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New Utilities | | Report Attender | Report Attender is a data analysis tool designed to help organizations answer critical questions about the content, age, size, and importance of electronically stored information. This stand-alone application gathers and distills important details to identify the items that are stored in your network shares and email servers. Summary reports, drill down views, vibrant charts, and custom options provided by Report Attender assist you in making informed decisions for early case assessment (a pre-cursor to e-discovery), administration, litigation, compliance and much more. (May 9) |
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| | | SysTools AddPST | SysTools AddPST for all MS Outlook users who are waiting for a tool that can open & add multiple PST files at once in Outlook and also shows number of files with their name which are corrupted or not able to open with MS Outlook. SysTools AddPST is a such tool that has both functionality; users can not only open multiple PST files at once but also get the list of files which are corrupted ot failed to open. Get the SysTools AddPST tool and easily add PST files to Outlook 2003, 2000, 2010. (May 9) |
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| | | Lepide Exchange Manager | Lepide Exchange Manager is a comprehensive solution to manage diversified areas of Exchange server with the facility to search, export and recover emails from live exchange mailboxes, exchange backups and PST files. (May 8) |
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| | | Messageware OWA Client Suite | The Messageware OWA Client Suite enhances Outlook Web App/Access with Outlook-like functionality most requested by OWA users, allowing corporations to deploy OWA with confidence while enhancing business productivity and user efficiency. The Messageware OWA Client Suite combines our award-winning client-side applications into one cost-effective bundle, and it is compatible and easily incorporated with On-Premise, Office 365, and Hosted Exchange environments for Exchange 2007 and 2010. (May 8) |
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| | | Memotoo | Backup and synchronize your personal data (contacts, calendar, files, bookmarks, etc.)with your phone, tablet and computer (May 7) |
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| | | Zendio | Email tracking service notifies you when your recipient reads your email and clicked on any links included in the email. Email analytics also available. (Apr 26) |
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| | | MXAlerts | MXAlerts performs 24/7 remote round-trip email monitoring, which confirms email can be sent and received from an email server. We automatically send your server an email every few minutes, and your server automatically replies. If we don’t hear back from your server, we alert you that something’s not right. (Apr 26) |
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Updated Utilities | | Messageware CalendarPack for OWA | Messageware CalendarPack adds Outlook-like calendaring features to OWA and provides users with the ability to manage delegate rights from within OWA by setting permission levels to allow others to view/edit/manage calendars on their behalf. It also provides the ability to import national/religious holidays and company events, and gives OWA Light users back missing and critical functionality, such as interactive appointment reminders, advanced searching capabilities, and different calendar views. (May 8) |
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| | | Messageware ActiveSend for OWA | Messageware ActiveSend completely integrates OWA with the computer and desktop applications to provide users with increased Outlook-like convenience and productivity. With ActiveSend, it is possible to send email directly from within desktop applications and websites by enabling the “SendTo” and “Mail to” commands with OWA as the default email; two functions that are not natively available. Messageware ActiveSend integrates easily with On-Premise, Office 365, and Hosted Exchange environments. (May 8) |
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| | | Messageware Plus Pack for OWA | Messageware Plus Pack makes OWA resemble Outlook by seamlessly integrating essential features most requested by users familiar with Outlook, thereby enhancing usability and user productivity. Some key features include intuitive addressing from public folders and SharePoint lists, rolodex-style address book, roaming personal dictionaries, advanced searching and calendar views/reminders, and an interactive new mail notification that allows the user to see/read/reply/forward/delete new messages. (May 8) |
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| | | Messageware OWA Server Suite | The Messageware OWA Server Suite provides corporations and OWA users with essential security and productivity features that are not natively available in Outlook Web App/Access to provide a richer, more secure web mail solution and a more familiar environment for users migrating to OWA from Outlook. The Messageware OWA Server Suite combines 6 of our award-winning server-side applications into one cost-effective bundle and is available for all versions of Exchange. (May 8) |
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| | | Add Email Address | Add Email Address is an Outlook add-in that puts people you reply to in Contacts. It can also scan your Inbox and create contacts out of all those email addresses. It now supports Outlook 2010, both 32-bit and 64-bit. (May 3) |
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| | | Lookeen | Lookeen enables Outlook users to browse all data in e-mails, contacts, appointments, tasks or notices in a fast, easy and slick way. Relevant information is at the user's fingertips within a few seconds, and search results covering all file attachments, archive and exchange folders is presented in a transparent manner. Now with real-time indexing. Supports Outlook 2003, 2007, 2010 including 64-bit Outlook 2010. Version 8 (May 2) |
