If you are using an iPad, iPhone or iPod with iOS 4 or are supporting an Exchange environment with users using those devices, then you might have been experiencing slow performance or sync not working at all. The same is true when using a 3rd party solution which also uses an ActiveSync implementation such as Google Apps.
The Exchange Team has released an overview of the issues that you can encounter and the needed fixes or the current status of (Apple) getting a fix out.
Service Pack 3 for Exchange 2007 is now available.
Aside from including all the updates up until Exchange 2007 SP2 Update Rollup 4, Service Pack 3 also allows you to install Exchange 2007 on a Windows Server 2008 R2 server.
Download: Exchange 2007 Service Pack 3
Update Rollup 4 for Exchange 2010 has been released.
For a list of changes that are included in this update rollup, see KB982639.
Download: Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 (KB982639)
A new version of OutlookTools has been released. OutlookTools 2.3 has been updated to comply with the changes in Outlook 2010. It is still compatible with previous versions of Outlook as well of course.
OutlookTools is a support and advanced settings tool for Microsoft Office Outlook created by HowTo-Outlook. It gives you easy access to Outlook settings and data folders and allows you to change settings that are normally only possible through the registry.
Main Program Features
Development for OutlookTools 3.0 is well underway as well, introducing lots of new features.
OutlookTools is free to use, but you can support its development by making a donation.
Download: OutlookTools 2.3
If you are an MSDN or TechNet subscriber, you can now also download the RTM release of Business Contact Manager (BCM) 2010. The download is available in both in the 64-bit and 32-bit edition and in many languages.
In addition, the database tool for BCM 2010 has been released as well. With this tool you can run the database of BCM on a remote server, share data and backup and restore the database.
BCM 2010 is bundled with the Office Standard 2010 and Office Profession Plus 2010 Suites.
If you are a football/soccer fan, you are probably looking forward to the upcoming Word Cup in South Africa.
To make sure you don’t forget about any of the games (time zones can be an annoying thing) Outlook MVP Marcelo Thalenberg has created a web calendar with all the matches. This web calendar can be connected directly to Outlook 2007 and 2010 so that you will receive updates as well. Previous versions of Outlook can import the ics-file.
Any other calendaring application that support the webcal/ics format can be used as well.
Download: English FIFA World Cup 2010 schedule
Download: Spanish FIFA World Cup 2010 schedule
On June 15, Microsoft Munich/Unterschließheim (Germany) will be hosting the “Office (VSTO) Community Day”.
The topics discussed are focusing on development for SharePoint and Office such as;
Admission is free and speakers include both Microsoft developers and MVPs. So if you live/are in the neighborhood, and are an Office developer, don’t forget to signup as space is limited.
The Business Contact Manager Team has announced on their Team Blog that Business Contact Manager 2010 has reached the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) status.
It is directly available via Volume Licensing and will soon be added to MSDN and TechNet as well.
I’ve updated the “Setting Outlook Group Policies” guide to include information for Office 2010.
Group Policies allow you to enforce settings on a specific or a group of users or computers. This is mainly to be used to change or limit the default behavior of Office applications in an Active Directory environment but can also be useful in some home environments.
The Setting Outlook Group Policies guide explains how you can set Group Policies for Outlook in these environments and which tools are needed for it.
Microsoft has released 2 tools under an open source license. These 2 tools will allow developers to edit an pst-file without the need for Outlook to be installed on a machine or even for the machine to be running Windows.
The tools and their projects are hosted on CodePlex;
Download: PST Data Structure View Tool
Download: PST File Format SDK
View: Microsoft Delivers on Interoperability Principles With Office Outlook
The tools follow the earlier released Outlook Personal Folders File Format (.pst) Structure Specification.
