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An update to Facebook affects the Outlook's Social Connector and users will need to be using the new Social Connector (updated in January 2012).

So you got a new netbook or laptop but it doesn't have a CD/DVD drive. How will you get Outlook installed? And, really, is it worth installing a memory-pig like Outlook on a netbook? Yes, in my opinion, if you use Outlook on your desktop, its worth installing it on the netbook or laptop...

If you receive this error message: 550 5.7. < alias@domain.com >… Relaying denied: You must check for new mail before sending mail. You need to configure Outlook to check for new mail before sending mail. Lowering your "check every xx minutes" time to 8 minutes or disabling Send Immediately may reduce the frequency of...

A selling point of early versions of Office was "wordmail" where, with the click of a button, an email header was added to the Word document or Excel file. All you need to do was address it and click the Send a Copy button and the document was sent in the body of a...

From an Outlook user: "My problem is that whenever I type two hyphens, Outlook automatically thinks that I want it start a bulleted list and it will change my two hyphens into a bullet. That would be fine and dandy, but the automatic bullets in Outlook are not recognized by our accounting software and...

A visitor to our site asked how to configure MS Outlook 2010 for SpamCop reporting. Outlook doesn’t directly report to SpamCop. You need to get the message header and source and forward the message to SpamCop yourself. You can also use an addin, as suggested by Bert Visscher. SpamSource helps collect information from messages...

A user was unable to connect to their Microsoft Exchange using Outlook Anywhere – as soon as he enabled cached exchange mode and restarted Microsoft Outlook 2010 it hung with the "Looking For credential tiles" message. For this user, Outlook 2010 works fine without cached mode enabled. It's just when cached mode is enabled...

How to create a view to show only Tasks in the Outlook 2007 (and up) To-Do List.

When you save a message as HTML in Outlook 2007 (and 2010), Outlook creates a matching (and annoying) folder containing XML and THMX files. For most users, deleting the folder also deletes the HTML page. This is because the default setting for managing web pages and folders is to show and manage them as...

On this page we have the icons you may see in your Inbox, Sent folder, or in the message header. In most cases, Outlook 2007 (and Outlook 2010) use the "New" icons introduced in Outlook 2003, however, if the icon is different it is listed under the Outlook 2007 column. Mail | Calendar & Tasks |...