Exchange Messaging Outlook: Calendar Colors

You're receiving this message because you signed up for [Exchange Messaging Outlook](. If this email is not displaying correctly [View in your browser](. Please add emo@slipstick.com to your safe senders list. If you no longer wish to receive EMO, [Unsubscribe here](. Exchange Messaging Outlook A weekly newsletter about Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Outlook February 15 2018 Volume 23 Issue 5 Advertisement Sync your data with all of your devices. Sync Outlook calendar, contacts, and tasks with iPad, iPhone, Galaxy S4, Note 3, Blackberry Z10, Lumia. Sync your Gmail Calendar, Tasks, and Contacts with Outlook. Sync Mac with Android, iPhone, and Windows Phone. All popular devices supported. [Your Data. Your Device. CompanionLink]( [] Calendars aren’t printing in color People who print calendars discovered that Outlook is no longer printing colors by default. This is caused by a change in the print options in the recent update. The default Print Option is to use gray shading. This is not new – Print using gray shading has been the default since at least Outlook 2007. But in older versions and builds, gray shading applied to header areas, not category colors. The recent update changed this behavior and category colors are not printed in color when 'print using gray shading' is enabled. Oddly, some colors do print with gray shading enabled, including the background colors for events spanning more than one day and events marked busy will have a purple icon on the Agenda style. To print category colors, you need to deselect Print using gray shading. - In File, Print, select Print Options - Select Page Setup - Untick Print using gray shading. - Close the dialogs and print. You'll need to change this setting for each calendar style you use. If you delete the OutlPrnt file to fix printing problems, the calendar will be set to print in gray scale again. More information: [Print Outlook Calendars in Color]( [] Replicate GTD: Create a task after sending a message In a discussion about the now-discontinued Getting Things Done Outlook addin in [Outlook Forums](, John had this comment: Another function of GTDOA that I will really miss is being able to simultaneously reply to an email message, create a task or appointment, and have that email reply linked to the task or appointment. There is an obvious work-around for this - 1. send my email message, 2. go to my send directory and open it, 3. press "forward" or "reply" 4. CTRL+A to "copy all" of this email 5. close out 6. start a task/appoint and paste into it. *Whew* that is a lot of work! I question if there is an easy way to automate this process. If you can use a macro, you can automate it. I have a macro that comes close at [Automatically create a task when sending a message](, but it doesn't add a link to the message. It adds the recipient addresses and the message body to the task, but HTML formatted messages will be copied to the task as text. With just a few changes, we can copy the sent message body to the task body as formatted text, including the reply header, and insert a link to the original message. If you prefer to create appointments instead of tasks, use find and replace Task with Appointment. Get the code from [Replicate GTD: Create a task after sending a message]( [] Outlook’s Large Summary Cards A new feature was added to Outlook.com and Office 365 mailboxes a couple of years ago: The server picks up information from email confirmations for flights, hotel, and package delivery services etc and creates a calendar appointment for the event. The email confirmation displays a large summary card at the top. A very large summary card. Large enough that it blocks much of the actual email for many users. In Outlook for Windows, the summary card pane can be minimized by clicking the V on the lower right edge of the card but the pane is not resizable on the Mac version (the pane is a pain!). If you don’t want these types of events added to your calendar, you can disable it in Outlook on the web, in Calendar options, under Events from email. This setting doesn’t appear to affect summary cards. Outlook for Mac suggestion at uservoice: [Please remove the summary window on emails or give the option to close it so I can read my emails (example: flight information)]( []New & Updated Exchange KB Articles Can't send an email message when Full Access permission is granted to a shared mailbox in Exchange Server [( Exchange Server guidance to protect against speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities [( Hybrid free/busy lookups fail between Exchange Server 2016 CU8 and O365 [( Phone number instead of contact name is displayed for an Active Directory contact in Skype for Business 2016 [( Update Rollup 19 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3 [( vNext object is not present or updated in Azure AD Connect for Office 365 dedicated/ITAR (vNext) [( You can't access OWA or ECP after you install Exchange Server 2016 CU6 [( []New & Updated Office 365 KB Articles "The name on the security certificate is invalid or does not match the name of the site" error in Outlook in a dedicated or ITAR Office 365 environment [( A user’s Office 365 email address unexpectedly contains an underscore character after directory synchronization [( A user cannot access a mailbox that's provisioned in Office 365 dedicated/ITAR (vNext) [( Emails sent from on-premises to Exchange Online appears to be external after running HCW [( "Your encrypted message couldn't be