Dear readers, Thank you for all of your suggestions and feedback to this blog. There will not be any new posts to this blog in the near future. To see more about what is going on now in Outlook, I highly recommend the Outlook Team blog , where my collegues...

I recently was passed a blog that I thought might interest some of you about how to use OneNote as part of a Getting Things Done system. Check it out: http://www.blog.7breaths.co.uk/2007/06/gtd-with-onenote-collected-links.html If you are interested...

The Outlook Team has just created a new blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook . Going forward, the Outlook Team blog will be the place to find out more about Outlook, beyond just tasks and time management in Outlook. Below is a list of topics that...

Hey everyone, please get the latest update for Outlook 2007. It has several performance improvements and should improve the general responsiveness of Outlook when reading, moving, deleting and downloading e-mail messages for users who have large mailbox...

Saw this article in the Seattle PI this morning and thought it might interest some of you: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/300740_msftinfomania23x.html It talks about how we are all overloaded with information, and steps we can take to cope...

I am excited to announce that the Outlook 2007 gadgets for the Windows Vista Sidebar have just been posted to the web! Check them out: · Outlook Upcoming Appointments – shows you your upcoming appointments. · Outlook Tasks – shows you your tasks...

I am happy to announce that on Friday, November 3 the 2007 Microsoft Office system was released to manufacturing. You can read the official press release here . Thank you to everyone that helped to make this great event happen! YEAH OFFICE!

I have heard of a few instances where people love the To-Do Bar, but can't figure out how to get tasks off of it. So here is a little explanation. Because the To-Do Bar is a collection of tasks, flagged mail and flagged contacts, when you delete...

Hey you! I am looking for some good scenarios around lightweight project management (hierarchical task lists, sub tasks, dependent tasks, etc – you choose.) Please help me help you by adding a comment on this blog with your best lightweight project management...

The following is the first in a series of two posts from Jon Kaufthal, a program manager from the Project team. - Melissa Hi Outlook task fans--I’m excited to introduce you to Project Server’s integration with Outlook. Tasks are a big part of the...

The following is the second in a series of two posts from Jon Kaufthal, a program manager from the Project team. Click here to see the first post. - Melissa For those of you new to Project and Project Server, see my first post before reading on...

Check out Olya's latest post on Assigning Outlook tasks from OneNote shared notebooks . She details how to use OneNote as a depository for a shared task list. Cool stuff! -Melissa

For some of you, flags may have had a whole different meaning, and the fact that the To-Do Bar is cluttered with your flagged mail and flagged contacts may not be working for you. Here is a solution: filter the To-Do Bar to just show tasks! To filter...

For all you OneNote fans out there, Olya has just started her own OneNote Blog . Her blog will probably cover a myriad of topics, including task integration, and lots of tips and tricks; her first post is about enabling searching of OneNote content on...

An update (technical refresh) for Beta 2 has been released. As this is an update, it needs to be installed over Beta 2. Files saved in the Beta 2 file format may not open once the update is installed, so save your documents in legacy formats before applying...

Do you have a pst or an archive that has tasks and flagged mail it, but the tasks and flagged mail don’t show up on the To-Do Bar? Here’s how you can make it work! Right click on the name of your archive, (in the picture below, the archive is named...

Every now and then someone asks about how to use Outlook 2007 with the Getting Things Done (GTD) / Take Back Your Life! methodology, which suggests heavy use of categories and tasks to manage your mail, tasks, and life. Here are some tips for getting...

Since starting work in Outlook, I have begun to think about the unwritten rules of e-mail etiquette and about how we could save each other a great deal of time, energy, and grief if we just did a little thinking before we hit the send button. Most recently...

Here is a post from Olya Veselova of OneNote. A few of you have mentioned in comments How I work with Outlook 12 that you use OneNote; the following should really interest you. Look for more posts from Olya here in the future. From Olya: I am Program...

From Hank Leukart: Working at Microsoft is the most fun when we get to fulfill customers’ dreams – or at least their software needs. Sometimes, we hear a feature request so often from so many different customers that it becomes clear that it’s a feature...

Now that Beta2 is out, it seems like high time I explain how I use the new time management system in Outlook to manage my tasks and e-mail. There are many ways of managing one’s time, and what follows is just my approach. Fortunately, the new system is...

Hooray! Beta2 is out! Checkout http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/default.mspx for more details.

There is a good post on internet calendars written by Can Comertoglu, Outlook PM on Michael Affronti's blog. Check it out: http://blogs.msdn.com/michael_affronti/archive/2006/05/10/594986.aspx -Melissa

Andrew Coates was kind enough to point out that there is another way to hide a folder that is much, much simpler. Thanks Andrew! If you have one particular folder that you want to hide, for example, a task folder of Christmas presents for your family...

Recently, I received the following e-mail and I thought I would post my response: Hi Melissa, Since you’re so active on bloggin on Outlook I was wondering if you can help me solve this question. I have about 35 task folders in Outlook and...