Search folders are a new feature in Outlook 2003. As I mentioned previously , a search folder is a special folder that contains a 'view' of items in other folders. That view is the result of a search request. One perhaps non-obvious use...

If you want to see the new tricked-out Outlook Web Access 2003 or test-drive the mobily features in Exchange 2003, sign up for a free trial account: http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/evaluation/trial/online.asp

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A friend of mine just looked up her parents' engagement announcement from the New York Times' online archive, from 1950. I thought to myself "how neat is that?"... but then I had to remind myself that by the time my son is old enough to use a computer...

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One of the advantages of RTF mail is that it supports inline attachments - you can attach a file and have it show up anywhere in the message, rather than in the 'attachment well' like it does with HTML and plain text messages. You can actually achieve...

Today's tip reminded me of something: when I was a tester in the Outlook group and did interviews, testing NLP was one of my standard interview questions. I liked using it for interviews because it's something that you'd be able to grasp quickly...

For years, I've been using NLP in Outlook but something I read recently reminded me that not everyone may realize this capability exists. So today's tip is to illustrate the power of natural language parsing in date fields in Outlook. This is doubleplus...

Fast Company has another great article today, about an innovative program in Des Moines. Local businesses donated space and some supplies, and the school board agreed to set up a school on the location. The school is connected via walkways to the local...

Fast company has an interesting article today about how mapping sites such as MapQuest.com maintain their data. There are folks whose entire job is to drive around, noting metadata about roads and rules that eventually gets pulled into databases tapped...

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 have Outlook 2003's junk mail filter set at the 'low' threshold - this catches a big chunk of my spam (I receive about 60-100 per day, 80-90% of them are caught by Outlook) and I have never had a false positive in the months I've been using it, so...

TechNet has just launched a site that lets you search through existing security bulletins based on criteria such as patch severity, affected products, etc. One of the niftiest parts is that it lets you search on patches that haven't been superseded...

I'll be OOF, spending Halloween with my family, and won't be blogging in that time. Jared will be a leopard. :-) See you next week.

Did you know that our IT department publishes white papers on how they operate? http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/itsolutions/msit/Default.asp . Two exchange related papers were published in August.

Some friends of mine in the San Diego area have posted some pictures and commentary: http://www.declan.net/images/2003/031026/ http://web.figure1.net/~jlindqui/photos/fire031026/ Some of the more striking ones: http://www.declan...

This is something I use in Excel all the time, that I only found out about a year or so ago, so I thought I'd mention it here. Unfortunately, I don't know what version of Excel this first became available in. Get a quick count of the number of...

If you have an Intellimouse , you can use the buttons on the side of the mouse to navigate between folders you've already selected (they act like a forward/back button in Internet Explorer as well as Outlook): 1. Click on the Inbox 2. Click...

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...

Huzzah, huzzah, my list of the top ten tasks for new Exchange admins has been published on the Exchange web site: http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/techinfo/administration/beginner.asp . It was fun to write, because I only came up with the idea in...

My aggregator of choice is Newsgator , as it pulls my RSS feeds into Outlook which is where I'm already spending most of my day. If I didn't have Newsgator and has to use another program, I probably wouldn't read my feeds nearly as frequently as I...

I try to keep this blog mostly technical, but I just need to say in public that my son rolled over for the first time a couple of days ago, at 4 months 1 week old. Way to go Jared ! Of course, he hasn't entertained us with this trick again, but I'm sure...

Much has been made of Information Rights Management in Outlook/Windows 2003. But for years, organizations with 100% Outlook users have been capable of achieving a small level of the same functionality with custom Outlook forms. First, create...

By default, Outlook only displays reminders for four default folders: Inbox (for items flagged for follow up with a date for the reminder) Contacts (for flagged contacts, i.e. "call this guy") Tasks Calendar But if you...

A friend of mine works in the Anti-SPAM group here at Microsoft. When he joined the group, he was required to sign a disclaimer to signify that he was aware that in the process of doing his job, he might see pornographic and other possibly objectionable...

#1: Show more months The default calendar view shows you many things: The appointments you have scheduled for the day(s) you have selected, your task list, and a date picker that shows one or more months on the calendar. If you want...