Today I encountered a situation where whenever a mail with attachment was being forwarded, the mail would lose it’s attachment. Even in the sent items for the shared mailbox the was no attachment to be found. After a lot of troubleshooting I found out that when enabling Outlook Cache mode on the Outlook profile it […]
Read More »When in PowerPoint (or word etc) you can import icons to your slides by going to ‘Insert -> Icons’. You can get a error like below; “An error occurred while importing this file. https://cdn.hubblecontent.osi.office.net/icons/publish/icons_statistics_ltr/statistics_ltr.svg” To fix this issue, open Internet Explorer, go to settings -> advanced -> and search for “Don’t save encrypted pages to […]
Read More »When you (accidently) press ‘backspace’ within Outlook you will see your highlighted email dissapear. You will not find it in deleted items or even in restore deleted items, because it’s in your ‘Archive’ folder within your profile. Find your ‘Archive’ folder and you will see the message you just pressed ‘backspace’ on.
Read More »Recently i faced some Outlook 2016 functionality issues. It became impossible to sent / receive email. In Outlook 2016 options there was a message ‘Upgrade in progress’ This could be there for days without any change. Some websites are saying that opening Outlook in /safe mode is resolving the issue, this was not the case […]
Read More »In a terminal server session (RDP / RDS) Outlook, or the whole Office 2013 suite seems very slow in comparison with Office 2010. To workaround this issue you have to change your RDP-Display options to 16 or 24 bit (32bit is default). To do this: Open ‘remote desktop connection'(mstsc) Choose ‘Show options’ -> Display -> […]
Read More »To make sure your mailbox doesn’t grow too big at the mailserver a good way to save your mail items is to create a pst file. Rather than exporting -> deleting -> and opening a .pst file which is an often used method you can more easily create a .pst file within Outlook. Open Outlook […]
Read More »Open Outlook and go to Calendar. Go to View and click on Change View and select Active. Now you select all items (Control + A) Copy all the selected items (Control + C) And now paste the items on the destination calendar (Control + V) That’s it!
Read More »Can’t remove additional mailbox(es) from Outlook 2010 When you can’t delete it by the following procedure: 1. Right click the Mailbox you wish to remove (or your Mailbox). 2. Select DATA FILE PROPERTIES. 3. In the GENERAL tab, click ADVANCED. 4. ADVANCED 5. In the “Open these additional mailboxes” list, select the one you want […]
Read More »If you want to automatically save an attachment to a folder on your computer/server do the following: Open Outlook and open Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (Alt + F11). Expand the tree view on the left till you reach ThisOutlookSession, now right click on ThisOutlookSession and select insert -> module. You will now get a […]
Read More »When you try to open an attachment which came in a email you get the message ‘This file is damaged’ you need to do the following: Open word / excel / powerpoint (whatever attachment you have) # Open WORD -> file -> options -> trust center -> settings -> Protected View -> uncheck the 3 […]
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