What’s up with my Inbox in Outlook 2010?!

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Michael C. Oldenburg — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:56:56 GMT

Very nice overview, Michael. I especially appreciate all of the screenshots. The Conversations feature is one of my favorite improvements in the new version of Outlook!

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Michael Dragone — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:42:57 GMT

This is great! I've actually been doing this manually myself for about two years now with a bit of Search Folder trickery so having Outlook do it for me is GREAT!

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Michael Affronti [MSFT] — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:56:48 GMT

Thanks Michael! No problem! Glad you enjoyed the post and the feature.

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NickV — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:00:24 GMT

I hope that "Ignore" and "Clean Up" will have the option to send the email messages to somewhere *other* than the Deleted Items folder. If not, these awesome-sounding features will be essentially useless to me. There are times I want to ignore things but still have the messages available as an audit trail if I need to find something later on.

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Sachin — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:36:05 GMT

Wow...great features..I have already downloaded the technical preview..will install that and see.

I hope 2010 will also be helpful as 2007.

Thanks for a nice review Michael.

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Jakub Anderwald — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:35:05 GMT

Yep, ignore could actually move the messages directly to some archive (ie. pst file) folder, mark them read, and make the same with next messages from that conversation.

That way they wouldn't eat up your Exchange space, wouldn't bother you when they arrive, but would still be there if you need them in the future. Deleting is not an option - I don't delete any mail, you never know when you need it.

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anonymuos — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:00:43 GMT

Hey please support vCard 3.0 support in Outlook 2010 and the ability to export all your contacts as a single vCard. Please add this minor feature before RTM.

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Peter Flindt — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:33:27 GMT

Screens looks very great,

but I have a wish too, a better windwos integration, e.g.

-How to keep windows contact and windows calendar up to date with Outlook?

-What if I start outlook by the task sheduler? I still miss a minimized command line parameter

-Windows Messenger start Windows live mail, even though Outlook connecter is installed.

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Philip Colmer — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:39:49 GMT

I see from the screenshots that your contact entry for Eric Gilmore has got his photo in the contact details.

I *love* this feature but I really wish it was integrated into Active Directory in some way. For example, supposing someone has a My Site in SharePoint and they've set their photo. Wouldn't it be great for that to sync back to AD and then be propagated out (somehow) if you receive an email from that person?

Otherwise, it seems that it will forever remain a manual process and not see much take-up in a corporate Exchange environment.

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anonymous2 — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:28:23 GMT

it looks great! I've been trying to achieve this with 2007, but have nearly reached my limit setting multiple categories for each message in a conversation.

Maybe it's already there, but during a trial of Thunderbird there was a nifty add-in that changed the backgroud color of each message in the conversation. It was very helpful in identifying each message.

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Johannes — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:37:03 GMT

Hi Michael,

I like the improved user interface (finally the thread compressor has made it into the product). One thing is causing me to switch my phone to my home box where Office 2007 is installed: The Mobile Device Center does not recognize Outlook 2010! When do you plan to integrate that?

Cheers

Johannes

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Ian — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:29:32 GMT

I often change the subject line of the email, especially if the original email comes with the useless "Hi" type subject.

Would this still enable the messages to be held as part of a conversation?

If so, excellent!

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mgm — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:56:53 GMT

A common subject does not make a conversation. I regularly get messages with the same subject that are not related at all; "New software request", "Receipt for your subscription", "Test" and the worst case, blank subjects. They are all lumped together based on the subject even though they may be received months apart and have no relation to each other. Why would all messages with blank subjects be considered a conversation? Why not thread as per every other mail client on the Message-id, In-Reply-To and Reference headers?

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Anton — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:29:42 GMT

Im using outlook 2010 and one of my problem was I cannot default the sent items to my pst. Sent items is very vital for us to save it. Hopefully you guys can help me solve this problem. But the whole package is great. Thank you and regards.

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Phil — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:52:21 GMT

Is the ignore conversation feature only keyed off of the text in the Subject line? Or are there other factors that determine if an email is part of the ignored conversation? People in the To: and/or Cc:?

I like the feature and the ability to re-direct ignored conversations to another folder, other than Deleted Items.

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Danny — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:31:26 GMT

What happened to the "forms/user templates in file system" from 2007? My templates are just text so it really does not matter what formats them, I just can't find an option to use a template.