Articles in Configure and Maintain Category

Although Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010's autodiscover feature makes short work of creating profiles, using a PRF to create profiles is still useful, especially if you use a lot of personal folders (*.pst) or have a large number of POP3 and IMAP accounts and are testing Windows betas. Most users will be happy just to  

How to use a batch (.bat) file to backup your Microsoft Outlook personal folders data file.

Microsoft released a configuration analyzer tool for Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010. Similar to the Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer, the results include installed add-ins, installed Office updates, and the accounts that are in your profile.

It’s possible to configure Outlook to automatically compact the pst every time you close Outlook. This can be useful to users who deal with sensitive data and need to ensure messages can’t be recovered as compacting removes all traces of deleted messages, making it impossible to recover the mail.

Outlook 2003 introduced a new file format which supports larger data file size (default is 20 GB) and unlimited messages per data file. This new format is commonly known as "Unicode". To determine which format your pst file is, you need to look on the data file properties dialog. The pst file needs to be  

How to change how often Microsoft Outlook does automatic send and receives, you need to edit the Send and Receive settings.

How to open the More Settings dialog to configure Outgoing (SMTP) server settings, port numbers, and other settings.

Step-by-step instruction to convert from Outlook Express on an older computer to Microsoft Outlook on a new computer with Windows 7 or Windows 8.

Use the 'empty deleted items on exit' option built into Outlook to empty the Deleted Items folder, or use AutoArchive to delete Junk email and deleted items as they age.

How to create an email account that will be used only to send email from a forwarded email address.