Addin & Utilities Pages

The tools on this page work with Outlook Contacts and allow you to get automatic updates and corrections. Note that Outlook's Social Connector provider for LinkedIn downloads current contact data for others who are in your LinkedIn connections. It won't update contacts in your Contact folder but adds them to the a special contact folder  

The tools on this page are used to update the phone number field in Microsoft Outlook Contacts folder.

This is a collection of calendar data tools and resources for the Microsoft Outlook Calendar folder. If you can't "see" current year holidays in your calendar, your holiday list may be outdated. See Missing Holidays for more information and links to download the updated file. To push a number of events out to users, see  

This is a collection of tools used to view inside MAPI message stores, including Exchange mailboxes and PSTs. Two of the tools, MFCMapi and MDBVu32 are provided by Microsoft. While these tools are designed for developers, they can be used by anyone with basic knowledge to browse for and delete hidden items in a mailbox  

The Find tool (and Advanced Find) searches across folders in a single Personal Folders file or in your Exchange Server mailbox. However, it cannot search subfolders in another user's mailbox or in a public folder. You can get searchable subfolders in a public folder by adding one of the Enterprise Search Tools, which generally rely  

The Find tool (and Advanced Find) searches across folders in a single Personal Folders file or in your Exchange Server mailbox. However, it cannot search subfolders in another user's mailbox or in a public folder. You can get searchable subfolders in a public folder by adding one of the tools on this page which generally  

These utilities provide telephony capabilities other than voice mail, such as: Reading your e-mail to you over the telephone Using CallerID to pop up a Contact entry Recording a sound file for transmission via e-mail Uploading phone numbers from your Contacts folder to your cellular phone Place phone calls to Outlook contacts   More Information  

The world is all a-twitter today over the new Starbucks add-in for Outlook 2013/2016 for use with Exchange Online or Outlook.com accounts. Me? I think it's a solution looking for a problem. Maybe I just don't hold enough business meetings in Starbucks get the point of it.... and I can use the app on my  

These add-ins, mostly for Microsoft Exchange Server, control the content of incoming and outgoing messages with a variety of techniques: Filtering attachments Filtering junk mail Filtering for objectionable content Some are direct add-ins for Exchange Server; others operate externally on Internet mail going into and out of the server. Many combine content control with virus  

These unsupported form samples illustrate some of the tasks you can organize with Microsoft Outlook, especially with Microsoft Exchange Server Public Folders. Not only are they useful in their own right, but they help you learn how to build custom Outlook forms. These forms are no longer available from Microsoft. I have copies of the  

Standalone fax users have many choices today, both in add-ins for Microsoft Outlook/Exchange and in alternative Internet faxing services. Why wrestle with a fax modem and tie up your telephone line when you can receive faxes for free via e-mail and send faxes via the Internet at little or no cost? Rates tend to be  

If you have Windows Server running on your LAN, you can configure Active Directory, which supports LDAP right out of the box. See How to Configure Address Book to Query Users in Active Directory for details on how to configure Outlook; follow the instructions in the Downlevel Client Considerations with the Address Book section to