Entries tagged with email - Channel 10

How To Search Your PSTs with Vista's Built-In Search

Sarah Perez — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:32:00 GMT

Do you archive your email to PST files (maybe due to a corporate policy limiting your mailbox size)? If so, you know that even though it's archived, you will still need to access those old emails from time to time. If you don't want to keep all your archives open in your Outlook, there is another way...if you use Windows Vista. With Vista's built-in search option, you can specify that you want PSTs to be indexed (this is not turned on by default). It's pretty easy to set this up, just follow these steps:

Go to the Control Panel
Choose "Indexing Options"
Click on the "Advanced" button
Click on the "File Types" tab
Check the checkbox next to "PST" to include it in the search
Select the bullet next to the option "Index Properties and File Contents"
Click OK and OK again on the message that appears.

You're done! Now you can use Vista's built-in search to find that email you need!

Get a yourname@live.com email now!

Max Zuckerman — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:23:00 GMT

Ever since we came out with live.com I have been a huge fan of the domain name. You say "Google it" I say "Live it!" To each his own.

Either way, for a long time I have been asking the product teams to use username@live.com instead of user@hotmail.com as my email address... and today they have delivered! Starting right now you can go here and register a name, like clownmember.f4r7@live.com.

Sign Into Hotmail With One Click

Sarah Perez — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:27:00 GMT

Did you know that you can sign into Hotmail with just one click? Neither did I, until I saw this post on Windows Live Chronicles blog. Here's how it works:

Install the "Windows Live Sign In Assistant." Currently, this comes with Windows Live Messenger if you check the option to "Install Windows Live Sign-in Assistant."
Go to http://mail.live.com instead of http://www.hotmail.com
Check "Remember on this computer", and "Remember my password," then click "Login."
Repeat process if you have more than one account. (For details on those steps, see their blog post.)
From now on, you can access your mailbox from mail.live.com with one click!

Outlook 2007 Tip: Preview PDFs Automatically

Sarah Perez — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:48:00 GMT

Did you know that Outlook 2007 can be configured to allow you to preview PDF attachments automatically? With this handy tip from the Living-With-Outlook blog, you can easily set up your Outlook to allow PDF previewing right in the Outlook's Preview Pane. To get started, you first need to download the latest version of Adobe's Acrobat Reader (currently version 8.1). After it's installed, restart Outlook, and locate an email that has a PDF attached. You should now be able to preview the file just like you would any other previewable file - just click the PDF icon in the Reading Pane and your PDF will display to the right of your message list. Longer PDFs will be scrollable using the scroll bar or arrow keys. When you're finished previewing the attachment, one more click will easily return you to the email message.

Windows Live Custom Domains

Sarah Perez — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:13:00 GMT

At the Windows Live Custom Domains site, you can sign up to receive unlimited domain name email addresses for a domain name that you already own or you can purchase a domain through one of the site's partners. The free service is hosted and managed by Microsoft, so you don't have to worry with equipment or scale issues and can just focus on running your business.

The Custom Domains service also lets you manage your domain accounts online using the provided web tools or you can allow your site's visitors to create their own accounts using open membership. These custom domain name email addresses work out-of-the-box with Windows Live and MSN services, like Messenger and Spaces and have 2 GB of storage per mailbox. The service is initially limited to 100 email addresses at first but can be upgraded for free to an unlimited number by completing a short questionnaire.

Customized Outlook Conversations View

Sarah Perez — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:02:00 GMT

Would you like a way to keep track of all the conversations that you initiated in your Outlook email? This can be done by combining an Outlook view with a search folder. Follow the steps below and you will have a folder that shows your email as conversation threads:

Create a new search folder (New -> Search Folder)
Specify Inbox and Sent items as the only folders to include in the search, but don't specify any search criteria. The search folder will show all items from the Inbox and the Sent Items folder.
Create a new view by copying the "Messages" view (In Outlook 2003 - View, Arrange By, Current View, Define Views, then copy the "Messages" view)
In the view, select the option to Group by "Conversation" and Sort by "Conversation index."
Click the Filter button and go to the SQL tab.
Check the "Edit these criteria directly" checkbox.
Copy and paste the DASL filter from below, changing the text "your name" to your actual name:

"urn:schemas:httpmail:fromname" = 'Your Name' OR(("urn:schemas:httpmail:displayto" LIKE '%Your Name%' OR"urn:schemas:httpmail:displaycc" LIKE '%Your Name%') AND("urn:schemas:httpmail:subject" LIKE 'RE:%' OR "urn:schemas:httpmail:subject" LIKE 'AW:%'))

8. Apply the new view on the newly created search folder

Thanks to Carsten Kinder for this tip!

