I’m thinking about buying a Microsoft Surface tablet but I’m left with a few questions regarding mail and especially in conjunction with Outlook as that is what I’m currently using.

• I saw that the Microsoft Surface tablet comes with Office pre-installed. Does this also include Outlook and if not, can I install Outlook on it later?
• If I were to use the Mail app, can I sync the Microsoft Surface tablet with Outlook on my Desktop?
• Can I also sync my Calendar, Contacts, Tasks (To-Do list) and Notes?

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I’m subscribed to various newsletters and I regularly receive a popup box when trying to open a newsletter that says “Contacting Server for Information” or simply “Contacting:” with a reference to a URL.

It seems to happen more frequently since Pinterest got more popular as the URL is also indicating that it is contacting http://assets.pinterest.com

While it is doing this, I cannot do anything in Outlook for 15-30 seconds or even a minute!

What is this and how can I make it stop?

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I really like the Outlook Social Connector and I use it in conjunction with your Social Media Updates Search Folder tip to quickly see what my contacts have been up to lately.

However, I noticed that this info isn't always fully up-to-date.

How often does the Outlook Social Connector check for new updates and is there a way to change this interval or force an update similar to pressing Send/Receive to check for new emails?

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I’ve created Stationery for Outlook with the font we also use for our regular letters, advertising and website. This also includes font settings such as size and spacing. In addition to that, there is a logo and a background color.

This Stationery works great when we are creating a new email, but upon replying or forwarding a message, the Stationery is not being applied.

Is there a way to also have Outlook use our Stationery when replying or forwarding?

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It seems that the Deleted Items folder and the Junk E-mail folder of Hotmail and Outlook.com accounts get emptied automatically after some time.

Unfortunately, a message got delivered to one of these folders and since I wasn’t able to check my mail for some time, I never got a chance to move it back to my Inbox.

Is there any way to recover these automatically deleted emails somehow?

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To have an overview of each other’s activities and availability, we were thinking about implementing a Team Calendar.

What would be the best way to approach this and how would we synch our personal Calendars with this Team Calendar?

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I'm working with both Outlook and Outlook Web App (OWA) and therefor want to configure the same default signature in both clients.

To do this, I opened the Signature Editor in Outlook and copied my signature text. Then I logged on to OWA and pasted the signature in the Signature Editor there. However, when pressing "Save Settings", I get the error:

The text you typed is too long. Please shorten it and try to save it again.

This made me wonder; Up to how many characters are allowed for the Signature in OWA?

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Funny enough, I do see my Notes folder in the Mail section in Outlook on the Web (OWA), but I can't seem to create a new one or modify any of my existing Notes.

How do I do this?

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I'm looking for a way to create a Search Folder for "actionable items". To me, actionable items are messages which are either unread or marked for follow up.

When trying to configure a Search Folder for this, it seems I can only create one for items which are both unread AND marked for follow up rather than OR.

Is it possible to create a Search Folder with such OR criteria for the flagged and read status of a message?

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I regularly receive messages which are “on behalf of” messages. When I try to create a rule for these messages, Outlook only seems to look at the first address and not at the “on behalf of” address.

However, this “on behalf of” address is usually more interesting to me as that is the actual responsible person for the content and not “only the messenger”.

Is there any way to make Outlook’s sorting rules to look at the second address when a message is sent “on behalf of”?

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