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New poll: Outlook 2010, Multiple accounts, and the Default Account.Outlook 2010 has a nifty new feature or an annoying bug, depending on your point of view. The problem feature? The lack of a true default account when there are multiple accounts delivered to different pst files in the profile. Outlook uses the account assigned to the pst the folder is in for new messages, not the default account assigned in Account Settings. What do you think? Vote:
Do you like Outlook 2010's handling of default accounts?
(Registration not required to vote.)
Poll: Edit and Save attachmentsI have a new poll at Outlook Forums. As always, this highly unscientific poll is open to all; only those who want to add a comment will need an account. Outlook has a nifty feature (or design flaw, depending on who you
talk to): you can open an attachment and edit it, then save it and the
changes save to the original email message. (The feature was removed
from Outlook 2010.) Dual Time Zone bugWhen you use Outlook 2010’s dual time zone feature and one time zone uses DST and the other does not, when you swap zones the Use DST checkbox in Window’s Date and Time applet may be unchecked when the time zone that uses DST is active. Because Outlook 2010 doesn’t display the Use DST checkbox, you won’t know this unless you happen to notice the computer’s time is off an hour. For more information, see Outlook 2010 Dual Time Zone bug Office 2010 and BCMIn Office 2010, Business Contact Manager is included only in the volume-license suite and as part of a TechNet or MSDN subscription. BCM 2010 is not included in any of the retail suites. However, any user who purchased a qualifying Office 2007 product that includes BCM prior to September 30, 2010 can upgrade to BCM 2010 through the Technology Guarantee program. Microsoft has this to say about possible BCM availability in the future: The Office Team is aware of the issues you are experiencing because of the limited number of suites Business Contact Manager is available. We are currently investigating possible solutions. For more information, see Office 2010 and BCM Outlook's Social Connector & PrivacyAnyone with the Social Connector's Facebook provider installed may see the Facebook profile pictures belonging to the email addresses on the message and possibly the status updates, if the person's privacy settings are set to public or friends of friends. Default Facebook settings are public profile pictures but private only status updates. For more information, see Outlook's Social Connector Outlook 2010 & "The attachment size exceeds the allowable limit"Outlook 2010 has a new feature that prevents you from sending messages larger than your SMTP server accepts. If you have an Exchange mailbox, Outlook gets the message limit from the server. Because other servers don't share this information with Outlook, it sets a default limit of 20 MB. If your SMTP server supports larger messages (or smaller), you can edit the registry to prevent the warning. For the relevant registry settings, see Outlook 2010's Default Attachment Size Outlook Connector Installation ProblemA new version of Outlook Hotmail Connector is available and its getting pushed out to users as an automatic upgrade. We’re seeing a lot of reports about the install going into an endless loop. This was somewhat common in older versions as well – the fix is:
Endless installation loop with the Outlook Hotmail Connector Hotfix: Windows Mobile and 12 year Recurrence BugA yearly recurrence pattern was introduced in Office 2007 SP2, unfortunately people who synced with Windows Mobile devices discovered their recurring events changed to recur every 12 years after syncing. I'm happy to announce that a hotfix released this week includes a fix for this bug. Along with this bug, the hotfix addresses a long list of other problems, including several problems affecting calendars and meetings. Review the KB article for the complete list of problems it addresses. Description of the Office Outlook 2007 hotfix package
(outlook-x-none.msp): April 27, 2010 BlackBerry Enterprise Server Support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) is now fully supported on Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and BlackBerry Technical Support Services are available. For more information, see Blackberry support or Exchange team Exchange Server 2010 RTMExchange 2010 is now available to the public. Download a 120 day trial to install on your hardware or a virtual disk for testing. Online trials also available. Exchange 2007 SP2Exchange 2007 SP2 is now available for download. Looking to the future, you will be able to deploy Exchange Server 2010 in your organization once all of the client access servers in your organization and Active Directory sites are upgraded to Exchange Server 2007 SP2. All Exchange 2007 server will need to be at SP2 level before interoperability with Exchange 2010 is assured. Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 Meeting Request Update BugWe're seeing complaints that Outlook automatically sends
meeting updates to the attendees several times a day. When users
delete the responses from their inbox it triggers another update
to attendees. The fix: Do not include yourself as an attendee. iPhone and the Meeting Request Bug Office 2007 SP2This update has all of the public updates, security updates, cumulative updates, and hotfixes released through February 2009. See Description of 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 2 (SP2) and of Microsoft Office Language Pack 2007 SP2 for more information and links to the downloads. This was placed on Windows update and will be automatically installed on computers with automatic updates enabled. See Outlook 2007 SP2 for slipstick.com's coverage of SP2. Appointment times randomly move by 2 - 8 minutesWe're seeing complaints about Outlook adding (or subtracting) 2 - 8
minutes to new appointments. For example, if an appointment is created
for 10:00 to 11:00 AM, it's changed to 10:02 to 11:02 AM. Users may
also receive an error message that the message is not recurring and
they need to close all open items. Appointment times randomly move Fixed: iPhone and Disappearing AppointmentsThere is a problem with iPhone v2 software syncing with Outlook where the events created on the device are only visible in a table view, not Day/Week/Month view. When new appointments are entered into the iPhone they're set as repeating in Outlook but contain no data and Outlook doesn't know what to do with them. To fix, open the event on the iPhone and change it to recurring daily then end the recurrence on the date of the event before syncing. A hotfix is now available. See Some recurring calendar items disappear from the "Day/Week/Month" view in Outlook when a user uses Exchange ActiveSync on a mobile device to modify a recurring meeting in an Exchange 2003 environment For more information, see iPhone, Outlook, and disappearing appointments CDO1.2.1 for Windows 2008 and VistaThis version of CDO is compatible with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. This will install on 64-bit systems but works only with 32-bit applications. Download: Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI Client and Collaboration Data Objects 1.2.1 Recurring Meeting BugIf your Outlook seems possessed and turns all of your meeting requests into recurring meetings, you have a Dell laptop with MediaDirect. There is a bug in the add-in that reads Outlook meetings so Media Direct's Instant Office can display then without fully booting into Windows. You'll need to uninstall or disable the add-in called "Outlook Setup Addin (Cyberlink)" to put an end to the errant recurring meetings. |
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