The Outlook Expert
November 2009                                                                                                                         Volume 3, Number 8
In This Issue · Favorite Outlook Newsletters · Microsoft’s Cloudy Forecast · Got Beta? · The Best Free Software · Oddly Specific Contact Us: sales@teamscope.com support@teamscope.com Sales and Support Line: (818)876-0776 Free 30-day trial downloads: TeamScope CRM for Outlook Allows your team to manage contacts, communications, sales opportunities and schedules completely within Outlook. TeamWork Workflow Centrally manage your team's workflow using your existing Microsoft Outlook/Exchange environment. DataLink for Outlook Transfer and synchronize data between Microsoft Outlook and databases. Updater for Outlook Perform mass updates on your Outlook data without programming. Free product downloads: Contacts Scrubber for Outlook Eliminate duplicate records from your Outlook Contacts.  FREE for Contact folders with 1000 items or less! Linker for Windows Create links between items in Outlook or Windows.  FREE! Additional downloads: TeamScope CRM Quick Start Guide TeamScope CRM Multi-user Installation Guide Reference Guide Help File TeamScope CRM Case Studies How a Major Financial Services Company Met Its CRM Needs for Over 3000 Users with TeamScope CRM How The Kelsey Group replaced an expensive and hard-to-use CRM system with TeamScope CRM How Needham & Co is supporting their Investment Banking business using TeamScope CRM Pollution Risk Services: Integrated Contact Management for Microsoft Outlook  TeamWork Case Study Arista Tubes: Improving the product development process through Outlook-integrated workflow TeamScope™ Partners	Favorite Outlook Newsletters Every week we receive several newsletters that we find particularly helpful.  In fact these newsletters often provide the source for the links published in The Outlook Expert, so this month we wanted to give credit where credit is due and encourage you to subscribe to these fine newsletters yourselves if you are interested. OutlookPower Magazine Lots of news and an extensive section on Outlook tips. Here is a sampling of links from recent issues of OutlookPower Magazine that we enjoyed: Where Outlook Hides its Secret Stuff Windows 7 and Outlook Roadmap for Outlook Personal Folders (,pst) Documentation Outlook Web Access Targeted in Zeus Trojan Phishing Attack Thought you were safer using Outlook Web Access?  Maybe not! How to use the Inbox Repair Tool to recover e-mail messages Searching within PDF documents While the 32-bit version of Adobe implements this feature, you have to go here to obtain the software for the 64-bit platform. If you also need to search in a file type that is not included in the 200 built-in types, then you can go here to find the appropriate iFilter. Dirty PCs The pictures of clogged PCs will make you want to grab your vacuum cleaner open your desktop. Twenty-three Years of Wacky Windows Launches Watching the young Steve Ballmer sell Windows 1.0 in a parody of the old Ronco Veg-a-matic commercial is pretty funny. Exchange Messaging Outlook This newsletter is focused exclusively on Outlook and Exchange issues and always provides links to the latest Microsoft knowledgebase articles. The link to subscribe is in the left hand column, and you can check out past issues here.  Below are a couple useful links from this newsletter: Common Mail Merge Questions In case you need to perform a larger scale mail merge from Outlook Contacts, TeamScope CRM includes a mail merge feature that we use to publish this newsletter. Moving Outlook Data to a New Computer Outlook Start menu shortcuts Securing Outlook Windows Secrets This newsletter is less Outlook-specific and often very technical, but has very useful articles like: Your Windows 7 Migration Problems Solved Microsoft’s Cloudy Forecast To get an idea about where Microsoft is headed there is no better place than the Microsoft Professional Developer’s Conference (PDC).  While flying to Los Angeles may be a bit expensive, viewing the recordings of every keynote and session is very affordable (click here for a list).  If you are not “excited” by lots of geek-speak, then you may want to skip these links: Day 1 Keynote Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie describes the “three screens and a cloud” architecture for future Microsoft-based applications. A New Approach to Exploring Information on the Web Microsoft Semantic Engine What if your computer knew what you meant instead of just what you wrote? Coming Together in the Cloud How NASA, Oxford University and Arizona State University used “crowd sourcing” and the cloud to map the surface of the Red Planet. Got Beta? The public beta release of Microsoft Office 2010 is now available here! The Best Free Software At least these are the best according to InfoWorld and Computer Shopper: The Best Free Open Source Software for Windows Check out PDFCreator, Media Player Classic, and Paint.net. The Best Free Software Oddly Specific During the first keynote presentation at the 2009 PDC mentioned above, Ray Ozzie noted that during the recent presidential elections the Microsoft Azure platform had two competing websites that were using the most resources.  One was CNN’s website covering the presidential election and the other was a web site where people post photos of cats and add humorous captions to them called I can has chezburger. While I will refrain from making any comment about how this reflects on the state of our democratic republic, I will note that the same team has a new web site that contains photos of oddly specific signs. Unfortunately I did not see my favorite sign on the site, so I have included it here: Since the text may be hard to read from the photo, I have copied it here: WARNING Due to the frequency of human-bear encounters, the B.C. Fish and Wildlife Branch is advising hikers, hunters, fisherman, and any persons that use the out of doors in a recreational or work related function to take extra precaution while in the field. We advise the outdoorsman to wear little bells noisy bells on clothing so as to give advance warning to any bears that might be close by so you don’t take them by surprise. We also advise anyone using the out-of-doors to carry “Pepper Spray” with him in case of an encounter with a bear. Outdoorsmen should also be on the watch for fresh bear activity, and be able to tell the difference between black bear feces and grizzly bear feces. Black bear feces is smaller and contains lots of berries and squirrel fur. Grizzly bear shit has bells in it and smells like pepper. Copyright (c) 2009 TeamScope Software, Inc. All Rights reserved. TeamScope and TeamScope CRM are trademarks of TeamScope Software, Inc. Outlook is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. All other brands are trademarks of their respective companies. You have opted to receive information from TeamScope™. To opt out of this list, click here. Please send opt out requests from the same e-mail address this message was sent to or mention that e-mail address in your opt out request. We can only exclude you based on that e-mail address. Thanks! TeamScope Software, Inc. 23679 Calabasas Road, Suite 140 Calabasas, CA  91302 818.876.0776 • 877.500.8326