Differences between Outlook and Outlook Express

NOTE: If you install and run MSN Explorer version 6, your MSN POP3 e-mail account will be migrated to an MSN Hotmail account. If you have Outlook and Outlook Express configured for POP3, you will no longer receive your new MSN e-mail messages.

For additional information about what to do when Outlook does not receive MSN e-mail messages, click the following article number to see the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
268732 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/268732/EN-US/) OLEXP: Outlook Does Not Receive MSN E-mail Messages
To view a Microsoft Support WebCast about what to do if you cannot receive your MSN e-mail messages in Outlook or Outlook Express, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=325232

Outlook Express

Outlook Express is the e-mail client that is included with Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x, the Microsoft Windows 98 operating system, the Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Me) operating system, the Microsoft Windows 2000 operating systems, and Microsoft Office 98 for the Macintosh. Outlook Express is designed for home users who gain access to their e-mail messages by dialing in to an Internet service provider (ISP).

Built on open Internet standards, Outlook Express is designed for use with any Internet standard system, for example, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3), and Internet Mail Access Protocol (IMAP). It provides full support for today's most important e-mail, news, and directory standards such as Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension Hypertext Markup Language (MHTML), Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME), and Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP). Full support ensures that you can take advantage of new technologies as well as seamlessly send and receive e-mail.

New migration tools that automatically import your existing mail settings, address book entries, and e-mail messages from Eudora, Netscape, Microsoft Exchange Server, the Windows Inbox, and Outlook make it easy for you to quickly take advantage of all that Outlook Express has to offer. The ability to receive mail from multiple e-mail accounts, as well as the ability to create Inbox rules, helps you manage and organize your e-mail.

In addition, full support for HTML mail enables you to personalize your messages with custom backgrounds and graphics. This makes it easy to create unique, visually powerful messages.

For special occasions, such as birthdays or holidays, Outlook Express includes stationery designed by Greetings Workshop and Hallmark.

Outlook

Outlook is Microsoft's premier messaging and collaboration client. It is a stand-alone application that is integrated into Microsoft Office and Exchange Server. Outlook also provides performance and integration with Internet Explorer 5.5. Complete integration of e-mail, calendaring, and contact management, makes Outlook the perfect client for many business users.

Outlook helps you find and organize information so that you can work seamlessly with Office applications. This helps you communicate and share information more effectively.

Powerful Inbox rules enable you to filter and organize e-mail messages. With Outlook, you can integrate and manage e-mail from multiple e-mail accounts, personal and group calendars, contacts, and tasks.

When you use Outlook with Exchange Server, you can use workgroup information sharing and workflow communications, group scheduling, public folders, forms, and enhanced Internet connectivity.

Outlook is designed for use with the Internet (SMTP, POP3, and IMAP4), Exchange Server, or any other standards-based communication system that supports Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI), including voice mail. Outlook is based on Internet standards and supports today's most important e-mail, news, and directory standards, including LDAP, MHTML, NNTP, MIME, and S/MIME, vCalendar, vCard, iCalendar, and full support for HTML mail.

Outlook also offers the same import tools that are offered with Outlook Express. This enables easy migration from other e-mail clients, and offers further migration from Microsoft Mail, Microsoft Schedule+ 1.0, Microsoft Schedule+ 7.0, Lotus Organizer, NetManage ECCO, Starfish SideKick, Symantec ACT, as well as synchronization with leading Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), such as the 3Com Palm Pilot.

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Migrate Lotus Notes Emails to Outlook

Lotus Notes is the most popular client-server, collaborative application
developed and sold by IBM Software Group. IBM defines the software as an “integrated desktop client” option for accessing business emails, calendars, to-do lists, business contacts.

There are various email systems that maintain different formats to store emails. Thus switching from one email system to another becomes frustrating. So, migrating Lotus Notes emails to Outlook is also a serious issue. Users need Lotus Notes Migration tool for the following reasons:

• Lotus Notes involves high installation costs annually, that many organizations fails to afford every year.
• Users have to switch from Lotus Notes to Outlook because of change of job or profession.

