Find or change the location of the Offline Address Book (OAB)

Find or change the location of the Offline Address Book (OAB)

The Offline Address Book of my Exchange account doesn’t update anymore in Outlook.

As I also have another Exchange account with a large Address Book, I don’t want to throw away the wrong one.

How can I find the correct location of the oab-files for the account that is having difficulties?

Also, can I change the location of where Outlook stores the oab-files?

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Creating an Outlook Desktop shortcut in Windows 10

Creating an Outlook Desktop shortcut in Windows 10

How do I create a desktop shortcut for Outlook in Windows 10?

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Let users decide their Microsoft 365 Apps (Office 365) Release Channel

Let users decide their Microsoft 365 Apps (Office 365) Release Channel

We have a group of users which prefers to be on the newest release of Office. However, our admins prefer to validate each release (especially with our custom solutions) before they roll it out to all users.

This is why we have chosen for the Semi-Annual Channel and have put this group of users in the Semi-Annual Preview Channel.

Since we rarely find anything major, we’d now like to offer these users with the option to switch to Monthly Enterprise, Current or even Insider releases.

However, they need to be able to switch back to Semi-Annual when they run into issues, preferably without the intervention of an administrator.

How can we achieve this?

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Send/Receive button doesn’t work for Exchange and Outlook.com accounts

Send/Receive button doesn't work for Exchange and Outlook.com accounts

When I press the Send/Receive button on the Quick Access Toolbar in Outlook, the Send/Receive dialog opens and collects emails for my POP3 and IMAP account but it doesn’t show my Outlook.com (Exchange) account.

How can I include the Exchange account as well?

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No dark Reading Pane in Outlook with Black Theme (Sun/Moon button)

No dark Reading Pane in Outlook with Black Theme (Sun/Moon button)

I’m a big fan of many applications offering a Dark Mode and I’ve also switched my Office theme to Black.

This works well but the Reading Pane in Outlook remains white and creates a very bright contrast with the Black theme.

I read that there should be a Sun/Moon option somewhere to toggle the Reading Pane dark too but I can’t seem to find it anywhere.

How do I turn the Reading Pane dark as well with the Black Theme enabled in Outlook?

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Starting Outlook as an Administrator on Windows 10

Starting Outlook as an Administrator on Windows 10

We need to perform an action in Outlook as an administrator. I logged on as the administrator of the computer, but I still can’t perform the action.

How can I start Outlook as an Administrator on Windows 10?

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Do not display “Top Results” when searching

Do not display “Top Results” when searching

When searching in Outlook, I see a group of “Top Results” before showing all other emails relevant to my search query.

I find this confusing since some of these emails are quite old and are now shown at the top and no longer chronologically.

Is there any way to disable these Top Results?

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Case sensitive searches in Outlook

Case sensitive searches in Outlook

I noticed that Outlook’s search feature is case insensitive and I’m looking for an option to change this.

The reason I ask is because I have several friends and relatives that have names or last names that are also common words.

For instance first names such as; Hope, Sky, May, Norm, or Guy. And maybe even more frequently for last names such as; Brown, Winter, Black, Baker, Cook, or Young.

So when I search for their names, I get a lot of emails returned which contain the word instead of the name. With a case sensitive search, I hope to be able to distinguish between the two.

Is there a way to perform case sensitive searches in Outlook?

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Show all Holidays as Busy or Out of Office on my Calendar

Show all Holidays as Busy or Out of Office on my Calendar

I’ve imported the holidays into my Calendar but unfortunately, these days are not marked as Busy or Out of Office but as Free.

This means that when someone tries to schedule a meeting with me on a (regional) holiday, I’ll be shown as available.

Is there a way to change the availability for holidays from Free to Busy?

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Add a “Chat with me in Teams” link to your email signature

Add a “Chat with me in Teams” link to your email signature

We’ve recently switched to Microsoft Teams and I’d really like to add a “Chat with me in Teams” link to my signature.

Is this possible?

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