If your favorites bar in outlook is missing from any reason you can return it by simple step.         Close your outlook . Navigate to Start>run Type outlook.exe /resetnavpane Your favorites bar will be restored but you will need to re-add your folders again. Read more

  During migration from Exchange 2003 to 2007 we had the problem with Outlook 2007 client free busy response was slow , about 10 seconds to load . To fix it . Open registry editor on your Desktop(where outlook is installed) Navigate to the following path : HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice12.0OutlookOptionsCalendar Create new DWORD value named UseLegacyFB and set value to 1 Note: 0 or not set will use default outlook settings 1 will use Public Folder based Free/Busy Read more

To delete Microsoft Office 2003/2007 add-ins from registry follow the steps bellow Go to start>run type regedit and hit the enter key For Word – Delete the keys bellow – You can delete the key by pressing right click and delete HKEY_Local_Machine Software Microsoft OfficewordAddins HKEY_Local_Machine Software Microsoft OfficeX.0wordAddins HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software Microsoft OfficeX.0 WordAddins HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software Microsoft Office WordAddins For PowerPoint – Delete Read more

You receive a meeting and see a small note that meeting is not in your calendar To fix the problem do the following. Close your outlook and search your computer for FRMCACHE.DAT file. Make sure to select hidden and system files. Delete it. Restart Outlook. Outlook should rebuild FRMCACHE.DAT file. Other option is to to run outlook.exe /cleanreminders command line switch . To see other command line switches look at Outlook command line switches. Read more

To cleanup your calendar size you can delete old meetings and meetings with attachments. navigate to your calendar. Press on View and chose “all appointments”   Chose those that you’d like to delete. Read more

Copy you contact list from Microsoft Outlook (2003 or 2007) to Gmail Account: Open Outlook Go to File>Import and Export. Select “Export to a file” and click “Next”. Choose “Comma-separated values” and click on Next Locate your contacts folder and click “Next”. Save the file in .csv extension. Now go to you Gmail account. Click the “Contacts” on the left pane and subsequently select “Import” at the top right corner. 8. Click browse Read more

Outlook 2007 Business manager can be uninstalled via Add or Remove Programs (Programs and Features in Vista) However, if you want to keep Business Contact Manager and only remove it from outlook it can be done via registry: Close Outlook. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK. Navigate to the  following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftOfficeOutlookAddinsMicrosoft.BusinessSolutions.eCRM.OutlookAddIn.Connect.1 Right-click on  LoadBehavior, Read more

Recently I had to release email after work hours and I wondered if outlook have that option and I was verry happy to find it. To schedule automatic email send follow the steps. After you finished writing your  email, don't click Send (yet). In Outlook 2007: Click Options Then click on Delay Delivery and schedule when to send the message     Just fill when you want to send the message as seen on the image bellow _______________________________________________________________________________________ Read more

Recently I had to recover my PST file password and I did it with PstPassword utility This utility can recover PST for all Outlook versions , from 97 up to 2007. PST Password works as stand alone utility , no  Office installation is required Using PstPassword In order to start using it, just run the executable file, PstPassword.exe After you run the Password reset utility , the main window displays the list of all PST files of the current logged on user (Under Documents and SettingsUser NameLocal Read more

As you probably know Microsoft releases set of DST patches for their systems every year at December . To avoid DST calendar issues  make sure to install/deploy the following updates to entire organization. Microsoft Windows Server and Windows XP/Vista Clients : KB 955839 Microsoft Exchange Server and outlook 2000/2003/2007 Clients:KB 941018 make sure to read MS DST Blog The country that was skipped in MS  Day Light Saving update are Argentina/Brazil and Chile. Daylight saving time begins: Read more