Windows 10 Poor Graphics Performance – Part Deux
Things were running great with my new machine a Lenovo W541 until recently. When browsing email in Outlook it would take several seconds to collapse/expand folders and when selecting an …
Outlook
Office 2013–SP1 Now Required
In the last several customer engagements, there has been a trend to not install updates for Office 2013. Some admins thought that there was no service pack available, and others …
Outlook Prompts For Domain Certificate Unexpectedly
Ran into an issue where this Outlook 2010 SP2 client, build 14.0.7113.5000, was throwing up unexpected certificate errors for the domain. This is the Tailspintoys.ca domain.
User-1@tailspintoys.ca was complaining about …
Office 365 Error – Cannot Start Microsoft Outlook–Quick Check
Upon launching Outlook and trying to connect to an Office 365 mailbox you may be greeted with an error message which states that “Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the …
Outlook December 2014 Updates
The below is an excerpt from the December 2014 Office and Outlook updates. This was the first release of an Outlook 2010 build which supported MAPI/HTTP.
However there were some …
Office 2010 SP2–You Did Upgrade, Right?
Six months ago, we discussed that Office 2010 SP1 support was drawing to a close. This means that you now need to have Office 2010 SP2 deployed on all relevant …
Outlook 2013 Distorted Display Issues
After a recent video driver update, my corporate Outlook client started to do some strange things. Within Office 2013, the screen output would be distorted. Menu bars were not painted …
Office 2010 SP2– Do You Need To Upgrade?
Now that the Windows XP, Office 2003 and Exchange 2010 SP2 support expiration date has come and gone, the world is still turning and we are not in a state …
Outlook Unable To Connect To Exchange –Default Gateway Not Found
When doing some recent customer work for Exchange 2013, I ran into an annoying issue in one of my labs. Outlook 2013 refused to connect to Exchange 2013. A witch …
Patching Exchange? Don’t Overlook Outlook
When Microsoft performs an Exchange Risk Assessment Program (ExRAP) with a customer there are several work items related to patching. We discuss how the:
- Server hardware, firmware and