The To-Do Bar and Daily Task List provide a quick way for you to view and manage your "To-Do" items.

The OCT settings for the To-Do Bar and Daily Task list are found in the Tools | Options - Preferences - Task Options node of the features tree.

The following table summarizes the configurable settings for the To-Do Bar and the Daily Task List.

Office Outlook 2007 uses a new Search engine in conjunction with Windows Desktop Search (WDS). Some of the Search features that can be customized include:

• Hit highlighting

• Highlighting color

• Wordwheeling

The settings for the Search features are found in the Tools | Options - Preferences - Search Options node of the features tree.

The following table summarizes the configurable settings for Search.

By default, Office Outlook 2007 allows you to preview many e-mail attachments within the message or the reading pane.

There is one setting for this feature, found under the Tools | Options - Preferences - E-mail Options node of the OCT features tree.

This setting directly controls the Turn off Attachment Preview check box in the Trust Center.

If you enable the Do not allow attachment previewing in Outlook setting in the OCT, you will not be able to preview attachments in Office Outlook 2007. You will have to double-click the attachments to open them directly within the parent application.

By default, Office Outlook 2007 postmarks messages that might be considered junk e-mail by a client computer receiving the message. By postmarking a message, the receiving client computer can have a higher degree of certainty that the message is not a junk e-mail message.

To control this setting by using the OCT, configure the Do not allow e-mail postmark functionality setting under the Tools | Options - Preferences - E-mail Options - Advanced E-mail Options node of the OCT features tree.

This setting directly controls the When sending e-mail, Postmark the message option in the Junk E-mail Options dialog box.

Office Outlook 2007 includes a great new feature where you can publish any calendar to either the Microsoft Office Online Sharing Service or any Web server that supports WebDAV. This feature is available by using the context menu for a calendar folder and by selecting the Publish My Calendar link in the calendar view.

The Publish Calendar to Microsoft Office Online dialog box allows you to configure how much data is published and who can access the data.

If you click the Advanced button, you can configure how often the data is published.

If you want to preconfigure (or even disable) this feature, use the settings under the Tools | Options - Preferences - Calendar Options - Microsoft Office Online Sharing Service node of the OCT features tree.

The following table summarizes the configurable settings for the calendar publishing features.

The following table outlines the default settings, based on the calendar type, for the calendar publishing options.

Note:
You only have one default Calendar folder. It is the Calendar folder included with your primary e-mail delivery location. Any other "calendar" type folder you add to your mailbox or .pst file is considered a non-default calendar.

With the addition of support for Unicode characters in domain names, you can register the domain taílspintoys.com (Cyrillic character í in taíl), and send e-mail messages from addresses in that domain. If the correct DNS records are published, addresses from this domain pass SenderID checks, and a recipient can be tricked into thinking that the received mail was legitimately sent from tailspintoys.com (no Cyrillic character í).

Office Outlook 2007 builds on the Junk E-mail filter capabilities from earlier Outlook versions by adding detection for IDN spoofing.

To configure this setting in the OCT, double-click Disable International Domain Names (IDN) in Outlook under the Tools | Options - Mail Format - International Options node of the OCT features tree.

The IDN Spoofing detection feature is enabled by default and is controlled in the Junk E-mail Options dialog box (Tools | Options - Junk E-mail Options - Warn me about suspicious domain names in e-mail addresses.).

Note:
If you do not have Windows Internet Explorer 7 installed, then the Warn me about suspicious domain names in e-mail addresses (recommended) check box is disabled and dimmed. This feature depends on the existence of Normalize.dll, which is installed by Internet Explorer 7 (and Windows Vista).

When you highlight text in an e-mail message in Office Outlook 2007, a mini toolbar automatically displays above the text with basic formatting options.

This setting is on by default, but it can be controlled by using the Show Mini Toolbar on selection setting under the Tools | Options - Other node of the OCT features tree.

When you configure this setting in the OCT, you are directly controlling the Show Mini Toolbar on selection check box in the Popular section of the Editor Options dialog box in Office Outlook 2007 (Tools | Options - Mail Format tab - Editor Options).

In earlier versions of Outlook, you cannot globally deploy a setting that disables the reading pane for all folders. This is primarily because the reading pane setting is stored in the view information on a per-folder basis. However, Office Outlook 2007 includes a new setting that allows you to turn off the reading pane on all folders.

The reading pane is on by default, but it can be controlled by using the Do not display the reading pane setting under the Tools | Options - Other node of the OCT features tree.

