HowTo-Outlook

A Holiday update has been released for Outlook 2007 which contains holidays for 2013 and later.

Currently the update is only available as a Hotfix but you can expect it to be included in a regular update later as well.

After requesting and installing the hotfix, you must reimport the holidays to actually get the newly added holidays in your Calendar:
Tools-> Options-> button Calendar Options…-> button Add Holidays

To prevent duplicates you can remove your existing holidays first by changing your Calendar view arrangement to “By Category” (all holidays are in the “Holiday” category):
View-> Current View-> By Category

Download: Outlook 2007 Holiday Update (KB2687329)
View: More information about updating holidays in Outlook

Update Rollup 4 for Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2 is now available for direct download (see below for links). As it also contains a security update, it’s directly being offered via Microsoft Update as well.

It includes 23 new fixes, DST updates and a solution for Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-058. The Exchange Team would like to highlight the following ones (some KB articles might not yet be available in your region);

• New updates for August DST – Exchange 2010 – SP2 RU4 – Display name for OWA.
• KB2685001 Retention policies do not work for the Calendar and Tasks folders in an Exchange Server 2010 SP1 environment
• KB2686540 Exchange 2010 Messages are not delivered to Journal Mailbox
• KB2701162 Granting Full Mailbox Access Does Not Allow Full Details of Free/Busy To Be Displayed
• KB2724188 Information loss due to unexpected subject modification while copying a message in Outlook
• KB2743871 Stop Forefront services in RU setup so no manual steps are required

No expected release date for the next update rollup has been made known yet.

Download: Exchange 2010 SP2 Rollup 4 (KB2706690)
View: Description of Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2

Update Rollup 8 for Exchange 2007 Service Pack 3 is now available for direct download (see below for links). As it also contains a security update, it’s directly being offered via Microsoft Update as well.

It includes 4 new fixes, DST updates and a solution for Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-058. The Exchange Team would like to highlight the following ones (some KB articles might not yet be available in your region);

• New updates for August DST – Exchange 2007 – SP3 RU8
• KB2701037 Store.exe crash by strcat_s() to Exchange 2007
• KB2699574 Microsoft Exchange Information Store service may stop responding when you perform a search on Exchange mailboxes in an Exchange Server 2007 environment

Download: Exchange 2007 SP3 Rollup 8
View: Description of Update Rollup 8 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3

Today, Microsoft released a preview of their new web based mail service and it is called… Outlook.com!

Outlook.com is basically a complete rework of what you currently know as Hotmail but with a clean new user interface. This new user interface is in the Metro style which is also featured in Windows 8, Windows Phone and (to some extend) in Office 2013. To put it bluntly; Its design is a mix of the Windows 8 Mail app, Outlook 2013 and Outlook Web App that ships with Exchange 2013.

Aside from the new interface, there are also a ton of new options, especially when it comes to contact management and interaction. Instead of creating your contacts manually, you can directly integrate your contact lists from Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and Twitter. Skype integration will follow soon (and won’t even require you to install the Skype client)!

To get started, simply visit Outlook.com and sign in with your Microsoft Account. If you already have a Hotmail account, you can sign in with that address too and your account will get automatically converted. You’ll of course then keep your original @hotmail address but also have the option to add a new @outlook.com alias.

There is lots more to this so make sure you read the introduction post at the Outlook Blog. It also hold instructions on how to convert your current account fully to Outlook.com.

View: Introducing Outlook.com – Modern Email for the Next Billion Mailboxes