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Stopping users from opening links in email

While administrator can't prevent users from clicking on links, they can take advantage of a fairly common problem to make the links unclickable. This won't stop clever users from copying the links and pasting them into the browser but it will slow them down.

Outlook's Default Attachment Size

Outlook has a default limit of 20 MB for sending email messages, which is about right for most ISPs. When you try to send a large message, Outlook lets you know that the message is too large before the message is sent to the Outbox. You can change the limit by editing the registry.

How to Send a Forwarded Draft Email

A surprising number of people run into this problem: "A colleague sends me draft emails as attachments to a message. When I open the attachments to revise the emails before sending, the send button is grayed out. How do I send it?" To send the message, you need to move the attachment to your Drafts  

Spell Check is not working?

Many users have a problem with Outlook missing misspelled words. In many cases this happens because the person is typing in the signature field, either accidentally or intentionally.

Outlook Signatures and Spell Check

When Microsoft Outlook thinks your message is part of your signature or spell check doesn't work as expected, the problem is easily fixed.

Do you really want to reply to all?

Warn before replying to all recipients of a message.

Disable Stationery and Fonts using Group Policy

I need to disable the ability of the end-user to modify Stationery and force a default stationery and font. I have found the "font" forcing but not the rest. I was trying to work with control ID but don't know how to find the right ones. You'll need to make at least three changes: 1)  

Automatically BCC All Messages

Outlook doesn't have a built in method you can use to automatically include yourself (or other email address) in the BCC field when you send a new message. You can use Rules Wizard to CC and address but not to send a BCC.

New Mail Notifications from Another Mailbox

If you need to monitor a second Exchange Server mailbox in addition to your own, how can you find out when that mailbox gets new items? We can think of four different methods: Rules You cannot create rules in your own mailbox that operate on items coming into another user's Inbox. However, if you have  

Using Automatic name checking or Autocomplete

May 3 2021 There is a bug in a recent Office update that causes the autocomplete list to go up, not down. The DisableAutoCompleteUpdate registry key may be the trigger for that specific behavior. There are other issues with the updates relating to how autocomplete works. All versions of Outlook support automatic name checking, also  

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