Remove a Contact from an Outlook 2007 Distribution List
You may have learned the hard way that if you open a distribution list in Outlook 2007, highlight one contact, and click on Delete, the entire distribution list is deleted! The trick is to click on...
View ArticlePrevent Outside Parties from Scheduling Your Calendar
Ever receive an email with an Outlook calendar item attached, then find that the item appeared in your calendar without your permission? It turns out that by default, Outlook lets anybody in the world...
View ArticleConsolidate Multiple Accounts in Outlook 2010
Outlook 2010 allows adding multiple Exchange accounts. But what if you want to save all mail in a primary account, but still send mail from secondary accounts? With some help from Microsoft Partner...
View ArticleCopy Outlook Signatures to New Computer
Need to copy your Outlook signatures from one computer to another? Just copy the contents of this folder: %appdata%\Microsoft\Signatures That %appdata% code will expand to the correct name for XP,...
View ArticleSecure Email Signatures in Outlook 2010
I don’t come across Secure MIME (S/MIME) signed emails very often so I thought it might be interesting to post a few screenshots of what happens when you receive a signed email. If a signed email comes...
View ArticleOutlook 2007 Crashes on Exit Due to WinFax Module dccmsp32.dll
Problem I have a workstation running Windows XP SP2 on an SBS 2003 domain with Exchange. Yesterday I upgraded it from Office 2003 SP3 to Office 2007 SP1. All security patches have been applied. When...
View ArticleFixing Outlook 2007 Rules after Backup Exec Mailbox Restore
I'm using Outlook 2007 to connect to Exchange 2003 under SBS 2003. All of my rules are server-side. The rules are still in Outlook 2003 format, though I'm not sure if that matters for this issue....
View ArticleOutlook 2010 Repeated Logon Prompts
I’ve been using Outlook 2010 under Window 7 for a few months, connected to Exchange 2007 SP3 running under SBS 2008. I have three Exchange accounts set up in my Outlook profile. Suddenly this week I...
View ArticleOutlook Does Not Finish Send and Receive of OAB
This week, the Send and Receive task in Outlook 2007 SP2 and Outlook 2010 started hanging while trying to download from Exchange Server 2007 SP3 on SBS 2008. If I highlighted the stuck process, I could...
View ArticleOutlook 2010 Can’t Send Email to Explicit Address
This Outlook 2010 issue has me stumped so far. Looking for feedback/suggestions. I have a contact in Outlook that has two names, e.g. John Doe and Jane Smith. Only John’s email is in the contact...
View ArticlePGP Desktop Corrupts Outlook 2010 Recover Deleted Items
This one has driven me mad for weeks. Finally tracked it down to PGP Desktop. Here are the symptoms and a workaround. Symptoms On my primary Windows 7 machine, I use PGP Desktop 10.1.2 solely for...
View ArticleOutlook 2013 Slow Autodiscover with Office 365
I’m using Outlook 2013 to connect to my Office 356 account. DNS is set up correctly, with autodiscover.mydomain.com pointing to autodiscover.outlook.com. I recently had to re-create my account and it...
View ArticleRemove a Contact from an Outlook 2007 Distribution List
You may have learned the hard way that if you open a distribution list in Outlook 2007, highlight one contact, and click on Delete, the entire distribution list is deleted! ...
View ArticlePrevent Outside Parties from Scheduling Your Calendar
Ever receive an email with an Outlook calendar item attached, then find that the item appeared in your calendar without your permission? It turns out that by default, Outlook lets ...
View ArticleOutlook 2010 Repeated Logon Prompts
I’ve been using Outlook 2010 under Window 7 for a few months, connected to Exchange 2007 SP3 running under SBS 2008. I have three Exchange accounts set up in my ...
View ArticleOutlook Does Not Finish Send and Receive of OAB
This week, the Send and Receive task in Outlook 2007 SP2 and Outlook 2010 started hanging while trying to download from Exchange Server 2007 SP3 on SBS 2008. If I ...
View ArticleConsolidate Multiple Accounts in Outlook 2010
Outlook 2010 allows adding multiple Exchange accounts. But what if you want to save all mail in a primary account, but still send mail from secondary accounts? With some help ...
View ArticleCopy Outlook Signatures to New Computer
Need to copy your Outlook signatures from one computer to another? Just copy the contents of this folder: %appdata%\Microsoft\Signatures That %appdata% code will expand to the correct name for XP, ...
View ArticleOutlook 2010 Can’t Send Email to Explicit Address
This Outlook 2010 issue has me stumped so far. Looking for feedback/suggestions. I have a contact in Outlook that has two names, e.g. John Doe and Jane Smith. Only John’s ...
View ArticlePGP Desktop Corrupts Outlook 2010 Recover Deleted Items
This one has driven me mad for weeks. Finally tracked it down to PGP Desktop. Here are the symptoms and a workaround. Symptoms On my primary Windows 7 machine, I ...
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