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Today's Highlights:
- Outlook.com: Manage Subscriptions
- Disable Outlook Archiving Options
- Show location schedule on calendar
Outlook.com: Manage Subscriptions
The Outlook.com product team began rolling the new Manage Subscriptions feature out to users late last year. All Outlook.com accounts should have an option for Manage Subscriptions in Settings now.
Where does the list come from? After the junk mail is filtered out, Microsoft looks for information in the message header that identifies it as a subscription.
What it does: Manage Subscription is list of all senders whose messages contain subscription information in the message. Included is an Unsubscribe button and Outlook.com will try to unsubscribe you. This is great for legitimate subscriptions, such as newsletter or stores you’ve purchased from before.
However, many users discovered their subscription list is full of spammers and fake subscriptions. They cannot (and should not) try to unsubscribe from the fake subscriptions. If the link works, it will verify your address is good (which will lead to more spam) and the unsubscribe link may lead to a page full of malware.
Until Microsoft adds a Delete button, users are stuck with the spam subscriptions on their subscriptions list.
Vote for and share your comments in this Uservoice suggestion: Problem with "Manage Subscriptions" & Junk Email
Disable Outlook Archiving Options
An administrator was looking for a way to disable Manual Archiving to prevent his users from archiving mail in Outlook.
You can use a group policy to disable archiving. If you are using the Group Policy templates, under Outlook\Outlook Options\AutoArchive.
With the policy set to disable Clean Up (manual archive) button, disablemanualarchive value is added to this key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\office\16.0\outlook\preferences
DWORD: disablemanualarchive
Value: 1To disable AutoArchiving, you need to add the doaging value (to the same key as Clean Up). (This disables the check box to enable AutoArchiving, it doesn’t disable the button, but will prevent users from enabling it):
DWORD: doaging
Value: 0
It’s also possible to disable the Clean Up (manual archive) command and the AutoArchive folder properties button on the ribbon by setting a value in the disabledcmdbaritemslist key.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\office\xx.0\outlook\disabledcmdbaritemslist
String Value: TCID1 (if you are disabling other commands, replace 1 with the the next consecutive)
Value: 1886 (Clean Up button)
String Value: TCID2 (if you are disabling other commands, replace 2 with the the next consecutive)
Value: 19701 (Archive Settings)Show location schedule on calendar
This is a common scenario with users who work in multiple offices or locations:
Is there a way of denoting usual working locations without having to block these as appointments? It's not always necessary for me to be marked as 'busy' when I'm just using blocks to show other people where I am, not what I'm doing.
While Outlook doesn’t have a built-in option to do this (Working elsewhere blocks off the time as busy), as long as your coworkers can see your calendar, including appointments that are marked Free, create appointments with your location as the subject and mark the me as Free.
If your coworkers only see the Free/Busy, use a tentative appointment if you will be available for appointments and busy (or working elsewhere) if you won’t be available.
I recommend voting for the suggestion at UserVoice: location schedule on calendar
New & Updated Exchange KB Articles
'The action cannot be completed' error when you select many recipients in the Address Book of Outlook in Exchange Server 2016 and 2013
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4487603
'The Microsoft Exchange Replication service may not be running on server' error when you add a mailbox database copy in Exchange Server 2019
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4488398
'There are problems with the signature' error occurs for digital signature message if attachment filtering is enabled in Exchange Server 2019 and 2016
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4488265
Can't configure voice mail options when user is in different domain in Exchange Server 2016
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4488077
Client application doesn't honor EwsAllowList in Exchange Server 2019 and 2016
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4488266
Cumulative Update 1 for Exchange Server 2019
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4471391
Cumulative Update 12 for Exchange Server 2016
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4471392
Cumulative Update 22 for Exchange Server 2013
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4345836
Delivery Reports exception when tracking a meeting request that's sent with a room resource in Exchange Server 2019 and 2016
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4488262
Disable the irrelevant Query logs that're created in Exchange Server 2019 and 2016
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4488268
Emails are blocked in moderator mailbox Outbox folder when you send large volumes of emails in Exchange Server 2019 and 2016
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4487596
Event ID 1002 when the store worker process crashes in Exchange Server 2019 and 2016
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4488261
Exchange Server 2016 allows adding Exchange Server 2019 mailbox server into a same DAG and vice versa
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4488079
Exchange Web Services Push Notifications can be used to gain unauthorized access
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4490060
Mailbox that has a bad move request can't be cleaned up from destination mailbox database in Exchange Server 2019 and 2016
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4488264
MailTip shows wrong number of users for a distribution group if the users are in different domains in Exchange Server 2019 and 2016
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4488259
MRM does not work for mailboxes that have an online archive mailbox in Exchange Server 2016
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4468363
New-MailboxExportRequest and New-MailboxImportRequest don't honor RBAC management scope in Exchange Server 2019 and 2016
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4488260
New-MailboxRepairRequest doesn't honor RBAC RecipientWriteScope restrictions in Exchange Server 2016
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4456239
New-MigrationBatch doesn't honor RBAC management scope in Exchange Server 2019 and 2016
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4488080
OAuth authentication is removed when you save MAPI virtual directory settings in EAC in Exchange Server 2019 and 2016
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4488258
Outlook for Mac users can still expand a distribution group when hideDLMembership is set to true in Exchange Server 2019 and 2016
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4487602
Outlook on the Web can't be loaded when users use an invalid Windows language in Exchange Server 2019 and 2016
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4488076
Reducing permissions required to run Exchange Server by using Shared Permissions Model
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4490059
Test-OAuthConnectivity always fails when Exchange Server uses proxy to connect to Internet in Exchange Server 2019 and 2016
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4488267
The recipient scope setting doesn't work for sibling domains when including OUs in the scope in Exchange Server 2019 and 2016
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4487591
Update Rollup 26 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4487052
X-MS-Exchange-Organization-BCC header isn't encoded correctly in Exchange Server 2019 and 2016
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4488263
You receive a meeting request that has a 'not supported calendar message.ics' attachment in Exchange Server 2016
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4456241
New & Updated Office 365 KB Articles
Description of the security update for Excel 2013: February 12, 2019
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4461597
Description of the security update for Office 2013: February 12, 2019
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4018300
Description of the security update for Office 2016: February 12, 2019
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4018294
February 2019 updates for Microsoft Office
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4488446
February 5, 2019, update for Office 2013 (KB4461444)
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4461444
February 5, 2019, update for Office 2013 (KB4461550)
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4461550
Office updates for new Japanese era
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4478844
Updates to Office 365 System Requirements
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4462769
New & Updated Outlook KB Articles
'Outlook not responding' error or Outlook freezes when you open a file or send mail
https://support.microsoft.com/help/2652320
Other Resources
Category shortcuts don’t work
After installing the January 2019 Office 365 update, users discovered the category shortcuts (Ctrl+Function key) either don’t work or apply the wrong category to the item.
Group By Views don’t work in To-Do List
The Office 365/2019 January 2019 update contained a affecting To-Do List views. Grouping by two fields returns 'nothing to display'.
The February 2019 Public Update releases for Office are now available! This month, there are 19 security updates and 28 non-security updates. All the security and non-security updates are listed in KB article 4488446. A new version of Office 2013 Click-To-Run is available: 15.0.5111.1001