Tag Archives: Outlook

Outlook 2019: Crash when clicking "Send to"; and Outlook 365 deletes rules

Posted on 2023-11-28 by guenni

[German]I'd like to summarize two topics related to Outlook that readers pointed out to me yesterday. It seems that a bug has crept into Outlook 2019 that causes the program to crash when "Send from" is selected. And another reader … Continue reading →

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Outlook bug for slow saving fixed – fix being tested with insiders

Posted on 2023-11-18 by guenni

[German]Microsoft recently fixed a bug in conventional Outlook that caused problems when saving attachments. The problem has annoyed Outlook 365 users since July 2023 who wanted to save attachments to network shares. The saving processes took a very long time … Continue reading →

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How to find weak passwords in Active Directory and eliminate them with PowerShell

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New Outlook app: Microsoft's statement on transferred credentials and content

Posted on 2023-11-16 by guenni

[German]After it became public knowing, that the new Outlook app transmits access data for mail accounts (credentials and content) to Microsoft,  Redmond has now explained the issue to German news site heise and made some statements. Tenor: If you use … Continue reading →

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Beware: New Outlook app transfers access data to Microsoft

Posted on 2023-11-12 by guenni

[German]I'm picking up on an (actually old) topic here in the blog, which is becoming virulent again with the new Outlook app introduced by Microsoft. The new Outlook app transfers all (actually secret) access data for mail accounts to Microsoft … Continue reading →

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New Outlook: Microsoft will definitely not support COM add-ins

Posted on 2023-10-20 by guenni

[German]Hope dies last, but now it's finally dead. Microsoft has just clarified in a blog post that the new Outlook app, which will eventually replace the classic Outlook, will not support COM. I touched on this topic here on the … Continue reading →

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Microsoft fixes "open window" bug on Outlook startup

Posted on 2023-10-03 by guenni

[German]Microsoft Outlook users have been plagued by an annoying bug since the end of June 2023. The program asked at every startup whether windows open in the previous session should be opened again (even if there were no such windows). … Continue reading →

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Microsoft introduce the new Outlook for Windows in a video

Posted on 2023-09-12 by guenni

Margie Clinton, Group Product Manager on the Outlook team, and Robert Novitskey, partner engineering manager for Outlook for Windows have provided an update on the new Outlook for Windows (app) via video. That's according to this Techcommunity post, where the … Continue reading →

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Outlook 365: Search in shared calendars broken? (August 2023)

Posted on 2023-08-29 by guenni

[German]Brief information for users and administrators of Microsoft Office 365. I have received a message from an IT service provider who reports a problem with customers that the search in shared calendars in Outlook has been broken for a few … Continue reading →

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Outlook: Body of accepted meetings is write only now; by design after Office August 2023 update

Posted on 2023-08-27 by guenni

[German]Short information for administrators of Office installations with Microsoft Outlook. I received reports, that since installing August 2023 updates for Microsoft Outlook were installed, the so-called body text of appointments can only be changed by the organizer of the appointment. … Continue reading →

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Workaround/Fix for Outlook issue: Appointments automatically become Teams meetings

Posted on 2023-08-08 by guenni

[German]Another small addendum to a problem with Outlook. In the blog, I had picked up on the annoying behavior that Outlook appointments have automatically become Teams meetings for some time. At the weekend, I came across a workaround and a … Continue reading →

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