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With the release of Windows 8 and surface tablets, I'm starting to see complaints about the 10 device limit for Exchange accounts. Users are trying to connect the Mail client to Exchange server but receive an error message instead. After adding Windows 8 desktop and laptop computers, I realized that the Mail app in Windows  

Problem: If you view the Outbox while messages are waiting to be sent, the messages are marked as read and won't send. If you open an outgoing message and click Send, it won't send.

How to install Microsoft Office without installing Outlook. If you aren't going to use Outlook, or are using a different version of Outlook, use a custom install and set Outlook so it's not available.

Tools and utilities for sharing Microsoft Outlook calendars over the Internet. Exchange Server is NOT required to use these tools.

A bug in Outlook allows a malformed "web bug" url to bypass the blocked external content setting. As a result, content that would normally be blocked by the Block External Content may be downloaded.

When you use Microsoft Outlook 2010 or Outlook 2013 and have multiple accounts delivered to different *.pst files, Outlook doesn’t use the default account set in Account settings. Instead, it uses the account associated with the mailbox or *.pst file the folder you are viewing is stored in. This change in behavior doesn't work well when an IMAP is configured to be the default email account and you have a POP3 account delivered to the default pst file.

Answers for frequently asked questions from users trying to make Outlook's Contacts sync with the iCloud Contact folder. How to show icloud contacts first, how to save new contacts to the icloud folder by default.

New for iCloud v.2 released September 2012: the ability to set the iCloud data file as the default data file if you use a POP3 account as your default email account. Unfortunately this doesn't work if an IMAP account is the default account.

iCloud 2 adds one big feature: ability to be default data file, but is limited to plain text notes/comments and other issues.

A virus infected email is making the rounds, purportedly from Microsoft, updating their service agreement. It looks like the real message but the URLs point to another site, typical of a phishing scheme. At least one version of the infected message includes an embedded external HTML file. The problem? When you download external content, either automatically or per message, that file will be saved to the hard drive and it will be rendered in Outlook. In this case, the HTML file is going to be rendered.

How to use VBA to create recurring appointments in Outlook that have two patterns, such as first and fourth Monday.

Use VBA to get the default FileAs format from the registry (and change it, if desired) then update the FileAs format of the contacts in the default contacts folder to match the default format set in Contact Options.

How to remove the Team Calendar group from Outlook's Calendar Navigation pane, which is added by an Exchange server mailbox.

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