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Entries Tagged as 'Outlook'

Person availability sparkline for Outlook meeting requests

February 1st, 2011 · No Comments · Ideas, Technology, UX

TweetDear Outlook team: As I was riding home on the train today talking with my fellow riders, an idea for a practical feature in an upcoming Outlook release developed. Since time is precious, and I’m focused on other pursuits, I wanted to place this idea into the Creative Commons for your consideration. At least the [...]

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Hotmail…DAV no more

September 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Technology

TweetThis is a public service announcement concerning Hotmail (aka Windows Live Mail) access from Microsoft Outlook. If you recall your Hotmail account working just fine from within Outlook not too long ago, but you’re running into the following error (e.g. after hitting F9), this post may be helpful: Task ‘********@hotmail.com: Folder:Inbox Synchronizing headers.’ reported error [...]

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Inoculating a Reply All plague

June 1st, 2009 · 2 Comments · Content management, Lessons, Technology

TweetThe “Reply All” feature of most email programs like Outlook is a convenience ripe for abuse. Unfortunately such abuse seems to occur about once a quarter or so where I work. Folks add an alias to their message (To or Cc) that ends up involving a multitude of folks who could care less about the [...]

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Recall this message

July 27th, 2005 · 1 Comment · Lessons, Technology

TweetInstead of recalling messages, delay their delivery long enough to confirm they’re truly right to send in the first place. While reviewing my flagged and annotated items in Omea, I was reminded of Scott Hanselman’s post on Outlook’s “Recall this message” function being naive. When I first flagged Scott’s post, I annotated it to remember [...]

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