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September 2009 - Posts

This is another calendar sync bug or maybe it’s another ‘no end date’ bug –  this time All day events that recur yearly are changed to recur every 12 years. It seems to be related to ActiveSync, Outlook 2007 SP2 and all day events with no end Read More
When a problem starts coming up often, it usually means it's time for a tip addressing it. The problem: “I want to insert an image into my signature.  When I click advanced edit I then click yes on using another editor. I then get an error saying Read More
This isn’t an Outlook tip today, because Outlook isn’t offered as a web app- only Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote…. but I thought it might be of interest to some of my readers. If you have a Live mail account (including Hotmail or MSN) and would Read More
An Outlook user was curious about the % of people who "use" OL but do not have it opened 100% of the time. There aren’t too many stats for this, so we’ll collect our own in a unscientific poll with an unknown margin of error. Anyone can respond to the Read More
Did you know that only last month, this month and the next ten months will have bolded dates in the small navigation calendars?  You’ll also need to make the appointments (or all day events) as Busy, Out of Office, or Tentative – items marked as Read More
Another frequent complaint lately: “I receive the following message when trying to open my email: Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. Unable to open the Outlook window. Could not open folders. No stores were found to be open.” You need to Read More
We’re seeing a resurgence of a problem with new appointments always appearing on ‘Today’, instead of the day they are supposed to be on, which means it’s probably time to rerun this tip. The complaint goes like this: “When i make an appointment it is Read More
Several people who switched to the Outlook Connector after HTTP access for Hotmail and MSN accounts was cut off are having issues with the connector. To get support for it, you need to go to  https://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?&ln=en-us&c1=505&gprid=6998&st=1  Read More
If you have an MSN or Hotmail account and are suddenly getting ‘access denied’ errors when you try to download mail through Outlook you probably missed the announcement that access using the HTTP protocol was going to end for good on Sept 1. From now Read More
This problem comes up in cycles: “If I open an email and go to print I get an error message:  Internet Explorer Script ErrorAn error has occurred in the script on this pageLine 253Char 1Error unspecified errorcode 0URL: res://ieframe.dll/preview.jsDo Read More