Get Your Webmail in Your Outlook

Sarah Perez — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 23:52:00 GMT

Do you want to use Outlook 2003 or Outlook 2007 to check your Windows Live Mail (formerly known as Hotmail)? You used to be able to configure HTTP through Outlook, but then need a paid subscription to do so. However, with the new Microsoft Office Outlook Connector Beta, you can now download, read, and compose Windows Live Mail emails for free.

If you do not have a paid subscription, the Outlook Connector Beta enables you to use your Live accounts within Outlook to read and send your Office Live Mail/Windows Live Hotmail e-mail messages, manage your Live Mail contacts, use advanced options for blocking junk email messages, and manage multiple email accounts in one place.

With a paid subscription, the Outlook Connector Beta also enables the ability to manage, share, and synchronize your Windows Live Calendar in Outlook and access your Tasks and Notes. The beta is available for download here.

Windows Live Hotmail is here!

Laura Foy — Thu, 10 May 2007 19:32:00 GMT

This week we launched Windows Live Hotmail, a new Web-based e-mail platform and the follow-on to its successful MSN Hotmail service. The new e-mail service will not only look a lot more like Outlook, Microsoft's popular e-mail application, but it will integrate with it, too.

Windows Live Hotmail will bring a few changes to Hotmail. Most notably, the interface was designed after Outlook, and will include familiar Outlook features, like right-click and drag-and-drop capabilities, preview pane customization, and auto-complete addressing.

Check out this clip and see it in full action. Then....go get it!

Exchange Hosted Services: Right solution, right time, right price for healthcare

Bill Crounse, MD — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:41:00 GMT

If you are charged with managing e-mail, messaging, and other forms of electronic communication and collaboration in a healthcare organization large or small, you will be very interested in learning more about Exchange Hosted Services from Microsoft. For starters, check out the new audio-cast on this topic in my House Calls for Healthcare Professionals series. This just might be the solution you've been waiting for.

Click below to access the programs

Exchange Hosted Services: Secure email communication and collaboration in healthcare
This program is also available in MP3 for download.

Program Introduction and Guests:

E-mail communication has become the norm for consumers and business people. And when it comes to healthcare, consumers have a growing expectation that they should be able to communicate electronically with their doctor or hospital, just as they do with their bank, retail store, or other service industry provider. Striving to increase efficiency and curb rising costs, healthcare providers are turning to e-mail to replace paper-based communications. But healthcare poses some special challenges when it comes to maintaining confidentiality and privacy. To address issues raised by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and other regulatory requirements, healthcare organizations must evaluate and implement organization-wide security best practices and technologies—adding potential complexity and expense to the equation. Finally, there’s a solution for more secure e-mail communication for healthcare: Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services.

Panel guests:

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Forrest Hobbs, director of sales and market development for Exchange Hosted Services (formerly known as Frontbridge Technologies), has worked on Exchange Hosted Services since 2001. He develops and implements programs for sales, marketing, and business development. Previously, Forrest headed business development for TTI/Vanguard, a technology think tank for Fortune 500 companies and government agencies.

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Danny Bohm, senior product manager for Exchange Hosted Filtering and Exchange Hosted Encryption, has worked with Exchange Hosted Services and its customers since 2003. Prior to that, Daniel led research and development and operations teams at iBeam Broadcasting, a streaming media production and hosting company.

Additional resources

Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services

I hope you enjoy the program!

Bill Crounse, MD Healthcare Industry Director Microsoft

ClearContext: Prioritize your email!

Laura Foy — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:18:00 GMT

Is your email Inbox an unmanagable trash fire? Deva Hazarika, CEO of ClearContext, stopped by to show me how their Outlook addition will apply logic to your inbox, sorting and sifting your emails in ways that make you an efficient comm machine. Working like a digital butler, ClearContext watches your email patterns and quickly learns who is important and who can wait. Whether you go for the free version or step up to the pro package, your inbox will thank you. Check it out for yourself!