opened" error when external users try to open encrypted messages [( Validation errors for a mailbox archive GUID for Office 365 dedicated/ITAR (vNext) users [( February 6, 2018, update for Office 2016 (KB4011664) [( February 2018 Office Update Release [( How to troubleshoot MMSSPP synchronization error messages ... [( Scanning your Outlook configuration by using the Microsoft Support and Recovery Assistant (SaRA) for Office 365 [( Hybrid free/busy lookups fail between Exchange Server 2016 CU8 and O365 [( Mailbox not provisioned in Azure AD Connect for Office 365 dedicated/ITAR (vNext) [( "550 5.2.3 RESOLVER.RST.RecipSizeLimit; message too large for this recipient" error when sending message in Office 365 dedicated/ITAR [( Troubleshooting calendar and mail issues in Outlook for Office 365 Dedicated/ITAR [( Troubleshooting Office 365 issues when signing in to Microsoft Skype for Business [( Users receive NDR 5.2.0 when they send meeting invites in Office 365 dedicated/ITAR [( vNext object is not present or updated in Azure AD Connect for Office 365 dedicated/ITAR (vNext) [( []New & Updated Outlook KB Articles How to disable the background save feature in Outlook [( January 22, 2018, update for Outlook 2016 (KB4011123) [( Only a subset of items are synchronized in shared mailboxes or public folders in Outlook 2016 [( Outlook 2016 for Mac crashes intermittently after the Cisco WebEx Productivity Tools plug-in is installed [( This issue is sponsored by [CompanionLink]( Today's Highlights: [Calendars aren’t printing in color](#1) [Replicate GTD: Create a task after sending a message](#2) [Outlook’s Large Summary Cards](#3) Regular features: [New Exchange KB Articles](#ex) [New Office 365 KB Articles](#365) [New Outlook KB Articles](#ol) [New Utilities](#new) [Updated Utilities](#up) [Other Resources](#other) []New Utilities [Parseur]( Easy-to-use email parser to automatically extract data from your emails. Send the data to Google Sheets, Microsoft Excel, or other applications. []Updated Utilities [Apps4Pro Planner Outlook Web Add-in]( Apps4.Pro Planner Outlook Web acts as a central hub to manage all your tasks from different task management systems such as Microsoft Planner, SharePoint, Outlook Tasks and extends Apps4.Pro Planner capabilities to Web, OWA, Mac and Mobile. [ReliefJet Essentials for Outlook]( ReliefJet Essentials for Outlook 4.8.1 includes three new utilities for converting MSG, EML and MBOX files to PST data files. Many utilities provide macro picker making it easier to use the power of macros. New utility "Export Outlook MSG to PST" converts Outlook messages, contacts, appointments, meetings, tasks and other Outlook items from MSG to PST data files. New utilities "Convert EML/EMLX to PST for Outlook", Convert Emails from MBOX to PST Format" converts email database files from MBOX to PST for Outlook. Supports headers, Gmail labels and more. [VBOffice Reporter]( VBOffice Reporter is an easy to use tool for data analysis and reporting in Outlook. A single click allows you to see the number of hours planned for meetings the next month, expenses for a specific project in the last month, and many things more. Features include the ability to create reports for all tasks, calendar, and journal items. Create a report with a single click and then sent via e-mail or open it in Excel. Trial available. Supports Outlook 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016. [VBOffice SAM]( SAM automatically sets the sender, signature, and folder for sent items based on several criteria. Use SAM to assign a sending account or SendOnBehalf address and signature to contacts, folders, or categories. Works with Outlook 2007, 2010 and Outlook 2013, 2016. []Other Resources [Filter the To-Do list to show only Tasks]( If you don't like that the To-Do folder shows flagged messages and would like to delete the To-Do list or set the Tasks folder to open by default, you can create a custom view that hides the flagged messages. [Outlook's Signature button doesn't work]( After installing Outlook 2016's January 2018 update, some users are unable to edit signatures. Microsoft has identified the cause as having the Windows app store version installed as well as a "normal" version. [Syncing Outlook with an Android smartphone]( How to sync Outlook Calendar and Contacts with an Android smartphone or tablet. [Print Outlook Calendars in Color]( When printing to any printer device results in blank and white calendars, the problem may be because the Print Options are set to print in gray scale. [Replicate GTD: Create a task after sending a message]( Replicate the Getting Things Done Outlook Addin function to simultaneously reply to an email message, create a task or appointment, and have that email reply linked to the task or appointment. [Search is Broken (again) (Fixed)]( Instant Search fails using the All Mailbox search, returning no results. If you enable Show as Conversations, All Mailbox search works once again. [The Windows Store Outlook App]( The Microsoft App Store version of Office changes a few things in Outlook. This version is available to Windows 10S users and is currently supplied as the pre-installed version many laptops. Product Submissions Would you like to see your new or recently updated Exchange or Outlook utility listed in EMO and on slipstick.com? Submit the product name, URL and a brief description at [Submissions at slipstick](. Interested in advertising your product in Exchange Messaging Outlook or on slipstick.com? 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