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| | | Sync2 for Outlook | Synchronizing Outlook between computers made easy with Sync2, powerful Microsoft Outlook synchronization add-in. Sync Outlook folders (email, calendar, contacts, tasks and notes) between multiple PCs without a server. Synchronize Outlook data using shared folder on LAN, USB drive or FTP. Share Outlook Calendar with Google Calendars. Sync Google Contacts with Outlook Contacts. Synchronize Outlook 2007, 2003, 2002 and Outlook 2010 automatically. The new version offers one-way synchronization with Google Calendar and Contacts. Version 2.20 (Apr 18) |
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Also New | | Send an email when an Appointment reminder fires | Another entry in my Lazy Programmer Series, this time I have a macro that sends an email message when a reminder fires. This macro was the result of a request for the ability to send messages to the sales team each morning with the day's agenda. You can use the macro to send yourself reminders or even to compose an email message ahead of time (in the body of a an appointment form) and send it later. Outlook will need to be running and be able to connect to the mail server for the message to be generated and sent. (May 8) |
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| | | Create a series of Tasks using VBA | VBA code sample to creates three new tasks based on one task, with the start and due dates of the each task in the series 2 - 5 days after the previous task. A second code sample that creates tasks from a selected appointment, with each task due in the days leading up to the appointment. The code can be tweaked to create a series or tasks or appointments from an email message or other Outlook items. (Apr 26) |
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| | | iCloud and Outlook Problems | 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. (Apr 26) |
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| | | Keep Canceled Meetings on Outlook’s Calendar | If you want Microsoft Outlook to keep a history of all appointments, including canceled meetings, you can to use VBA to save copies of canceled meetings before they are deleted from your calendar. (Apr 23) |
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| | | How to Reply or Reply to All with Attachments | Outlook does not include attachments when you use Reply or Reply to All, however a simple macro will allow you to reply with the attachments that were included on the original message. (Apr 23) |
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| | | Save Messages as *.DOC File Type | Do you want to save Outlook messages to the hard drive in *.doc format. While you can do this in Outlook, it takes several steps. We have a VBA macro that saves it for you in one click. (Apr 23) |
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Administrator Resources | | Office 2010 Migration Guides | Guides for Microsoft Access 2010, Excel 2010, OneNote 2010, Outlook 2010, PowerPoint 2010, Word 2010 with answers to common questions about making the transition to Office 2010 programs. These guides are particularly suitable if you’re converting from Office 2003, but a lot of the information is just as relevant if you’re switching from other versions. (PDF format) (Sep 8) |
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| | | Office 2010 Click-to-Run | The “Click to Run” version (C2R) is virtualized and can run side-by-side with your current installation which makes it great for trials but there are some limitations: Outlook 2010 C2R will not use add-ins and external programs (including sync software)will not see Outlook C2R; for example, mailto’s will not use Outlook 2010 because it is not registered as nor can it be the default email client. You can switch between either version at any time but cannot use both at the same time. While the limitations are annoying for regular use, it’s workable for people who want to try Outlook or need to support Outlook 2010 but aren’t ready to move to it for daily use. (Jul 27) |
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| | | Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2010 (KB976573) | This resolves issues that were found in Exchange Server 2010 since the software was released, including minor updates to calendaring, OWA, and transport. This update rollup is highly recommended for all Exchange Server 2010 customers. It is required to use BES with Exchange server 2010. (Dec 10) |
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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 (Dec 10) |
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| | | Best Practices for Microsoft Outlook 2007 | This whitepaper provides Outlook 2007 users guidance on how to best use the product. It was created by the product team who created Outlook 2007 and represents their advice on how to get the most out of Outlook 2007. Although it is targeted to Exchange server users in larger corporate environments, all Outlook users can benefit from some of the content. Available online or in DOC or PDF format. (Dec 4) |
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| | | Exchange Server 2010 RTM | Exchange 2010 is now available to the public. Download a 120 day trial to install on your hardware or a virtual disk for testing. Online trials also available. (Nov 12) |
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Development Resources | | 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. (Apr 25) |
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| | | Redemption | Supports Outlook 2010 64-bit (and 32-bit versions of Outlook). Version 5.1 (Sep 12) |
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| | | 101 Samples for Office 2010 Development | Use these 101 samples to create your own Office applications that perform specific functions, or as a starting point to create more complex solutions. Each code sample consists of approximately 5 to 50 lines of code demonstrating a distinct feature or feature set in VBA. While most of the code samples are for Excel, Word, and Powerpoint, there are 4 samples for Outlook. There are also samples available for OneNote, Office, and Visio. (Aug 29) |
