Benjamin Gay

Office version numbers

2007-03-28T03:39:00Z

Version	Product	Comments
8.01.3817	Office 97	Microsoft Outlook 97 Microsoft Exchange Server
10.3117.2625	Outlook 2002	303835 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303835/) The Outlook View Control exposes a security vulnerability in Outlook 2002
10.2930.2625	Outlook 2002	300550 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300550/) Description of the Outlook 2002 Update: June 21, 2001
11.0.5608.5606	Outlook 2003	The original release version of Outlook 2003 was released in October of 2003.
11.0.5608.5703	Outlook 2003	This is a Microsoft Office 2003 critical update that was released on November 4, 2003
10.0.2627.2625	Outlook 2002	The original version of Outlook 2002 is included with all Microsoft Office XP versions
10.0.3513.3501	Outlook 2002 SP1	311573 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311573/) Description of the issues that are fixed in Outlook 2002 by the Office XP Service Pack 1
10.0.4219.4219	Outlook 2002 SP2	325675 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325675/) Description of Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 2
10.0.6515.6626	Outlook 2002	812262 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/812262/) Overview of the Outlook 2002 update: January 22, 2003
10.0.6515.6626	Outlook 2002 SP3	836033 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/836033/) List of the issues that are fixed in Outlook 2002 by Office XP Service Pack 3
9.0.0.2711	Outlook 2000	Microsoft Office 2000 (all versions). Initial release
9.0.0.3011	Outlook 2000	Outlook 2000 E-mail Attachment Security Update.
9.0.0.3821	Outlook 2000	Office 2000 Service Release 1 (SR-1) (or SR-1a)
9.0.0.4105	Outlook 2000	Outlook 2000 E-mail Security Update (BETA)
9.0.0.4201	Outlook 2000	Outlook 2000 E-mail Security Update (Final)
9.0.0.4527	Office 2000 SP2	Microsoft Office 2000 SP-2
9.0.0.5414	Office 2000 SP2	Outlook E-mail Security Update re-released on August 16, 2001
8.0.3511	Office Outlook 97	Release 3511, not Microsoft Outlook 97 Standalone shown in Help About) Microsoft Office 97 Small Business Edition
11.6359.6360	Outlook 2003 SP1	This is the Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 1 release version
11.6568.6568	Outlook 2003 SP2	This is the Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 2 release version

An alternative search engine

2006-10-20T10:48:00Z

I just discovered Ms. Dewey; a search engine written in Flash (with loads of attitude). Well worth looking at when you have some spare time (and the results appear to be coming from live.com)

Internet Explorer 7 released!

2006-10-19T08:48:00Z

Its here! After nearly two years Internet Explorer 7 has been released

Windows Desktop Search and the indexing of files .

2006-10-18T08:31:00Z

I was chatting to a person the other day and they wanted to know how Windows Desktop Search (WDS) indexes different file types.

Specifically I was asked if WDS handled this in a different way to popular search applications like Beagle. Fortunately the answer is simple. WDS uses plug-ins called IFilters to support file types. For example in order for WDS to be able to “understand” an Adobe Acrobat file you would need to have the Acrobat IFilter installed on your machine (installed by default when you install the Adobe Acrobat reader).

For more information on how to write an IFilter there is some great information available at http://addins.msn.com/devguide.aspx#AddingaNewFileType as well as a very comprehensive article located at http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.DesktopSearchIFilters.

Duplicates Remover For Outlook

2006-10-14T00:17:00Z

I have heard many people talk about a duplicate remover for Outlook before. Anyway Rich Tehrani has an interesting blog article on this over here.

Outlook tasks from OneNote shared notebook.

2006-10-11T07:50:00Z

Olya Veselova has an awesome article about assigning Outlook tasks from OneNote shared notebooks over here.

Forcing an alias resolution in Outlook.

2006-10-11T07:44:00Z

Have you ever entered a person’s alias and had the “Check Names” dialogue displayed by the AutoComplete feature? This is something that I have experienced from time to time when sending mail to my colleges. Now don’t get me wrong AutoComplete is an awesome feature when you want to search for a person’s details, but sometimes I just want to force the use of that alias outright. I also want to do this without having to disable AutoComplete.

Well here is a tip to work around this. When you enter the person’s alias precede it with the equals (=) operator. To illustrate this if you where to implicitly force the use of my alias then you would enter it as “=bengay”.

AutoDate is awesome!

2006-10-08T04:11:00Z

I recently discovered the AutoDate feature in Microsoft Outlook. AutoDate allows you to type an English representation of a date (or defined holiday) that Outlook will then convert, to the appropriate date value. To illustrate this typing in the word “Christmas” would be recognized by Outlook and converted to the date value of December the 25^th.

My search efforts on finding more information on this feature have unfortunately been less than successful. The most useful link that I found applied to Outlook 2002 (although it works on Outlook 2007) and mentions that the AutoDate feature works for the following:

Dates that have been spelled out
E.g. Second of January
Date periods
E.g. Tomorrow, Next Week, Week and a half, next month, next year

Times that been spelled out.
E.g. eight AM
Descriptions of times and dates
E.g. Midnight, Midday, noon
Names of Holidays that fall on the same date each year
E.g. Christmas

Let the marketing begin...

2006-10-05T18:28:00Z

The Windows Vista marketing has begun, and it is good! Demetri Martin "hosts" the site Clearification.com which is about Vista. I don’t want to go into a lot of detail talking about the specifics of the site as I want you to be able to get an unbiased look at it. Needless to say I think it is brilliant! Let me know what you think of it.