Just a very quick one as I came across this for the first time in ages today. This isn’t particularly new but I wanted to document it somewhere! When opening Outlook you receive the error “Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window. Invalid XML, the view cannot be loaded.” What this means is
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Sync Text Messages To Your Mailbox
File this under “I didn’t know it could do that” Using your smartphone to connect to your work email is a pretty standard thing nowadays. They just about all support ActiveSync so your iPhone, Android, Windows Phone and Blackberry will all do email, calendars and contacts to an Exchange server without much fuss. However, the
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Dealing With Email Stuck In The Outbox
Everyone once in while when using Outlook you’ll get messages that just refuse to send. Looking down the folder list you see the dreaded number next to the Outbox that lets you know something isn’t quite right Clicking on the folder shows the message just sitting there. You try double clicking the message and pressing
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Outlook 2010 – Auto Complete Files
Just a quick one as a reminder as it caught me out! You’re probably aware that Outlook stores the names that appear when you type a mail recipient in an .NK2 file. In the past when moving a user between PCs all we needed to do with grab the .NK2 file from the old PC
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The Case of the Vanishing E-mails
I just wanted to relay a support call I’ve just dealt with as it really had me stumped. For a while I was concerned there was something really bad happening but now that I’ve gotten to the bottom of it I can breathe easy as it wasn’t actually all that serious Our client called to
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Outlook 2007, public folders and categories
I had an e-mail conversation with a client this week who uses Exchange public folders to share contacts. He initially was planning on creating sub-folders to group the contacts(suppliers, customers, etc) I suggested he used categories as it would mean it was still one place to go for their contacts but they could use a
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Error when clicking an email link
Got a call from a client today He was making some changes to the contact details on his website and when clicked on one of the email addresses in the page he got the following error message “Could not perform this operation because the default mail client is not properly installed” Bit odd. He is
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Outlook Connector Fixed
After my post last week about problems with the Outlook Connector it appears to have all been fixed! I checked my mail this morning and it had sync’d correctly. I took another look at the Outlook blog and there are lots of reports of the issue now being resolved The comment from the Outlook Program
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Wish i’d kept the beta!
I posted a little while back about the very cool Outlook Connector that lets you access a hotmail account within Outlook All in all i’ve been pretty pleased with it. I read somewhere recently it was no longer a beta so planned to upgrade to the “proper” version A couple of days ago i opened
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Outlook 2003, faulting module outllib.dll in Windows XP
I got a call today where one of our clients was unable to open Outlook (2003) She would open it and get the standard “we’re sorry but Outlook needs to close” error. She would restart and unless she went into safe mode it would just keep doing the same thing The event log entry basically said “faulting