Outlook

This post was Sponsored by Stellar, you can learn more about their EDB Recovery Tool here. Exchange Server is Microsoft's enterprise email, calendaring, contact, scheduling, and collaboration platform. It is an enterprise-class server that is primarily focused on sending, receiving, and storing email messages for all of the users in the organization. The current version… Read More

When you look at your calendar before having a cup of coffee and all you see are meetings back-to-back for the day, you already know it’s going to be a marathon to make it to 5 P.M. Not only is this physically and mentally exhausting, at least in my experience, but it can also have… Read More

"Everyone needs some extra time." I doubt you'll meet many in IT that won't agree with this statement. I certainly could use a few extra hours every week. Like, 3. That's probably the sweet spot. Struggling to effectively prioritize and organize your time, manage meetings, find time to focus? Microsoft mentioned last July that "time… Read More

Over the past year, Microsoft's Outlook mobile development team has been assisting you and your users with providing a clear and separate perspective between your work and personal accounts in the Outlook mobile app. They've also helped users identify external messages for security purposes and to keep malicious threats out of your networks. There are… Read More

If you don’t use something often, then you might even forget it exists. When I read that reactions in Outlook are rolling out soon, I had to go and check that the like button, which launched in 2015, still existed in Outlook on the web. The like button still exists and was one of the… Read More

Microsoft has started rolling out a new feature to the Outlook mobile app (iOS & Android) that allows you to create a To Do easily and efficiently from an email.

Microsoft has announced several updates coming to Outlook that are designed to make it easier to add tasks to To Do and manage your calendar.

Outlook for Windows is introducing an option to allow users to save some settings in the Microsoft 365 cloud.

This week in Teams, we've been exploring some new functionality rolling out for use with Intune, meeting limits/meeting join improvements, interoperability settings and more.

This month, the news is mostly around the Office clients and the Power Platform. I guess those teams decided to work harder than the rest or it could be that teams like the SharePoint group are busy delivering on a lot of new features they had already teased.

A bug in Outlook desktop's implementation of the MAPI over HTTP protocol allows users whose mailboxes are on hold to remove attachments from messages. The removal is not captured by the copy-on-write feature of Exchange Online Native Data Protection, which potentially compromises the ability of Data Governance managers or eDiscovery investigators to recover information needed for compliance purposes. All in all, it's a mess that Microsoft needs to clean up quickly.

Outlook users are more than aware of the problems involved in message recall, a feature that's only available in Outlook desktop and has a nasty habit of not working. The reasons why the feature fails are well known, but soon might be addressed by a new Exchange Online implementation that promises to work for all clients and across Office 365. Time will tell if careers and love can be rescued by the new message recall.

Microsoft's FindTime service helps Office 365 users find the right time to schedule a meeting with people inside and outside their tenant. It's an underappreciated gem. And the good news is that an even better service called Calendar.Help is on the way. Well, it's better if you like asking Cortana to find the right meeting dates for you rather than the more-hands on approach taken by FindTime. Whichever way you cut it, help is always appreciated when setting up meetings, so it's nice that these tools are available.

How to set up notifications in Windows 10 to maximize productivity while not missing important tasks and messages.

Microsoft has announced that Exchange Online and Outlook will soon synchronize email signatures across devices. Does this mean that the ISV market for email autosignature products is over? I don't think so because there's lots of other things to do with email signatures once device synchronization is handled.