HowTo-Outlook

Microsoft has released Send; An app which uses email for text messaging.

There are quite a few text messaging or IM apps available but none of them integrate with Outlook as tightly as Send. As Send uses email as the transfer method, all the IM messages that you send and receive will also be available in Outlook and you can use your existing Address Book to send message to people.

In essence, Send is a lightweight email app with an interface that is optimized for quickly sending those short back-and-forth messages.

Currently, Send is only available for iPhone in the US and Canada and you need to have an Office 365 for Business or University email account. An app for Windows Phone and Adroid is coming “soon” and the app will become more broadly available in the coming months (Read; To Outlook.com users once they have been migrated to Exchange Online).

View: Introducing Send—designed for in-and-out email
Download: Send, a Microsoft Garage project for iPhone

A Rollup Update has been released for Outlook 2013. This is a non-security update which contains 13 documented improvements and fixes.

Most notable new changes and fixes are:

• You cannot delete an iCalendar (.ics) or a vCalendar (.vcs) calendar for an Exchange ActiveSync (EAS/Outlook.com) profile in Outlook 2013.
• Adds handling for an empty message object during synchronization so that it will no longer result in a crash. This issue was observed during some shutdown scenarios.
• When you reply, reply all, or forward an email message in Outlook 2013, the email header only displays the display names of the recipients, and does not display their email addresses.

View: Download information for KB3054940

Note: This update is also offered via Microsoft Update or already installed automatically for you when Microsoft Update is configured to also update other Microsoft applications.
Office 365 subscribers can install this update manually via the Update Now button or wait for the automatic update. This update is included in version: 15.0.4737.1003.

A Rollup Update has been released for Outlook 2010. This is a non-security update which contains 4 documented improvements and fixes.

Most notable new changes and fixes are:

• When you run a quick step to apply a retention policy that has been deleted to an item in Outlook 2010, the retention policy is still applied to the item even though it has been deleted.
• Object model for conversation objects does not work in online mode in Outlook 2010.

View: Download information for KB3054976

Note: This update is also offered via Microsoft Update or already installed automatically for you when Microsoft Update is configured to also update other Microsoft applications.

Cumulative Update 9 for Exchange 2013 is now available for direct download.

This Cumulative Update contains 23 new fixes and all previously released fixes and security updates for Exchange 2013.

The main focus of this release is on the following scenarios and issues:

• Changes to the OWA Forms Based Auth logoff experience; This fixes the TMG logoff issues introduced in CU1.
• KB3050877: Shared and Delegated Mailboxes can now be configured to keep a copy of emails sent from the mailbox by any of its members/delegates, instead of storing that item in the Sent Items folder of the member/delegates.
• KB3056817: When you access your mailbox by using Outlook Web App in a Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 environment, the first email message is selected and marked as read automatically.

Important!
When installing Exchange 2013 CU9, make sure you also explicitly execute:
setup.exe /PrepareAD /IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms
This command is being skipped since CU9 doesn’t contain any schema changes when compared to CU7 and CU8. However, CU9 does include RBAC changes which are otherwise not applied and the aforementioned improvements in KB3050877 will not work.

Download: Cumulative Update 9 for Exchange Server 2013 (KB3049849)
Download: Exchange Server 2013 CU9 UM Language Packs
View: Description of Cumulative Update 9 for Exchange Server 2013
View: Blog post of the Exchange Team about CU 9 for Exchange Server 2013

Update Rollup 10 for Exchange 2010 Service Pack 3 is now available for direct download.

This Rollup Update contains 7 new fixes, and all previously released fixes and security updates for Exchange 2010 SP3.

Notable fixes are:

• KB3069055 Various DAG maintenance scripts do not work in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
• KB3054644 “The item no longer exists” error when you access an archive mailbox in Outlook Web App in Exchange Server 2010
• KB3057422 “MapiExceptionNoAccess: Unable to query table rows” error and some mailboxes cannot be moved after you install Exchange Server 2010 SP3 RU 8 v. 2

This is the last scheduled Update Rollup for Exchange 2010 as mainstream support for Exchange 2010 has ended. This means that it will basically only get security and DST updates until mainstream support ends as well.

View: Description of Update Rollup 10 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3
Download: Update Rollup 10 for Exchange 2010 SP3 (KB3049853)