Diane Poremsky

If you don't use an Exchange account, you can’t use Free/Busy unless you (and your contacts) publish free/busy to file server (co-workers) or an Internet server (HTTP or FTP).To share free/busy only with others on your same network, the administrator needs to configure a folder on the network with Read/Change permissions for Everyone, Authenticated users, or Anonymous. To … [Read more...] about Tip 803: Using Free/Busy without Exchange

I’ve had several questions the past couple of weeks looking for a prompt to select a folder when sending messages. This is a popular feature in Lotus Notes but while Outlook allows you to set a Sent items folder for every message you send (overriding the Sent folder) it doesn’t pop up a dialog – you need to remember to select the folder before hitting Send, or use a macro to … [Read more...] about Tip 802: Prompt for folder on Send

I recently had a question from an administrator looking for a way to prevent users from clicking on hyperlinks in Outlook. He doesn’t care if users copy the URL and paste it into a browser, he just doesn’t want them clicking links in Outlook.Links in the junk mail folder are unclickable, but you can’t block urls in other folders in the same manner. However, you can take … [Read more...] about Tip 801: Block hyperlinks in Outlook