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| | | Office 2010 Developer Training Course | Office 2010 is a broadly extensible platform for building Information Worker productivity solutions and developing for Office with Visual Studio 2010 makes this easy. The Office 2010 Developer Training Course includes videos, presentations, hands-on labs and source code. This content is designed to help you get started developing solutions, from Add-ins to full featured Office Business Applications (OBAs), using Visual Studio 2010 with Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 as the core platform. (Aug 13) |
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| | | Automating Search Highlighting in Outlook 2010 | This Visual How To describes a search highlighting add-in for Microsoft Outlook 2010 that uses the Outlook Instant Search feature to find items that contain a search term, and then uses the Word object model to open an Outlook item in an inspector and highlight the search term. This Visual How To describes what the tool does and explains the add-in code. This Visual How To also describes some associated extensibility features of the ribbon component of the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface (UI). (Apr 21) |
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| | | Add-in Express Regions for Outlook and VSTO | An extension for Visual Studio Tools for Office that allows you to create view and form regions for Outlook Explorer and Inspector windows. You can customize several Outlook panes including Navigation pane, Reading pane, Folder view pane, Outlook super grid pane, To-Do Bar and Inspector windows such as e-mail, task and appointment windows. Visual Studio 2010 and 2008 with VSTO installed (C# and VB.NET), Outlook 2003, 2007 and 2010 (32-bit, 64-bit) are supported. (Mar 17) |
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Other Resources | | 5-minute makeovers for Outlook 2010 | Microsoft released several Outlook email templates and signatures samples. Use the samples for your email or as a base for your own templates. Video showing how the templates were created is also available. These templates work in all versions of Outlook, however they are affected by "the template bug", which was fixed by the July 11 2011 hotfix. Templates for other Office applications are available in the 5 minute make-over series. (Aug 18) |
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| | | New Poll: Do you use Outlook's Journal? | As Journal users are painfully aware, Outlook 2010's Contact Activities do not include the journal in the search results. Outlook 2010 also does not give users the ability to change which folders are included in the Activities search. Microsoft did this because their data shows a small (but passionate) number Outlook users use the Journal. Are you part of this exclusive group? As always, the poll is open to everyone. (Registration required only for comments.) (Aug 2) |
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| | | Office 2010 SP1 released | Office 2010 SP1 was released 6/2011 and is available on Microsoft Update. Office 2010 SP1 consists of cumulative and public updates to date for the various applications that are part of the Office suite. Many previously released hotfixes for Outlook are included in SP1. New fixes include the ability to set an account as the default sending account, snooze times now include "minutes before" as in older versions. For a list of all issues addressed in SP1, see Description of Office 2010 SP1. OneNote users will want to look over the long list of OneNote improvements. (Jun 28) |
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| | | Microsoft Technical Chats | Chat with Office and Windows MVPs - October 14, 2010; Chat with Sharepoint MVPs - various dates. (Sep 29) |
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| | | Using Outlook 2010 with or without Word 2010 installed | Although the Word-based e-mail editor built into Outlook 2010 does not require that Word 2010 be installed, additional features and commands are available when you install Word 2010 with Outlook 2010. This article compares the features and commands available with or without Word 2010 installed. (Aug 31) |
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| | | Choose the 32-bit or 64-bit version of Microsoft Office | Office 2010 provides support for the 32-bit version of Office 2010 programs running on 64-bit operating systems by using WOW64, a compatibility environment provided by the operating system that allows a 32-bit application to run on a Windows 64-bit operating system. Using the 32-bit version of Office 2010 allows people to continue to use existing third-party add-ins for Office that are 32-bit. The 32-bit version of Office 2010 is the recommended option for most users, because it prevents potential compatibility issues with other 32-bit applications, specifically third-party add-ins that are available only for 32-bit operating systems.
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| | | New Ways to Try and Buy Microsoft Office 2010 | Users of new PCs preloaded with Office will be able to purchase a Product Key Card containing a single license card (no DVD media) from retail stores. The key code will unlock Office and enables any one of three full versions of Office –Home & Student, Home & Business, or Professional. Additionally, Microsoft is replacing Works with a cut down version of Office called Office Starter 2010. Office Starter 2010 is a reduced-functionality, advertising-supported version of Office 2010, available only on new PCs. Office Starter 2010 gives users a simple path to upgrade to a full version of Office 2010 directly from within the product (with a product key card). For those users who want to try (or buy) Office 2010, on their current computer, they will be able to download Click-to-Run. Click-to-Run uses virtualization technology, allowing users to maintain multiple versions of Office so they can try Office 2010 side-by-side with the existing version of Office. (Oct 9) |
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