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New Utilities | | CodeTwo Exchange Migration | With CodeTwo Exchange Migration you will be able to migrate from Exchange 2003, 2007, 2010 directly to Exchange 2010, 2013, even if the servers you are migrating between are located in different domains or forests. To prepare the migration, install the software in the source Exchange organization, connect it to the target server and configure relationships between source and target mailboxes. Afterwards just click Start - CodeTwo Exchange Migration will copy the contents of selected mailboxes to the target server without deleting a single item on the source side. Free 30-day CodeTwo Exchange Migration trial. (Jun 13) |
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| | | CodeTwo Office 365 Migration | Use CodeTwo Office 365 Migration to copy users’ mailboxes from Exchange 2007, 2010 and Exchange 2003 directly to Office 365 or Exchange Online. Thanks to the by-users-for-users Administration Panel all important features are available in the main window. The application does not delete data during its operation, creates detailed log files, to facilitate troubleshooting, and additionally provides real-time information about the migration progress. CodeTwo Office 365 Migration can be trialed for 30 days, no strings attached and is free for Office 365 subscribers, owing to the Office 365 Partner of Record program. (Jun 13) |
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| | | Messageware Utility Belt | Utility Belt is a bundle of six simple applets that can be accessed with a single click from within either Outlook or OWA 2013. Messageware Utility Belt contains the following features: Calendar, Calculator, Stopwatch & Countdown Timer, Time Zone conversion tools, Area & Dialing Codes, and a Daily Quote. (Jun 6) |
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| | | WriteThat.name | WriteThat.name detects contact details in your incoming emails signatures, registers new contacts that do not already exist, and updates new details of contacts that you already have – right in your address book! (Jun 5) |
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| | | GO Contact Sync Mod | GO Contact Sync Mod synchronizes your Outlook contacts with your Google Mail address book, including pictures, categories and notes. It also syncs your Outlook Notes on demand to Google Documents. (May 31) |
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| | | Social Contacts | Outlook Contacts lack some key fields to store information about people. With the rise of social media, it's becoming increasingly important to store a person's account name or ID for these web sites. Our latest Outlook Appins, code named "Asgard" (Social Contacts) will finally allow you to keep track of this information in your standard Contact forms with our Social Fields region (task pane). Nearly 20 social media properties are currently supported, including: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Skype, Google+, YouTube, And much more! Free trial. (May 29) |
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| | | ManagePro | ManagePro is a complete project and task management tool for managing goals, projects and people's performance. Extremely versatile in its configuration, it provides a multi-display environment of worksheets, timelines and scorecards, all having the ability to drill down to a lower level of detail with a simple point and click. Includes Outlook integration - drag and drop email onto any project, calendar time slot or to-do list for instant tracking and documentation. Email any record, any report and any written text out of ManagePro while tracking who you sent it to and the content. (May 26) |
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Updated Utilities | | Open Relay Filter (ORF Fusion) | ORFEE supports filtering emails on arrival, which allows delivery path analysis, keyword and attachment filtering and Attachment and keyword filtering so you can drop emails with malicious attachments or replace the attachments with a customizable warning text. Both the keyword and the attachment filtering support using Perl-compatible regular expressions and are Unicode-aware. E-mails caught by the On Arrival filtering point can be dropped, redirected or tagged (header or subject). ORFEE includes a built-in log viewer which allows easy browsing, searching and filtering the logs. Exchange 2013 supported. (Jun 6) |
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| | | Bells & Whistles for Outlook | Bells & Whistles is an Outlook add-in that includes more than 40 different features designed to help you manage and compose emails better and quicker. Bells & Whistles is the result of several years of Outlook add-in programming combined with the daily use of Outlook and lots of feedback received from our customers. The result is an Outlook add-in that smoothly improves your email routine without changing the way you deal with emails. And you’re basically paying less than $1 for each Outlook productivity feature! (Jun 6) |
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| | | Advanced Security for Outlook | Use Advanced Security for Outlook to learn what programs are trying to access Outlook and permanently allow or deny access to the program and the next time it requests access, the action you choose will be automatically executed and Outlook Security will not annoy you with messages about trying to access e-mail addresses you have stored in Outlook. Freeware, available in English, German and Russian. Advanced Security is fully compatible with Windows 8 (32-bit and 64-bit editions) and Microsoft Office 2013 (32-bit editions only). The programs button is available on the ribbon in Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013. (May 31) |
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| | | Directory Search | Directory Search is an easy-to-use web application that turns your Active Directory in to a corporate phonebook. The administrator defines which fields are visible and the search criteria that can be used. Features include displaying each user’s photo (from the thumbnailPhoto attribute) and exporting search results to CSV or Excel. (May 30) |
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| | | Reminders By Email | Reminders by E-mail gives Outlook the ability to send Reminders (for tasks, appointments and mail messages) to another email address. Each reminder e-mail that is sent to your forwarding address will include the subject, body and start and end dates of the reminder-enabled item. Compatible with Outlook 2000-2013, 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Compatible with Windows XP - Windows 8. (May 29) |
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| | | Directory Manager | Directory Manager is a customizable web application that allows a designated user to update other user's information in the Active Directory through an easy-to-use tool. The administrator designates which attributes can be updated. Drop-down lists, format validation, search filtering, and photo uploads (for use in Outlook 2010/2013 and Lync) can all be configured. Other features include the ability to unlock/enable/disable user accounts and password resets. (May 26) |
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| | | Directory Update | Directory Update is a "self-service" web application that allows a user to update their own information in the Active Directory and thus in the Global Address List (GAL). The web interface is customizable so that a user can provide only valid information (such as city, department, title) and the telephone number format can be validated. Other features include photo uploads, SMTP email notification of changes, auditing, and optional forgot-password and resource domain modules. (May 26) |
