HowTo-Outlook

On June 15, Microsoft Munich/Unterschließheim (Germany) will be hosting the “Office (VSTO) Community Day”.

The topics discussed are focusing on development for SharePoint and Office such as;

• New features in VSTO 4.0 for Office 2010
• OpenXML File Format SDK
• Extending the Outlook Social Connector
• Programming examples of using Outlook’s Explorer, Inspector, Ribbon and Form-Regions.

Admission is free and speakers include both Microsoft developers and MVPs. So if you live/are in the neighborhood, and are an Office developer, don’t forget to signup as space is limited.

The Business Contact Manager Team has announced on their Team Blog that Business Contact Manager 2010 has reached the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) status.

It is directly available via Volume Licensing and will soon be added to MSDN and TechNet as well.

I’ve updated the “Setting Outlook Group Policies” guide to include information for Office 2010.

Group Policies allow you to enforce settings on a specific or a group of users or computers. This is mainly to be used to change or limit the default behavior of Office applications in an Active Directory environment but can also be useful in some home environments.

The Setting Outlook Group Policies guide explains how you can set Group Policies for Outlook in these environments and which tools are needed for it.

Microsoft has released 2 tools under an open source license. These 2 tools will allow developers to edit an pst-file without the need for Outlook to be installed on a machine or even for the machine to be running Windows.

The tools and their projects are hosted on CodePlex;
Download: PST Data Structure View Tool
Download: PST File Format SDK
View: Microsoft Delivers on Interoperability Principles With Office Outlook

The tools follow the earlier released Outlook Personal Folders File Format (.pst) Structure Specification.

New Junk E-mail Filter definitions have been made available for Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007.

Download: Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Junk Email Filter (KB981725)
Download: Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Junk Email Filter (KB981726)

If you have Windows Update configured to also update other Microsoft applications, then this update will also also be offered via Windows Update or has already been updated automatically for you.