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Update Rollup 6 for Exchange 2007 Service Pack 3 is now available for direct download (see below for links). Expect it to become available via Microsoft Update on October 25.

It includes 21 new fixes. The Exchange Team would like to highlight the following ones (some KB articles might not yet be available in your region);

• DST Cadence Release for Dec 2011 – Exchange 2007
• KB22656040 An Exchange Server 2007 Client Access server may respond slowly or stop responding when users try to synchronize the Exchange ActiveSync devices with their mailboxes
• KB2498852 “0x80041606” error message when you perform a prefix search by using Outlook in online mode in an Exchange Server 2007 environment
• KB22653334 The reseed process is unsuccessful on the SCR passive node when the circular logging feature is enabled in an Exchange Server 2007 environment
• KB22617784 Journal reports are expired or lost when the Microsoft Exchange Transport service is restarted in an Exchange Server 2007 environment
• KB2289607 The week numbers displayed in OWA do not match the week numbers displayed in Outlook for English users and French users in an Exchange Server 2007 environment

No expected release date for the next update rollup has been made known yet.

Download: Exchange 2007 SP3 Rollup 6
View: Description of Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3

An update is available for the Facebook Provider for the Outlook Social Connector. This updates the Facebook Provider to version 14.0.6114.5003.

No change log has been made available but the issue of not being able to directly add someone to Facebook via the Social Connector in Outlook is still there (leads to a 404 page). However, this is also more of an issue with the Facebook website than with the Outlook Social Connector as Facebook needs to process these URLs and send out the invite.

Update: The Outlook Team has made known that the new Facebook Provider supports secure HTTPS connections. An upgrade notification will also be shown in the People Pane later this month when you haven’t updated yet.

Download: Microsoft Outlook Social Connector Provider for Facebook

I’m wishing everybody a great 2012! And of course a trouble free Outlook year as well!

To help you out, here are a couple of Outlook New Year’s Resolutions;

• Backup your Outlook data
• Disable add-ins you don’t use
• Use more than rules to organize your mail

Continue reading: Top 10 Best Practices for Outlook

Still haven’t sent out your Christmas cards? You are cutting it a bit short but it is still not too late.

If you’ve got lots of people to send out cards to, writing your Christmas cards and address the envelopes can be quite a chore. By categorizing your contacts and using a Mail Merge, you can be done a lot quicker still and address everyone personally.

While a Mail Merge might sound complicated for some, it is actually quite easy to do. All the preparations and some other tips for sending Christmas cards by snail mail or email can be found in our special Christmas Guide.

Of course you can also use this method to send out your invitations for your New Year’s party!

On-line Services where you can create a card or upload your own picture and then have it delivered as a real card are also becoming increasingly more popular. If they support importing contacts from an Excel or csv-file, you can quickly export only your selected contacts and their addresses to Excel (which also supports saving as csv-files) as detailed in the guide; Export Contacts to Excel.

And if you are planning to extend your Christmas and New Year holiday (a skiing trip perhaps?), don’t forget to set an Out of Office or Vacation message.

Continue Reading: Christmas Time!