Several users came to me after their accounts were migrated to the new Outlook.com servers, looking for help restoring their contact photos, which disappeared in the migration.
Rename Account in the Navigation Pane
How to change the Outlook.com or Exchange filename (usually your email address) in the Navigation pane in Outlook 2016.
Outlook 2016 Sept 2016 Updates
This month's security update includes fixes for the following nonsecurity issues. Office subscribers will have these updates installed automatically. Add OST corruption events. Translate some terms so that the meaning is accurate. Fixes an issue with corrupt forms cache. When a message is sent programmatically, the addresses are not added to the autocomplete cache. A
Change Format for Notes in Appointments
Users can choose HTML, Plain Text, or RTF formatting in the Notes field of an Outlook Appointment. To change the default format, users need to edit the registry.
Junk Mail Filtering in Outlook
On November 1, 2016, Microsoft will stop releasing updates to Junk Email definitions for the Junk Email filter in Outlook and Exchange Server. The junk email filter will continue to work in Outlook, using the last definition installed, it just won't be updated going forward.
Block Macros in Office 2013/2016
The August 9 2016 security update for Office 2013 included a non-security feature to allow administrators to use Group Policy to block macros from running in files that are downloaded from the Internet. This feature was added to Office 2016 earlier this year.
iCloud, Outlook 2016, and Windows 10
Users who sync iCloud and Outlook are having problems with iCloud after installing the Windows 10 Anniversary Update.
Customize a Skype for Business Invitation
An Office 365 user had a problem: their default Skype for Business invitations added phone numbers used by the corporation worldwide but he only created meetings with people in certain locations and wanted to include only those phone numbers in his invitations. He found and wondered if the same method could be used to change
Using @Mentions in Outlook 2016
What is @mentions? When you type @ in the message body and begin typing a name, an autocomplete list pops up.
Shared Calendar Can't Be Deleted
An Office 365 Exchange Online user had a shared calendar he couldn’t delete from Outlook or Outlook on the web. He received a sharing invitation from another user and the shared calendar was added as a subfolder under his calendar when he accepted the sharing invitation. The user later shared his entire mailbox with my