favorite keyboard shortcuts in Outlook, from a self-proclaimed keyboard junkie. Many of these are standard windows shortcuts, some are specific to Outlook: F6 : Switches between navigation pane/folder list, message list and preview...

The ability to customize toolbars has been around for several versions now, but it doesn't seem to be very widely used in my unofficial survey. I make heavy use of customized toolbars in Outlook, specifically for adding my own keyboard shortcuts...

to Audrey Julia Lemson, who joined our family this morning at 12:28 AM, weighing 8 lbs 12oz and measuring 20.5" tall.

3 months before I moved out here and started working at Microsoft, a friend of mine told me: "KC, you need a pilot... because you have the organizational Zen, but not the tools required to implement it". Little did I know that I would shortly find that...

I tried, I tried really hard. I kept hearing from RSS Bandit users who loved it, and although I'm a fairly happy newsgator user and can't imagine switching for my core technical feeds, I thought it might be nice to at least try something else for my more...

This is one of those features that a lot of people love to hate, where you have to wait a few seconds or go to the little chevron on the bottom of the menu to expand it: It doesn't bug me too much - except when it hides the MRU (most recently used...

This week I purchased an Audiovox SMT 5600 [1] aka C500 and switched my cell phone service from T-Mobile to AT&T Wireless in order to get this phone, as I have been waiting for this combination of features and form factor in a smartphone for 2 years...

Bill posted this meme (which came from a bunch of people, as far back as this dude whose O was office.microsoft.com, hurrah!) and it caught my eye: Clear the address bar in your browser, type in every letter of the alphabet, and list out what is the first...

These are four of the most common problems I've seen when setting up this configuration: #1: In the “Exchange server“ field in the first page of the wizard to add an Exchange account, enter the name of your exchange server which might be...

I'm sitting in a meeting where we're discussing consolidating KB articles, and one of the issues that's come up is that most times when we go to consolidate two or three or fifteen KB articles into one, we end up with a 20 page KB article that's really...