HowTo-Outlook

With the final days of the year approaching, Christmas is right around the corner as well.

With so little time left, Outlook can help you with sending out your Christmas cards or New Year party invitations no matter if these are real or digital cards.

Instructions, tips and templates can be found in our special Christmas Guide.

You can share in the poll below how you’ve sent out your cards this year:

Some other things that you might also want to do in Outlook before the year ends:

• Set your Out of Office or Vacation message
• Update your holidays for next year
• Print a yearly calendar with Holidays and Birthdays

Continue Reading: Christmas Time!

Microsoft has re-released Rollup 5 for Exchange 2010 SP2 to address a recent security issue.

Download: Update Rollup 5-v2 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 (KB2785908)
View: Original list of fixes in Update Rollup 5 for Exchange 2010 SP2 (KB2785908)
View: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-080 – Critical

Update Rollup 9 for Exchange 2007 Service Pack 3 is now available for direct download. As it also contains a security update, it’s directly being offered via Microsoft Update as well.

The other fix that it contains is for the following issue:

• When you send a corrupted meeting request to another user, Microsoft Exchange Transport service (EdgeTransport.exe) crashes. The expected behavior is that the Exchange Transport service handles the problem and continues to run.

Download: Update Rollup 9 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3 (KB2746157)
View: Description of Update Rollup 9 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3

Update Rollup 8 for Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1 is now available for direct download. As it contains a security update, it’s directly being offered via Microsoft Update as well.

Download: Update Rollup 8 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 (KB2787763)
View: Description of Update Rollup 8 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1

Hotfix KB2553391 for Outlook 2010
This hotfix contains 4 fixes for the following issues:

• When you download an Offline Address Book (OAB) by using Outlook 2010 in cached mode, you receive the following error message:

  0x8007000E ‘Out of memory or system resources. Close some windows or programs and try again.’

• Assume that you install Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Outlook 2010. You open a shared calendar folder in Outlook. In this situation, Outlook crashes.
• When you perform a search in a large shared folder in Outlook 2010, you experience slow search performance.
• Assume that you open an email message in a shared mailbox in Outlook 2010 online mode. Then, you assign a category for the email message. In this situation, when you open the same email message in Outlook 2010 cached mode, additional text is unexpectedly added to the body of the email message.

View: More details and download information for KB2553391

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

Hotfix KB2596845 for Outlook 2007
This hotfix contains a fix for an issue where read receipts are not being sent when the DisableTNEF registry entry has been set and result in the following send/receive error:

Task ‘account name – Sending’ reported error (0x800CCC13): ‘Cannot connect to the network. Verify your network connection or modem.’

View: More details and download information for KB2596845

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