Outlook’s Social Connector and Contacts Sync

By Diane Poremsky January 30, 2012

When the social connector is enabled in Microsoft Outlook and you have an Exchange mailbox, the social connector will sync changes in the GAL to contacts. It requires the user add contacts from the GAL to the local contact folder. (Many users save contacts so they can sync with phones or to have the contacts  

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Outlook Social Connector’s Add to Facebook page 404′s

By Diane Poremsky January 27, 2012

Wow. This bug may be fixed in record time! A few short weeks ago a user reported the Add to Facebook feature in Outlook's social connector went to a page not found. Ever since the first MapIt feature broke when Microsoft changed the URLs for MSN maps, I've disliked third-party web integration because it’s so  

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Tasks: How do I… ?

By Diane Poremsky January 27, 2012

We get a lot of questions (and complaints) about Tasks so this week I'm going to cover the more common questions. Is there an easy way to move a task to a new due date? Sure. If you use a Group by Due date view, you can easily drag a task to a new date.  

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Create a List of Rules

By Diane Poremsky January 4, 2012

Valk Beekman wanted to share this VBA code sample that creates a text file containing a list of the rules used by the default email account. When the rule contains an email address, the address (or display name) is added to the output. It needs a little tweaking to list all the actions and conditions  

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Create Toolbar Buttons to Open Templates and Files

By Diane Poremsky August 29, 2011

To open Outlook in Safe mode: Close Outlook then hold Ctrl as you click on the Outlook icon. You’ll get a message asking if you want to start in Safe mode. Click Ok. To open a template you need to go through the Choose From dialog, which is a few more steps than most users  

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iCloud and Outlook Problems

By Diane Poremsky October 20, 2011

We're seeing a lot of questions (and complaints) about the new iCloud service and Outlook integration. Users with POP3 accounts seem to have the most problems (but could benefit the most from iCloud), since the data is local to one computer and iCloud moves it all into the cloud. We have solutions to many of the problems.

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Using BCM with a Windows 7 Homegroup

By Diane Poremsky December 18, 2011

Windows 7 introduces HomeGroups to make it easier for end-users to securely network two or more computers, however homegroups are not without their problems. I am trying to share BCM within a homegroup. I have gone through the wizard multiple times to set up the sharing of the database but the when I try to  

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Outlook Error: General failure. The system cannot find file specified.

By Diane Poremsky October 10, 2011

When you click on a link in an Outlook email, you may receive the following error message: General failure. The URL was: “http://www.some-web-address.com” The system cannot find the file specified. This really isn’t an Outlook error, it’s a browser error, but most users will discover it when they click on a link in an Outlook  

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