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We occasionally get complaints from people who are using a group by view on Contacts and they have two groups of "(none)", often when grouping by Company or Country (because they are common fields to group by), but grouping by almost any field can result in two different (none) groups. This can happen with contacts  

We're often asked if there is a way to force people to send an accept message, when the appointment goes into their calendar.

The most annoying problem with multiple Exchange accounts in an Outlook 2010 profile is the ridiculous number of calendar and contact folders cluttering up the navigation pane. There are ways to deal with the extra folders.

When you create a meeting request in a secondary calendar, you'll get a message that responses to the meeting request won't tally because the meeting is not in your default calendar: This meeting is not in the Calendar folder for this account. Responses to this meeting will not be tallied. Do you want to send anyway?

How to customize the look and behavior of Outlook's new Contact cards. For Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013.

How to apply rules or automatic formatting to messages and meetings with people in specific categories.

I'm getting meeting requests outside of my working hours. Is it possible to set Outlook to automatically decline meeting requests that are outside of these hours? Or at least notify the person sending the meeting request? You can't control it within Outlook. If it's a problem, create appointments for non-working time and mark them busy  

While you can create a custom form that will apply to all new contacts, the business card image on existing contacts won't be updated. This is to preserve any business cards you may have already updated. If you really want to update the business card image on your contacts, you can use VBA to quickly make the change. We have code samples to change both the card image and the layout with BusinessCardLayoutXml.

A common request is how to make recurring appointments for every x number of workdays. Unfortunately Outlook does not offer this type of recurring option. You can use a third party add-in, WS:Repeat Appointment II, to create recurrences not supported by Outlook. If this is a frequent need, its well worth the cost but if  

When the social connector is enabled in Microsoft Outlook and you have an Exchange mailbox, the social connector will sync changes in the GAL to contacts. This can be controlled or disabled using a group policy.