Apr
20
2008
This post outlines the process of enabling disabled Outlook Addins using Outlook Disabled Items applet.
Not long ago I posted the article “Outlook 2003 Out of Office Assistant Error: The command is not available. See the program documentation about how to use this extension” which discussed how to enable the disabled Outlook Addin (in this case the Out of Office addin) via the Registry.
Basically it was a matter of launching the Registry Editor (regedit) and crawling to find the entry to delete.
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Apr
17
2008
This posts outlines how to quickly identify (a business) user’s availability (free-time) in order to set up a meeting or appointment in Outlook using the Free-Busy information.
The Outlook Free-Busy Information is published information about a users’ availability based on the users’ schedule. This Free-Busy information is made available to Outlook by Microsoft Exchange.
Free-Busy information is very important to Outlook because it needs to know when you are free and when you’re not available so you and other users in the business can invite you to meetings and appointments.
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Apr
13
2008
Note: Outlook Activities only available for Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007 but not for Outlook Express.
Ever wonder if you sent that all important email to a client but couldn’t remember exactly when you sent it. The natural action would be to fire up a search in Outlook, wait for the search to return the results and then analyse search results.
There is much quicker method to track your communications with your clients using Outlook Activities.
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Apr
08
2008
Set Outlook Address Book order when used in a Microsoft Exchange environment
Before posting How to force Outlook to auto resolve a name from the GAL I should’ve covered how to set the address book order Outlook looks at when auto resolving a name entered in the To: field.
Outlook can auto resolve a name in the To: field using the following address books:
- Global Address List (GAL) - when Outlook is used in a Microsoft Exchange environment
- Outlook Address Book
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