David Vielmetter

Tag: Microsoft

  • MFA in office 365 finally just works (mostly)

    Microsoft has finally managed to get modern authentication to work in the latest updated versions of Office products included with Office 365 (Except for Skype for Business – which is being discontinued anyway). Here’s a quick start guide on how to get it up and running: You’ll need an Office 365 subscription, a computer running…

  • Your new Exchange server sends Winmail.dat attachments to recipients on a Mac

    This is an old issue, but it still affects modern version of Exchange (yes even Exchange 2013). Basically emails sent from a corporate email server running Microsoft Exchange will appear to have a Winmail.dat attachment when received on a Mac computer using the native OSX mail application. This can happen regardless of the email format…

  • Delegate settings not saved correctly

    In Microsoft Outlook, when working with Exchange server, you can permit another user to view your calendar, tasks and email items. You can even allow other users to schedule meetings, write emails and create contacts on your behalf.

  • 10 Reasons to love the new Outlook.com

    I’ve been beta testing Outlook.com for a month now and I like it. Finally Microsoft got it right with a simple and uncomplicated web based email experience. Best of all, now anyone can experience Outlook.com. Simply switch your Hotmail account over to the new UI or create a new account at Outlook.com. Here are the…

  • Free copy of Microsoft Products for students

    In the world of IT, testing out configurations is a big part of implementation and deployment. You don’t want to deploy an application if it won’t work properly…especially if your environment has hundreds or even thousands of users. That’s why I have an unhealthy number of virtual machines with various versions of Windows and Windows…

  • Outlook 2011 for Mac

    So I got Outlook 2011 the other day, thinking that it might be a better solution than Thunderbird + DavMail. It works well enough with exchange 2007 and 2010, but if you’re connecting to exchange/sbs 2003…forget about it – it’s not supported. That got me thinking…if an iPhone can connect exchange 2003, why can’t the…

  • Paste as plain text in Outlook

    I use Outlook at work and a lot of the information I send out in messages is copied from various sources to the clipboard and then to the pasted into the new message dialog. One thing that has always annoyed me about this process is that by default in Outlook the underlying styling/formatting of the…

  • Archive your corporate e-mail, it’s the law

    As of December 2006 the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) rules have been amended to require institutions to archive their email and other electronic data so they can present present it as evidence in civil litigation. An entire industry has sprouted up to help companies comply with what is commonly termed eDiscovery law. The…

  • Fix broken images in Outlook 2003

    A strange problem exists with Microsoft Outlook 2003 where embedded images in HTML encoded messages are replaced by a red x (broken image). After searching lots of articles on Google which suggest an issue with a temporary internet folder called OLK20 or OLK40 I was still unsuccessful in fixing the broken image problem. Here’s how…