HowTo-Outlook

With all the changes that came with the transformation of Hotmail to Outlook.com and the Live ID becoming a Microsoft Account, this guide wasn’t just up for a renaming but for a major rewrite!

The process for configuring Outlook.com to use your own address has been simplified a bit and wasn’t just a paintjob. For instance, the addition of detecting the SMTP server for your domain allows you to actually send out with your own address as well instead of “on behalf of” even when this is for instance a Gmail address.

Nevertheless, there are quite some pitfalls but this updated guide walks you through the entire process; from signing up to migrating over your data.

Continue reading: Using Outlook.com with your own or current email address

Hotfix KB2760562 for Outlook 2013
This hotfix contains a fix for an issue where the “Show a room list” dialog box isn’t shown and the “Play on Phone” feature doesn’t work when Exchange 2013 has been set up without an external ECP (Enhanced Capability Port) URL.

View: More details and download information for KB2760562

Hotfix KB2768352 for Outlook 2013
This hotfix corrects an issue where the CTRL+ALT+Q shortcut doesn’t produce the @ sign in the German version of Outlook 2013 on a German version of Windows 7 or Windows 8 configured with a German keyboard layout.

View: More details and download information for KB2768352

Obtaining the hotfixes
These are a Hotfixes and not a regular update. You can request them via their KB article page.

Hotfix KB2791026 for Outlook 2010
This hotfix contains the following 2 fixes;

• After you create a new folder in the Inbox in Outlook 2010, the new folder is not selected.
• When you run the “Publish to GAL” function in Outlook 2010 and then send an encrypted message, recipients cannot open the encrypted message.

View: More details and download information for KB2791026

Obtaining the hotfixes
These are a Hotfixes and not a regular update. You can request them via their KB article page.

Hotfix KB2799874 for Outlook 2007
This hotfix contains a fix for when the JunkMailProtection policy is being ignored by Outlook 2007.

View: More details and download information for KB2799874

Obtaining the hotfixes
These are a Hotfixes and not a regular update. You can request them via their KB article page.

An update has been released for Outlook 2013 and can be downloaded and installed manually, but is also being offered via Microsoft Update.

Update KB2738013 for Outlook 2013
This is a non-security update which solves 3 issues all related to Outlook.com accounts.

• The content of Outlook items may not be displayed correctly when composing them with anything other than UTF-8 encoding. This update also requires update KB2768007 for Word 2013 to be installed.
• Mail items may appear as duplicates in Outlook. Deleting the duplicate in Outlook will however also delete the original on Outlook.com.
• Email messages that contain non-ASCII characters are not displayed correctly.

View: Download information for KB2738013
View: Download information for KB2768007

If you have Microsoft Update configured to also update other Microsoft applications, then this update will also also be offered via Microsoft Update or has already been updated automatically for you.