With this setting enabled, the reading pane is not displayed for any folder, even folders for which the reading pane was previously enabled. If you want to make sure users cannot manually re-enable the reading pane, consider setting this option by using Group Policy instead of the OCT. For more information about Group Policy, see Enforce settings by using Group Policy in the 2007 Office system.

Until the 2007 Office system, you could not disable the functionality in the Properties dialog box for a folder in Outlook.

In some situations, you might want to prevent users from accessing the controls on the Permissions tab. To do this in Office Outlook 2007, configure the Do not allow users to change permissions on folders setting under the Tools | Account Settings - Exchange node of the OCT features tree.

If you enable this option in the OCT, you cannot make any changes to the permissions (default or explicitly given to someone else) on the Permissions tab for any folder within Office Outlook 2007.

Note:

With this option enabled, you can still send a sharing message for a folder to someone else. In this scenario, that recipient's name is added to the Permissions tab of the folder. If this occurs, the only way to remove that user's name from the Permissions tab is to change the DisableEditPermissions value to zero (0). This effectively disables the registry data controlling this feature and allows modifications on the Permissions tab. Key: HCKU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Options\Folders DWORD: DisableEditPermissions Values: 1 = Permissions tab settings are disabled 0 = Permissions tab settings are enabled If you have configured this setting by using Group Policy, you might have to disable the policy to get access to the Permissions tab. Only administrators can modify registry data under the \Policies hive.

If you are using Office Outlook 2007 with a Cached Mode profile, Outlook 2007 automatically synchronizes shared (non e-mail) folders from other user's mailboxes. For example, if you open someone's Calendar folder, this data is synchronized to your Cached Mode .ost file, allowing you to view this data while you work offline.

This setting is on by default and is controlled by the Download shared folders (excludes mail folders) check box.

To access this setting, perform the following steps:

1. On the Tools menu, click Account Settings.

2. Select your Exchange account, and then click Change.

3. In the Change E-mail Account dialog box, click More Settings.

4. In the Microsoft Exchange dialog box, click the Advanced tab.

In the OCT, you can configure how long this shared data is cached in your .ost file by using the Synchronizing data in shared folders setting under the Tools | Account Settings - Exchange node.

This setting allows you to configure the number of days that must elapse without accessing the shared data before Office Outlook 2007 stops synchronizing the data into your .ost file. This prevents your .ost file from growing larger with data that you no longer require.

To completely disable the caching of any shared data in your .ost file, configure the Download shared non-mail folders option under the Tools | Account Settings - Cached Exchange Mode node in the OCT.

Because this setting enables the downloading of shared non-mail folder data, you will want to configure it as "Disabled" in the OCT to prevent the downloading of share data.

Note:
If you disable the Download shared non-mail folders option in the OCT, only new Office Outlook 2007 profiles are affected. If you want to disable this feature on existing Office Outlook 2007 profiles, configure this same option in the Group Policy Editor.

Office Outlook 2007 includes the ability to synchronize RSS feed data directly into your mailbox or .pst file. To quickly add an RSS feed to Office Outlook 2007, select the RSS Feeds folder, and then click one of the default RSS feeds found on the home page for the RSS Feeds folder.

Once you have added an RSS feed, you can configure it by using the RSS Feeds tab in the Account Settings dialog box in Office Outlook 2007 (Tools | Account Settings - RSS Feeds).

As you can see, there are many settings that can be configured for RSS feeds.

If you want to customize these settings in the OCT, use the settings under the Tools | Account Settings - RSS Feeds node in the feature tree.

The following table describes each of these OCT settings related to RSS.

Office Outlook 2007 adds the new purge option Purge items when switching folders while online. This option can be configured by using the More Settings button when creating a new IMAP account or modifying an existing one.

In the Internet E-mail Settings dialog box, on the General tab, you find the Purge items when switching folders while online check box. As the description text that appears below it states, checking this option results in items marked for deletion being automatically deleted when you navigate to any other folder in Office Outlook 2007 while working online. This option is off by default and is set per IMAP account.

To administer this setting, configure the Turn on purge when switching folders option under the Tools | Account Settings - IMAP node in the OCT.

Office Outlook 2007 makes it very easy to add subscriptions to Internet-based calendars. One way to add an Internet calendar through Internet Explorer is by clicking the WebCal hyperlink on a Web page.

If you point to the WebCal hyperlink without actually clicking it, you can see the URL for the link uses the webcal:// protocol. Once you have added the Internet calendar subscription, the data is synchronized to a folder in the Internet calendars' .pst file (seen in the Folders List module of the navigation pane).

