Posts Tagged ‘outlook’

January 1 2010

Office 2010: New features

I’ve been using the Office 2010 Technical Preview and the Beta for quite some time now. In this post, I share 10 new features in Office 2010 that I like.

Video Editing features in Powerpoint
You can now easily trim a video (i.e. play only a section of a video) or [...]

May 3 2009

Office 2007 Service Pack 2 released

Office 2007 SP2 was released just a few days ago. Some of the significant improvements are:
Office 2007 SP2 benefits :

Speeds up Outlook with Startup, Shutdown, Folder view and switch, and more!
Improves Outlook performance with using the MS Word editor (default editor)
Outlook Search reliability – Improves search reliability when you use SP2 with Windows Desktop Search [...]

January 25 2009

Outlook prompting for credentials when OAB Web-based publishing enabled

January 25, 2009
If you have enabled web-based publishing of your Offline Address Book (OAB) and your Outlook users get continuously prompted to enter their passwords, you need to check a couple of things:

Make sure Autodiscover is working perfectly before you made the OAB change.
Hold down the CTRL button and right click on the Outlook [...]

October 19 2008

Opening two Outlook profiles at the same time

One common query that administrators have is the matter regarding opening two Outlook profiles simultaneously. As we all know, only one Outlook instance (profile) can be open on a PC at any given time. You can of course, open more than one Exchange mailbox inside the same Outlook instance – however this leads to (user) [...]

July 28 2008

Clearing the Outlook 2007 AutoComplete cache

The AutoComplete cache fetches commonly used email addresses when you type the first few characters in the To, CC or BCC box when you compose a message in Outlook. In this post I will explain how you can remove entries from the AutoComplete cache.
A) To remove a single entry from the AutoComplete cache

1. Compose [...]

July 24 2008

Managing changes to legacyExchangeDN

If you had to change the legacyExchangeDN for your users as part of a migration or other manual process, or even an error in your automated user provisioning software, there are certain things that you need to be aware of.
For one thing, cached Outlook ‘autocomplete’ entries will stop working. If a sender uses his Outlook [...]