An Outlook Geek looks at 40

Meanderings and brain dumps from the world of an Outlook tech support perspective

Bring back the Cloudy to Cloudy Attachments

Outlook 2016 adds some fundamental attachment handling features that allow you by default to treat...

Date: 09/23/2016

Using the Outlook Object Model to add helper features - The LastName Problem

Back in the days before email viruses changed the game, the Microsoft Office applications were...

Date: 09/24/2013

Internet Headers and Outlook

In the world of SMTP mail there is the notion of "Internet Headers". This data which is considered a...

Date: 10/31/2012

Methods to send mail through Outlook

Back in 2008, I wrote a little VB6 test application to test sending a sample message using the three...

Date: 01/07/2011

The HOWTO and Sample Template for Custom Outlook Calendar Templates

Hopefully I am attaching the files for this topic along with this post. There should be a zip file...

Date: 06/24/2010

Create a minidump from VB.Net

I am a programming hack, but i do need to prototype tools for support. This month, I am working on a...

Date: 01/25/2008

A word about MAPI named properties ...

One of the early roadblocks to understanding MAPI and especially Outlook's integration with it, is...

Date: 02/27/2007

Sharing Messages in Outlook 2007

Im going to preference all these post by the words "I THINK:" This means that I believe all this...

Date: 01/12/2007

Where to begin ...

Ok, lets see ... I work for Microsoft supporting Outlook and get to spend a lot of time working on...

Date: 01/12/2007