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| | | Copy attachment names when replying | When you use RTF and Reply to a message that had attachments, the attachment names are added to the message body. When you use HTML or plain text messages the attachment name is not added to the message body. But you can use a macro to grab the attachment names from the original message and insert them into the reply or reply all. (Jun 12) |
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| | | Keyboard shortcuts for Outlook | How well could you manage in Outlook if your toolbars disappeared or your mouse died? It's really not that hard to navigate using keyboard shortcuts. (May 30) |
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| | | Calendar Reminders are missing in Outlook 2013 | Outlook 2013 doesn't set reminders on All Day Events when you open the new appointment form by double clicking on a date in the month. If you untick All Day Event to make it a timed appointment, the reminder is not added automatically. If you click and type on a date, a reminder is not added. This is a change in behavior from previous versions. Until this is fixed, I have a macro that sets the reminder when you open a new all day event form. (May 26) |
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| | | Sync calendar and contacts using Outlook.com | How to use a Microsoft account address with a Outlook.com account to sync appointments and contact with other computers or smartphones. This method works with the Outlook Connector in Outlook 2003, Outlook 2007, and Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013's EAS account type. (May 2) |
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| | | Select multiple calendars in Outlook | Use a VBA macro to select multiple Outlook calendars and open them in overlay mode. Works with Outlook 2007 and up (but not needed in Outlook 2013 if the calendars are in a group.) (Apr 4) |
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Administrator Resources | | Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer | Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer is a web-based tool that provides administrators and end users with the ability to run connectivity diagnostics for servers to test common issues with Microsoft Exchange, Lync and Office 365. The tool started as Microsoft Exchange Server Remote Connectivity Analyzer, and tests connectivity with Lync and Office 365, and tests for Outlook Anywhere, Exchange Web Services, outbound SMTP, Office 365 Single Sign-On test, and support for 10 additional languages. (May 1) |
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| | | PST Capture | PST Capture 2.0 is used to discover and import Outlook Personal Folder (.pst) File Format files into Exchange Server and Exchange Online. PST Capture helps an organization that wishes to gain more control over their email data repositories by placing them into Exchange. From Microsoft. Now supports Exchange 2013. (Feb 25) |
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| | | Create Shared Mailboxes with GUI-based Tool | Microsoft created a GUI-based tool for Office 365 administrators to use to create and configure a shared mailbox, and then assign permissions to a security group so members can open the shared mailbox and send messages from it. (Jun 12) |
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| | | Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI Client and Collaboration Data Objects 1.2.1 | CDO 1.2.1 (Collaboration Data Objects, version 1.2.1) is a package providing access to Outlook-compatible objects through a COM-based API. Using either CDO or MAPI, a program can connect to a MAPI store, and then perform operations against that store. Starting with Exchange 2007, Microsoft will distribute the MAPI client libraries and CDO 1.2.1 as a Web download. Now supported on Windows 2008 and Vista. Version 6.5.8147.0 (Oct 26) |
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| | | What's new for Outlook 2013 developers | A top-level view of the additions and enhancements for developers in Microsoft Outlook 2013, including mail apps, third party weather data services for the Weather Bar, and inline response. The document also describes changes to the Outlook Social Connector, Office Mobile Service, support for Outlook 2013 Preview coexisting with a previous version of Outlook, and new performance criteria for add-ins. (May 6) |
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| | | Redemption | Update added support for Outlook 2013. Version 5.5 (May 1) |
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| | | MFCMapi | MFCMAPI uses Microsoft's published APIs to provide access to MAPI stores through a graphical user interface. Its purpose is to facilitate investigation of Exchange and Outlook issues and to provide developers with a canonical sample for MAPI development. Updated frequently. (Mar 28) |
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| | | OutlookSpy | This update adds full support for the final version of Outlook 2007. It has a new hex viewer and editor for the binary (PT_BINARY) MAPI properties, a new script editor ("Script Editor" window and "Script" tab for the IDispatch-derived objects), along with several new symbolic MAPI property tags. Supports Outlook 2013 and Windows 8. (Mar 12) |
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| | | Copy Outlook Journal Entries to OneNote | The Journal is on life-support in Outlook 2013 and one option for replacing Outlook's Journal is to use OneNote. If you go this route, you can use VBA to copy selected journal entries to OneNote pages. (Aug 25) |
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Other Resources | | Macro to create two tasks from an email message | 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. This code creates a task in a pst file with the message attached and one in the Outlook.com Tasks without the attachment. Can be used in any situation where you need a task in your default task folder and in a second folder. Easily changed to work with appointments (or contacts). (May 17) |
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| | | Moving Outlook 2010 to a new Windows computer | Did you get a new computer for Christmas? Step-by-step instructions to move Outlook to a new Windows 7 or 8 computer. I also have instructions for moving from Outlook 2003 to Outlook 2010 on a new computer. (Apr 18) |
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| | | Dual Time Zone & DST Calendar Display Bug | There is a limitation in the dual time zone display when daylight time goes into effect. When you use dual time zones in Outlook and the default zone is west of the secondary zone, an extra hour is added to the time scale for the Sunday DST goes into effect. If you view multiple dates and begin with that Sunday, the (incorrect) scale is used so it appears Outlook has the times wrong. Open appointments and reminders will be correct, only the Day and week views are affected. (Mar 14) |
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| | | Business Contact Manager for Outlook Database Tool | The Business Contact Manager for Outlook Database Tool allows administrators to host Business Contact Manager for Outlook databases on a computer on which Microsoft Office 2013 and Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2013 are not installed, such as a different server. (Feb 27) |
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