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Create tasks for outlook.com and a second Tasks folder

This VBA code sample is the result of a discussion in the Microsoft Answers forum. Because of recent changes at Outlook.com, tasks, appointments, and contacts do not support attachments. You can add attachments to the items in Outlook 2013, but the attachments are hidden.

Attachments are hidden in Outlook.com tasks and appointments

Because of recent changes at Outlook.com, tasks, appointments, and contacts do not support attachments. You can add attachments to the items in Outlook 2013, but the attachments are hidden.

Meetings are not removed when the invitation is deleted

When a meeting invitation is deleted from the Inbox, the tentative copy of the associated meeting remains in the Calendar.

Disable the ability to create tentative appointments

Note: this will stop Outlook and Exchange from creating tentative appointments on the calendar automatically, however, the tentative appointment will be created at the time you select the meeting request in your Inbox. Exchange Server 2013 The administrator can use this cmdlet to prevent tentative appointments meeting requests received from users outside of your network.  

Delete the Junk Email Rule in Exchange mailboxes

When the junk mail is not filtering correctly, you can delete the junk mail rules in Outlook when you use an Exchange mailbox.

Encourage Users to Set an End Date on Recurring Appointments

Recurring appointments are a problem for many users: you can't end a series without losing exceptions and no one can cancel meetings created by users who no longer have a mailbox. For this reason, we always recommend using a recurrence period of no more than a year.

Create a journal entry for Word documents in Outlook 2013

I don't recommend that new users start using the Journal, but if anyone who used journal with an older version of Outlook and upgraded to Outlook 2013, can use a bit of VBA magic to autojournal documents.

Restrictions in effect: why Adobe is wrong to install Chrome by default

I know I'm not the only person who is totally frustrated with software companies that decide to push other software on us. They do it because they get paid for every instance they install and they make a lot more money when the user is required to opt-out because very few people will opt-in. It's wrong in every way.

Fixed: Too many devices when accessing Hotmail with Outlook 2013

With the introduction of Outlook 2013 and support for EAS, users are discovering that Hotmail has limits to the number of devices they can connect using ActiveSync.