As with RSS feeds, Internet calendar subscriptions are managed through the Account Settings dialog box. Double-click any entry on the Internet Calendars tab to display the current configuration settings for the subscription.

As you can see, there are many settings that can be configured for an Internet calendar.

If you want to customize these settings in the OCT, use the settings under the Tools | Account Settings - Internet Calendar Subscriptions node in the feature tree.

The following table summarizes the OCT settings that you can configure for Internet calendars.

Office Outlook 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 provide many new features over the integration first available with Outlook 2003 andWindows SharePoint Services 2.0. This includes Read and Write capabilities for SharePoint list data in Office Outlook 2007, and synchronization with additional list types like Tasks and Document Libraries.

As with RSS feeds and Internet calendar subscriptions, SharePoint list subscriptions are managed through the Account Settings dialog box. Double-click any entry on the SharePoint Lists tab to display the current configuration settings for the subscription.

As you can see, there are several settings that can be configured for a SharePoint list that is being synchronized with Office Outlook 2007.

If you want to customize these settings in the OCT, use the settings under the Tools | Account Settings - SharePoint node in the feature tree.

The following table summarizes the OCT settings that you can configure for SharePoint lists being synchronized with Office Outlook 2007.

Feature	Setting Details
Modify number of changed items included in SharePoint client page download	Use this setting to configure the page size that an Office Outlook 2007 client downloads from a server running Windows SharePoint Services in a single Web service request. The page size is the maximum number of new items and changed items downloaded in one page. If servers running Windows SharePoint Services have reduced capacity or are overwhelmed by the size of requests coming from Office Outlook 2007 clients, you can change this setting to specify a different page size to download in a single Web service request. You should test changes in this setting to determine the impact in your specific environment. A page size below 15 or above 1,000 is not recommended.
Default SharePoint lists	Use this setting to deploy SharePoint lists so users have one or more lists already configured the first time they start Office Outlook 2007.
Define custom label for SharePoint store	Replace the "SharePoint" label with the label you specify in this setting. The preceding screen shot shows the "SharePoint" label replaced by the "WSS-label" label in the Navigation Pane and the Account Settings dialog box.
Do not allow SharePoint-Outlook integration	Use this setting to completely disable this feature in Office Outlook 2007.
Override published sync interval	By default, a SharePoint list does not have a limit on the interval with which you can download content from the server. However, your SharePoint administrator can enact a limit through server configuration changes. If you want to override this limit and have the Update Limit check box cleared for new SharePoint lists added to Office Outlook 2007, configure this setting in the OCT.
SharePoint folder synch interval	Configure this setting to set the interval (in minutes) in which Office Outlook 2007 automatically updates SharePoint folders.
Do not roam users' SharePoint lists	By default, if you use multiple Office Outlook 2007 clients against the same Exchange mailbox, your SharePoint list configuration settings roam with you. Therefore, when you log on to another client, the SharePoint lists .pst file will be added (if it does not already exist) and the SharePoint list data is synchronized down from the server running Windows SharePoint Services. There is a per-subscription option in the Sharepoint List Options dialog box to manually configure this functionality. If you select the Don't display this list on other computers I use check box on a list, it is not roamed with you to another client. Enable this setting in the OCT to enable the Don't display this list on other computers I use check box on new lists added to Office Outlook 2007.
Log SharePoint sync requests and responses	By default, logging synchronization requests and responses between Office Outlook 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services is disabled. By enabling this setting, Office Outlook 2007 logs most synchronization requests and responses to a log file stored in the TEMP directory of the user. One log file is created per day (up to seven total), using the naming convention: 0-wss-sync-log.HTM, 1-wss-sync-log.HTM, and so on.

Form regions are a new custom form technology that — from a very high level — functions much like the custom form feature that has been in Outlook since Outlook 97. However, form regions offer many benefits that should compel form developers to use the new technology.

The term form region refers to a new way to design and develop a custom user interface that can be integrated into Office Outlook 2007 forms. While there are many conceptual similarities to the old way of designing Office Outlook 2007 custom forms, form regions introduce a new way to design, code, and distribute custom forms. Therefore, form regions are considered a new feature and not an extension of traditional Office Outlook 2007 custom form functionality.

The new form region architecture allows form developers to create four main types of form regions:

• Adjoining Form Region

• Separate Form Region

• Replacement Form Region

• Replace-All Form Region

If you want to administer settings for form regions, expand the OCT tree down to Form Regions.

The following table summarizes the different settings that you can configure for form regions.

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