Karl Timmermans
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Understanding best practices to protect Outlook data
A question/issue seen frequently is how to protect Outlook data on machines used by multiple users. To summarize what can and can’t be done Once a user is logged into the Windows account, there is no way to password protect an Outlook profile which means any user can open Outlook using any existing profile by […]
How to recreate contact entries-addressbook from email folders
There are times when all contacts are lost with the result being that the Address Book is empty. One such case is when contacts are stored in an IMAP contact folder with the added description of “This Computer Only” and the OST file is recreated by Outlook. In order to recreate the email addresses from […]
How to split an Outlook Contact Group-Distribution List
There are times when splitting a Contact Group (Distribution List) is required such as number of members is too large or desire to split the members along different interest lines. There is no way within Outlook to split an existing Contact Group in smaller segments. The approach to use to split the group would be […]
How to create an Outlook 2016 profile without an email account
After Office 365 (Office 2016) has been installed, you will be prompted to configure an email account. Not everyone wants to use Outlook as their email client or only want to use it to maintain their contact and calendar data. Unlike earlier versions of Outlook, the only way to eliminate the constant prompt to configure […]
How to manually configure an email account in Outlook 2016
Some people are getting confused when migrating from earlier versions of Outlook to current versions of Outlook ‘2016 in reference as to how to manually configure an email account since the UI has changed. The first screen that gets presented is the one below which requires you to enter an email address. Once the email […]
