How do I create a desktop shortcut for Outlook in Windows 11?

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Before I take the plunge and upgrade to Windows 10, I’d really like to know the following;

Which versions of Outlook are supported on Windows 10?

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Now that Windows 11 is available, I’m trying to figure out whether it is safe for me to upgrade to it.

Which versions of Outlook are supported on Windows 11?

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Today I received a Meeting Invitation that was received as a normal message but contained the following attachments;

• not supported calendar message.ics
• ATT00001.htm
• c120414.ics

The ATT00001.htm attachment contained the same textual content as the meeting message, but trying to open either ics-file resulted in the error;

The operation failed.

How did this meeting invitation end up broken and how can I fix it so I can accept it and add it to my Calendar?

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I’ve been looking for an option to add a Holiday Calendar to my Exchange mailbox in a similar way to the Birthday Calendar, which displays as a separate folder in Outlook. I haven't found out how to do it though.

Is there a way to add a separate Holiday Calendar to my Outlook Calendar as well?

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How can I move the Outlook pst-file from its default location to another more convenient location?

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When I drag and drop an Appointment or Meeting from my Calendar into a File Explorer window or another messages, this Calendar item is being saved as an msg-file.

While this might make sense for saving emails, I’d rather save my Calendar items as ics-files.

Can I somehow change the drag & drop format for Calendar items to ics-files?

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I know that when I permanently delete something from Outlook (so also from the Deleted Items folder), it will still not be deleted directly and my pst-file won't become smaller unless I run Compact Now. Until then or until it gets overwritten, the data is still stored within the pst-file and thus recoverable as you described here.

I'd prefer the deleted items to be really gone and free up space directly. For this I now manually run Compact Now a couple of times per week.

Can I configure Outlook that it will always automatically compact the pst-file whenever I delete something?

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I'm having an issue with Outlook and one of the suggestions told me to start Outlook from the Run command with the /safe switch and check something. However, I'm in a corporate environment and the Run command has been disabled for us.

Is there an other way to troubleshoot Outlook or get into Safe Mode or should I call my IT department?

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I'd like to add a watermark to my message which says "confidential" as an extra visual reminder.

Does Outlook hold such an option?

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