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By KC Lemson [MS]

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7 Things you can't say on the internet
Great post from Josh. Although I admit I'm biased about #4 on his list... Read More...
You've come a long way, baby
Outlook 2000:   Outlook 2007:   Breath with me now: Ahhhhh...   I was an Outlook tester during the 2000 release; when the icon was first released internally, we were harshly critical of it in a very public way - it sucks to be the product Read More...
What contributes to information overload?
Following on to my short rant yesterday , I wanted to share some information from a survey we did about a year ago. We surveyed ~1400 people[1] about their email management habits, how overloaded they felt, if they used conversation views, folders, filters/rules, Read More...
It's *information* overload, not email overload
I am so tired of reading blog posts that point the finger at email and imply that the problem is that we have too much email and that the solution are other technology streams, 1:many communication, etc. Guess what folks, email has 1:many too, call them Read More...
Least obvious yet terribly useful Outlook/OWA calendaring feature...
While reviewing some custom OWA themes we're developing, one of the designers pointed out this odd orange mark halfway through one of the numbers on the calendar view, wondering if it was a bug in the CSS in the custom theme: Actually, it's one of these Read More...
Ideas for new Outlook macros?
An email with a coworker who was recently acquired and is getting accustomed to Outlook after years with PINE reminded me that it's been a while since I wrote any Outlook macros. Plus, I just need an excuse to write some code, I haven't written any in Read More...
Quickly view the internet headers of a message in Outlook
Just about anyone who runs mail servers needs to look at headers from time to time. This is especially true during the development of product such as Exchange, as we track down and fix bugs. I wrote this little macro to make that a little easier. Select Read More...
Threepeat
Today is the third anniversary of my first blog post . A whole lot has happened (and been blogged) in those years, including events such as: I changed jobs I started the Exchange blog (2 million hits a month later...) I helped release the custom quota Read More...
The history of attachment security in Outlook, part 1 [1]
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 Read More...
How to give other people permission to non-standard folders
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 Read More...
The permissions tab on my calendar folder is missing
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 Read More...
Archives from Exchange & Outlook Magazine available online
One of my Exchange MVPs just pointed me at this great archive: http://www.ftponline.com/archives/magazines/exchange/ . Read More...
Common problems when enabling RPC/HTTP(s) in Outlook 2003
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 something Read More...
Excellent Outlook 2003 white paper available
David points to a great new white paper about Outlook 2003, bandwidth consumption and related issues. Read More...
The Exchange team blog launched today
I'm excited to announce that we finally got this off the ground, and a lot of great people are going to be participating in it: http://blogs.msdn.com/exchange/ Read More...
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