HowTo-Outlook

The Outlook.com has announced that in the coming weeks 4 new features will roll out to all Outlook.com users.

• Advanced Rules
  Now you can create multi-condition and multi-action rules. New conditions include time constraints, email tallying, checking read/unread state of emails, and checking if the sender is a contact you know. Now you can create a rule like:
  • If an unread email is older than 3 days and is from one of your contacts, mark it as important and flag it.
• Undo
  In the top-right corner, you’ll now see a Undo button. This button can undo the message action mistakes for delete, categorize, flag, mark as junk, or move. Pressing CTRL+Z will also do the trick.
• In-line reply
  Similar to Outlook 2013 and OWA 2013, Outlook.com will now support In-line reply. When you now press the Reply button, the Reading Pane will change into a Compose Pane so you can write your reply without needing to open a new browser window or tab and stay within your mailbox. You still have the option to “Pop Out” if you want a dedicated compose window or tab.
• More personal messaging
  The chat experience has received the following improvements:
  • There is a Messaging section in the bottom left of your screen with contact pictures to quickly start a conversation by clicking on them.
  • You can switch your chat between different messaging services such as Messenger, Skype and Facebook chat.
  • Filter the People section by messaging service or availability.

View: Outlook.com introduces the most sophisticated rules in webmail

The Exchange Team has published a detailed blog post about the introduction of MAPI over HTTP for which support was added in Outlook 2013 Service Pack 1 and Exchange 2013 Service Pack 1.

This post is a must-read for every Exchange administrator and Outlook IT Pro who deals with Exchange connectivity.

From an end-user perspective, this change will offer faster reconnections to the Exchange server when for instance resuming from hibernation or switching between a wired and wireless connection. In the future, it will also offer support for native multi-factor authentication for Exchange accounts.

Support for MAPI over HTTP will be made available to Exchange Online (part of Office 365 for Business) customers later this year. Outlook 2010 will also get support for MAPI over HTTP connections in a future update.

View: Outlook Connectivity with MAPI over HTTP

3 Hotfixes have been released for Outlook 2013 fixing a total of 36 issues.

 
Hotfix KB2878323 for Outlook 2013
This hotfix contains 31 fixes for specific issues. Most notable fixes are;

• You get an unknown error when trying to categorize an item in a shared Calendar folder.
• When you are connected through a virtual private network (VPN), you cannot synchronize Outlook 2013 data to SharePoint.
• When you move the pointer over a person’s name or a contact card in an email message that is created by a mailto link in Outlook 2013, another compose email message appears. (I had this issue a couple of times and thought I was getting crazy )

View: More details and download information for KB2878323

 
Hotfix KB2863897 for Outlook 2013
This hotfix contains 4 fixes for specific issues. Most notable fixes are;

• Excel may crash when you send a workbook as an email attachment directly from Excel, save the message and then return to Excel.
• Room finder cannot provide rooms lists, rooms, or suggested times when you are connected via RPC over HTTP and the internal EWS URL is valid but the external EWS URL is unreachable.

View: More details and download information for KB2863897

 
Hotfix KB2738001 for Outlook 2013
This hotfix solves an issue where meetings and appointments are not correctly saved in a pst-file when exported from an IMAP mailbox store.

View: More details and download information for KB2738001

 
Obtaining the hotfixes
These are a Hotfixes and not regular updates. You can request them via their KB article page. Note that hotfixes do not apply to Office 365 installations of Office 2013 but are usually installed automatically after about a month.

This hotfix contains 6 fixes for specific issues. Most notable fixes are;

• Fix an issue that you can view the details of the private items from a shared calendar in a specific case.
• Folder names of an IMAP account which begin with “Inbox” in a non-English version of Outlook will be translated to a non-English language and fail to sync.
• After you install this update, Outlook will not log the “Synchronization of some deletions failed.” sync errors in the Sync Issues Folder.

View: More details and download information for KB2878254

Obtaining the hotfixes
This is a Hotfix and not a regular update. You can request it via its KB article page.

An update has been released for Outlook 2007 which fixes a SharePoint synchronization issue with got introduced in the February hotfix KB2760822.

This update also contains all the 7 fixes which are mentioned in that hotfix.

View: Download information for KB2863811

This update is being offered via Microsoft Update when you have it configured to also update other Microsoft applications or has already been applied automatically for you.