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A Rollup Update has been released for Outlook 2013. This is a non-security update which contains 14 documented improvements and fixes.

Most notable fixes are:

• Assume that you create a new conditional formatting that filters items by a specific category. In this situation, the conditional formatting may not work for the items that contain one or more categories except the given category.
• You cannot synchronize an Office 365 account in Outlook 2013. Additionally, you receive an “80040600” error message in the sync logs.
• Assume that you receive a meeting request in Outlook 2013, and the meeting request is created in Outlook 2016 and contains tables, or embedded images, or attachments. In this situation, the tables, or images, or attachments are missing or corrupted. To fix this issue, you’ll additionally need to set the AllowHTMLCalendarContent Registry value.

View: Download information for KB3127975

Note: This update can be installed via Microsoft Update or the Update Now button when you are using Office 365 and updates Outlook to version 15.0.4885.1000.

For the people that were still stuck on Outlook 2013 because of lack of support for BCM in Outlook 2016, the wait is finally over; Microsoft has released Outlook Customer Manager (or OCM for short).

More than just the acronym has changed as OCM has been build from the ground up or actually; From the Cloud up (or would it be down then?).

With OCM you can centrally manage various data on your customers and deals that you have made with them. It also conveniently shows a timeline of past interactions you had with them like emails, appointments and calls.

Although the current feature set is a bit smaller than the original BCM, it also has some massive benefits over BCM. Most prominent are the extremely simple setup (it no longer relies on a local SQL installation) and that it can be accessed from anywhere and by multiple people as the data is stored in special (group) mailboxes in Office 365. New features will be added over time and can also be requested via UserVoice.

OCM is currently rolling out to Office 365 Business Premium subscriptions at no additional cost and it will soon be made available to E3 and E5 subscriptions as well. When it has been made available to you, the Customer Manager button will automatically show up in Outlook and is directly ready to use.

There is also an app for iOS so you can access the data on an iPhone or iPad. Apps for Android and Windows Mobile are also being developed and will be made available as soon as they are ready.

View: Introducing Outlook Customer Manager—relationships made easy for small businesses

A Rollup Update has been released for Outlook 2016. This is a non-security update which contains 10 documented improvements and fixes.

Most notable fixes are:

• Adds the ability to specify the “Warn me before downloading content when editing, forwarding, or replying to e-mail” option through the ForceWarnAboutExternalContent Registry key.
• You can’t forward a meeting from the calendar to another recipient.
• Assume that you enable the Never send a read receipt option in Outlook 2016. When you empty unread items that has the Request a Read Receipt option enabled, the Not read message is still generated.

All Office 365 users in the Current Channel should now also have the @mentions feature enabled.

View: Download information for KB3127912

Note: This update can be installed via Microsoft Update or the Update Now button when you are using Office 365 and updates Outlook to version 16.0.4456.1003 (msi-based installation) or 16.0.7369.2038 (Office 365 based installation).

A Rollup Update has been released for Outlook 2013. This is a non-security update which contains 10 documented improvements and fixes.

Most notable fixes are:

• Fixes an issue that causes periods in attachment file names to be replaced with spaces.
• Fixes an issue in which you encounter unexpected drag-and-drop errors after you apply KB3115158 (June 2016 update).
• When you empty the Deleted Items folder that contains unread items that have the Request a Read Receipt option selected, “Not read:” email messages are sent out even though you have turned on the Never send a read receipt option.

View: Download information for KB3127919

Note: This update can be installed via Microsoft Update or the Update Now button when you are using Office 365 and updates Outlook to version 15.0.4875.1000.