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Great post from Josh. Although I admit I'm biased about #4 on his list...
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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
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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,
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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
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If you're like me and do a lot of copying content from other applications into Word and Outlook, you're probably very accustomed to using the paste smarttag to choose whether or not to use the source or destination formatting on paste. If you're tired
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A coworker asked me today if I knew how to count up the total number of folders in his mailbox, in the process of troubleshooting a bug related to having a large number of folders. I had an old script that recursed through a mailbox to count the total
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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
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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
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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
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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
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For certain types of folders, you may find it useful to have the folder list display the total number of items in the folder, not just the unread items (which it does by default). For example, I set this on some folders that contain messages to certain
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See if Raymond's tip works for you.
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While ego surfing I just ran across this handy list of cheat sheets that I wanted to share. Covers topics from HTML to networking to office apps to keyboard shortcuts to SCSI to math. Handy.
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Here's Part One . OK this isn't really a continuation of the history, but rather some more rambling on some of what I discussed in part one. I just wanted an excuse to say "Part Deux". After the news reports about the first big email-borne viruses like
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Several times in the last few months I've needed to send the exact same mail content to a list of people, but each mail had to be separately addressed, for the following reasons: I am expecting each recipient to reply and continue the thread with me.
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