Category: Outlook

M365 Copilot, Outlook for Mobile reset

I was recently working with a customer enabling Copilot for their end users. After the Copilot license was assigned, it took several minutes to have Outlook for Windows, Word, PowerPoint, and Teams to have the Copilot option appear. However, the Outlook for Mobile app was taking longer. As a first step (as always it seems

Where is OMA?

Some of you may ask, what is OMA? Back in the day, Exchange 2003, mobile devices were starting to make their way into the corporate world. Outlook Mobile Access (OMA) was introduced to help provide a small, thin foot print to mobile devices. You have to also remember that back in 2003, cellular networks were not what they are

Subset of items in Outlook are sync’d

Ran into a customer having this issue: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3140747/only-a-subset-of-items-are-synchronized-in-shared-mailboxes-or-public Thus, wanted people to know, that there are work arounds, if you are having uses in Outlook, that are not seeing all sync’d items. The good news, there are some registry values you can adjust. And never forget, any registry values, can be controlled via Group Policy

E-mail junk add in for Outlook

The Junk E-mail Reporting Tool lets you easily report misclassified e-mail to Microsoft and its affiliates for analysis to help improve the effectiveness of the e-mail protection technologies. From the Outlook ribbon, you can click Report as Junk, Report as Phishing, or Report as Not Junk to send a report to Microsoft. You will be

Get-OutlookBitValue

This little function is interesting, it will display the bit version of the Outlook client on a machine. I got this from an internal discussion, that someone needed to get an answer for a customer. I grabbed the code, functioned it up, and here it is. Now, my first thought is, why does it matter?

MO_Module introduction

I’d like to introduce you to my MO_Module. It’s a PowerShell module, combining several daily administrative tasks into simple Verb-Noun Functions for engineers to perform their jobs easier. I was developing/maintaining several different PS modules, which became more work, so I thought I’d just combine everything into one single place. Since my primary technologies are

Spam notification message

I’ve run into this a couple of times now with customers, consequently thought I’d finally get around to writing a blog post. The question is, can spam notifications be sent less than once a day? What are we talking about. In Exchange online, there is a notification message that is sent to users’ mailboxes periodically,

One stop page for Outlook updates

It’s getting harder and harder to stay up with all the changes in technology, but once in a while, a single landing place appears, which leads to the ever-updating Outlook product page: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Fixes-or-workarounds-for-recent-issues-in-Outlook-for-Windows-ecf61305-f84f-4e13-bb73-95a214ac1230 The is page is maintained by the Microsoft Outlook support engineers. While there are lots of internet pages to monitor and watch, this

Outlook prompting for restart

Q: We’re getting reports that Outlook is prompting users for a restart, is this normal? A: This is expected…once again. Even using Exchange 2013 or 2016 versions. History: The Exchange and Outlook product groups try their best to minimize any disruptions that impact end uses. However, sometimes there are technologies that are built in that

Ruler in Outlook

Q: Is there a way to enable the rule option in Outlook? A: Yes. The ruler option in Word is also available in Outlook. Easy enough to turn on for specific client machines or for every Outlook client within your domain environment by applying a GPO. Set the following registry key value: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Word\Options\WordMail] "Ruler"=dword:00000001 (Enables