by William Lefkovics
To provide Microsoft Exchange Server with some basic content
filtering, Microsoft pulled from their wealth of experience with
their spam-magnet known as Hotmail. Smartscreen technology is what
they termed their set of algorithms developed to assess the
probability that an email message was spam. With the goal of
applying this heuristic filter technology across all email
franchises at Microsoft, SmartScreen was first deployed within MSN8,
Hotmail and Outlook in the form of the Junk Email Filter. The
Exchange implementation of SmartScreen is called the Intelligent
Message Filter (IMF).
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Outlook 2007 has a few new or missing features that annoy users.
Here are six things that I'm frequently asked about.
Compressed Weekends
Because of issues with the new calendar overlay, the ability to
compress weekends in the month view is gone. I can't say I'm sad
because compressed weekends caused a lot of confusion near the end
of any month if first day of the month feel on a weekend day. See
'Outlook displays the end of last month, not Today' (
http://www.slipstick.com/calendar/wrongdate.htm) for more
information about this problem.
Week view
The Calendar module also lost another view - the Week view, also
because of problems making it work with the overlay. Given a choice
between these views and overlays, I'll take overlays every time.
Printing
As I've mentioned in the past, Outlook has never had good printing
capabilities and Outlook 2007 is worse than the earlier versions,
thanks to in part to a bug in calendar printing. It uses the Outlook
printing engine for everything now so you can't use simple
workarounds to access Word's or Internet Explorer's print engine.
Fortunately, the Calendar Printing Assistant fixes many of the
shortcomings. Now if we only had email and contact printing
assistants: there are some third party printing tools available. See
'Calendar Printing Tools for Outlook'
(
http://www.slipstick.com/addins/calendar_print.asp) for the
Calendar Printing Assistant and 'Mail Tools for Microsoft Outlook'
(
http://www.slipstick.com/addins/mail_tools.asp) for additional
printing tools.
Remove calendars from Navigation pane
Outlook 2003 allows you to right click on a calendar in your My
Calendars list and remove it from the list. It remains in your
mailbox and is accessible from the folder list. Outlook 2007 removed
this option and only allows you to delete the calendar, as in delete
it from your mailbox. The behavior is the same for all folders in
Outlook, but it seems like most people don't try to remove other
folders from the view. The fix: move the folders to a new group on
the navigation pane then collapse the group.
Reminder icons on appointments
In an attempt at making the views cleaner, the little reminder bell
is gone in the Day/Week/Month view. You'll need to use a table view
to see which appointments have a reminder.
Free Busy colors
Free/busy coloration is also different, with the blue "busy" bar
missing from appointments. Appointments marked "free" have visible a
white bar along the left edge, with tentative and out of office
appointments displaying a hashed or purple bar. However, all day
events identified as Busy and marked with a color category colorize
the day, creating a patchwork of colors in the month view.
A question was asked: Can you set the defaults for reminders and
free/busy state to have one hour reminders and always be busy by
default?
The default time for reminders on timed appointments can be changed.
Look in Tools, Options, Preferences tab. All day events will always
default to 18 hours and cannot be changed.
Free/Busy status does not have an option to set a default status,
but in this case, it's not necessary since appointments default to
Busy. If this isn't your experience, you aren't creating new
appointment using the New button or by clicking on a time period in
the day or week view. If you were, Busy would be the default. If you
click on a date in the month grid, you're creating all day events
which, by default, are always Free. Out-of-Office and Tentative need
to be selected when you make the appointment.
If you need to change the Free/busy setting on several appointments
you can use a Group by view to change all items at once. Add the
'Show time as' field to your view and group by it. Drag appointments
between the groups to change their status.
A bad file in a Cloudmark anti-spam tools update installed recently
is causing Outlook to crash. Logs will show an error in NTDLL.DLL
and you may have some installer errors.
If you are affected, you won't need to uninstall Cloudmark to fix
the problem, you only need to download a file which contains the
fix. See
ttp://www.cloudmark.com/desktop/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1062 for more
information
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