An Outlook meeting has a notes area that can be used to store information related to the meeting. Although it may seem very convenient to add notes directly into the meeting, there are few things that you should consider before you do this. The meeting organizer After you invite other people to...

Outlook allows users to share folders so that others can interact with items in those folders. Additionally, a user can be configured as an Outlook Delegate, allowing him or her to manage specific tasks on your behalf, such as meeting related tasks. If another user grants you folder permissions (or makes...

If you frequently work with meetings in Outlook, it is very likely that at some point you read the Outlook meeting requests: Essential do’s and don’ts article. However, you probably noticed that this older document only generally applies to newer Outlook versions. Over the last few years...

If you want to change the calendar Work Week for example from “ Sunday until Thursday” you can do that automatically by simple running the below sample script. We took some time and we wrote this sample code which will help you to deploy this to all your users, but before doing this please...

For example if you migrated to Outlook 2007 and you also received a new machine, you want to make a back-up of the NK2 files and also to your signatures before the upgrade. With this sample .vbs logoff script you can copy all these information from this folders to an external location (network drive...

Continuing with the tools series I will briefly describe MFCMAPI tool in this post. MFCMAPI is one of most complex tools that we can use to investigate Outlook issues and not only. Taking in consideration the complexity of this tool, I will not be able to describe everything or to give examples...

Another tool that can be useful while trying to solve an Outlook issue is Process Monitor. Download link: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread...

The following blog post will give an overview of common tools used to troubleshoot Outlook issues. I will focus in this post on Process Explorer. I will not cover all features that Process Explorer has, but I will try to highlight some of them that you can use while investigating an Outlook issue. ...

Scenario: User A sends an email message with an attachment to User B. The attachment name has the following filename: Name.a.b.c.txt. When User B receives the attachment and opens it from Outlook he will see thatdots (“.”) from the file are replaced with blank spaces (instead of Name.a...

Prerequisites 1.1 Make sure that you are up-to-date! 1.1.1 Outlook For administrators is very important keep all Outlook clients updated with the latest Microsoft cumulative updates for Office/Outlook. 1.1.2 Exchange Exchange server should be up-to-date in order to avoid issues that...

How AutoArchive works in Outlook Outlook mailboxes grow as users create and receive items. To keep mailboxes manageable, users need another place to store - or archive - older items that are important but not frequently used. It is typically most convenient to automatically move these older items...

Some may think that the default format of the user/contact template in Outlook is not the most suitable for their needs. The good news is that this appearance can be changed. Let’s start with making the difference between User and Contact: a User is usually a member of our Exchange organization...