David Vielmetter

Tag: Outlook 2010

  • Mail (32-bit) control panel icon blank

    This issue specifically affects Windows 7 Pro SP1 installations with Microsoft Office 2010 Standard SP2. The issue manifests itself after Office 2010 Standard is installed and all windows and office patches from Windows update have been applied. When the control panel of the system is opened, the mail.cpl icon for managing Microsoft Outlook email profiles…

  • Removing automapped accounts from Outlook

    Full mailbox access permission and account automapping are a great exchange features. Automapping was introduced in Exchange 2010 and basically uses autodiscover to automatically map all mailboxes in Outlook to which a user has full access permission. Automapping was a boon for Exchange admins who no longer had to walk users through the process of…

  • Locate which folder a found email is stored in

    Got a ton of folders/sub-folders in Outlook and want to know which one that email you found is stored in? Here’s how to do it: [step 1] Open the email message by double clicking it in the search result window. [step 2] Click File and note that next to the Move to folder button the…

  • Shoretel is keeping Outlook from launching

    If you’re running the Shoretel Communicator and Outlook 2010/2013, you may have seen a situation where Outlook doesn’t launch and hangs at the splash screen stating “loading profile…”. This is actually caused by a small program named agent.exe that is part of Shoretel Communicator. This agent.exe program is designed to download contacts from your email…

  • Links in Outlook 2010 won’t work

    Some pictures part of HTML email messages do not render in the message preview pane in Microsoft Outlook 2010. Also, when clicking links in Outlook 2010, the following message is observed: This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator. The problem is most likely not…

  • View message options in Outlook 2010

    In versions prior to Outlook 2010, finding the message options button to view the email’s Internet headers was a relatively straight forward task. In Outlook 2010, however the message options button is no longer on the ribbon. Here’s how to put it on the ribbon so you can once again analyze those message Internet Headers…

  • CTRL+Click Signature to edit HTML outlook signature

    So you’re using Outlook 2010 or 2007 and want to edit your e-mail signature…but *really* edit your signature…like edit the actual HTML in Notepad++. Mostly because the editor available in Outlook->Options->Mail is pretty dismal if you want to create a nice HTML signature.  Here’s how to edit the actual HTML of your signature for HTML…

  • Merge duplicate Outlook contacts

    So you’ve got a bunch of duplicate contacts in outlook, huh? I know how it happens…you’re out and about and quickly added a contact to your synced iPhone/Blackberry not realizing that he/she already existed. Now you’ve got two of ’em one with an address and one with a couple of phone numbers and an email.…