Office Zealot

Ryan Gregg, a Program Manager on the dev team with Outlook, has released details on some important changes to Outlook that will be in effect when Office 2007 SP2 (currently in Beta) is released   Out-of-process applications are now subject to crashes if proper error handling is not implemented.  Basically, if you have written a COM ...

I am now the new owner of the web's pre-eminent resource for Outlook programming - OutlookCode.com!  The esteemed Sue Mosher (author of many Outlook programming books and an Outlook MVP for over a decade) is changing her focus and has entrusted me to continue her efforts on maintaining a vibrant community for amateur and professional Outlook ...

  If you ever have a need to programmatically change Outlook's macro security settings (or to change it outside of Outlook), you can do so by editing the values of this key in the Windows Registry:   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Security\Level   These are the settings in Outlook's Macro Security ...

As a value added service to customers who have implemented (or will) SharePoint in their organization, I have established a relationship with Colligo Networks, Inc. as an official Colligo for SharePoint Partner.  I am now the sole integrator for Colligo in the Winnipeg and Manitoba regions.   As  a developer and integrator, I am ...

  The next version of my ''flagship'' Outlook Add-In, Picture Attachments Wizard 2.0 for Microsoft Outlook®, has officially been released!   Now includes support for Windows Vista Optimized for Outlook 2007 (all previous Outlook versions 2000 and greater are still supported) New image conversion features Performance ...

I use Xobni and Outlook 2007's Instant Search quite often.  Once I find and open the e-mail that I've retrieved using either mechanism, I almost always want to find and display the folder where that message is stored.  So here's a quick and handy little macro that will do just that: Sub DisplayFolderContainingOpenItem()On Error Resume ...

Well, another year, another MVP Summit.  Like every year, I had a blast.  Two things stand out for me this time around: 1. I got to sing Metallica's ''Enter Sandman'' with a live band! MVP Summit Karaoke - Eric and Metallica (note that I'm wearing a costume given the rock star theme for the party at the Experience Music Project; ...

There seem to be some people in the big world of blogging that have posted that the correct way to get Outlook messages to be correctly crawled and made searchable within Sharepoint is to edit the registry. They are now out of date, as Microsoft have released a Filter Pack that provides this functionality, albeit undocumented. The 3 blogs I have ...

Today was my first day back from vacation, a day that I almost always dedicate to trying to clean up my Inbox.  I've been meaning to write some VBA to help expedite moving e-mails to common folders, and this was the perfect opportunity.  Until Outlook 2007, there was no way to customize any of the right-click context menus that are ...

Here is the demo script for the VSTO 2005 SE Outlook Add-In demo I did today in the Webcast. The Add-In lets you select a contact from the AdventureWorks database and then populate a mail message with boilerplate and information from the database. Hope you enjoy this. Comments and questions welcome. Create the ...