Now migrating or export Lotus Notes to MS Outlook becomes easier with SysTools Export Notes. SysTools Export Notes is a simple yet powerful Lotus Notes Conversion utility to convert Lotus Notes emails, calendar, journals, to do lists, contacts or address book to MS Outlook.

Export Notes software is a feature-rich Lotus Notes Conversion software to migrate Lotus Notes emails to Outlook. Most advantageous features of Lotus Notes Conversion Tool are as follows:

1. Simple User Interface: Software provides easy & simple user interface that encourage novice to use the software confidently.
2. Migrate Lotus Notes to MS Outlook: SysTools Export Notes quickly converts Lotus Notes emails, journals, and calendar, to do list to MS Outlook PST files.
3. Software supports to convert Lotus Notes emails with attachment, and keeping all Meta information intact.
4. SysTools Export Notes Software successfully runs with Windows 2000, XP, and Vista.
5. Software supports Lotus Notes Address Book Conversion even if there are errors like: “You are not authorized to perform that operation: names.nsf”.

Users can download SysTools Export Notes software from the following link:
http://www.exportnotes.com/emails
Downloading SysTools Export Notes, users can eventually Migrate Lotus Notes Emails to Outlook or Export Lotus Notes to Outlook quickly.

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"Installation unsuccessful" error message when you try to install Office XP SP3 from the Office Update Web site

SUMMARY
If you receive the "Installation unsuccessful" error message when you try to update Microsoft Office XP to Office XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) from the Microsoft Office Update Web site, your Office installation may have been installed from an administrative installation point. To resolve this problem, either install the Office XP SP3 full-file package, or contact your network administrator to update your administrative installation point.

SYMPTOMS
When you try to install Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) from the Office Update Web site, you may receive the following error message:
Installation unsuccessful

CAUSE
This problem may occur when you try to use the Office XP SP3 client (binary) update on a computer that has Microsoft Office XP installed from an administrative installation point.

RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, use one of the following methods

Method 1: Download and install the Office XP SP3 full-file package
The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:

Download the English version of the Office XP Service Pack 3 full-file package now.

For additional information about how to download Microsoft Support files, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

119591 How to Obtain Microsoft Support Files from Online Services

Microsoft scanned this file for viruses. Microsoft used the most current virus-detection software that was available on the date that the file was posted. The file is stored on security-enhanced servers that help to prevent any unauthorized changes to the file.
Note To download and install a localized version of Office XP SP3, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=85AF7BFD-6F69-4289-8BD1-EB966BCDFB5E
To download and install Office XP SP3, follow these steps:
1. Click the Download the English version of the Office XP Service Pack 3 full-file package now link that is mentioned earlier.
2. In the File Download dialog box, click Open.

Note The Office XP SP3 full-file package is 57.5 megabytes (MB) and may take a long time to download depending on your Internet connection speed.
3. If you are prompted to install the update, click Yes.
4. Click Yes to accept the license agreement.
5. When you receive a message that indicates that the installation was successful, click OK.
Note After you install the update, you cannot remove it. To revert to an installation before the update was installed, you must remove Office XP, and then install it again from the original CD-ROM.

MORE INFORMATION
For additional information about Office XP SP3, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
832671 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832671/) Description of Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 3

APPLIES TO
• Microsoft Office XP, All Editions Service Pack 3 (SP-3)

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Outlook Backup - Simple Solution For Home Users

A lot of home users look for a backup solution because they just need to back up one thing - Outlook mail. If you are new to backup and don't know what data recovery is all about, but still need to protect your Outlook data, you may start searching web forums where they discuss data backup and recovery, which will most likely cause you even more confusion up to a point where you actually want to give up the whole idea of finding a simple Outlook backup plan.
In fact, you don't have to know much about backup to protect your Outlook mail from loss and theft. The reason you become more confused, the more you search is that at professional backup forums, they use a lot of special backup terminology and professional jargon, which makes it all the harder for you to understand and, most importantly, decide which backup program to buy.
To make your search of Outlook backup solution more effective, answer just one question: exactly what do I want to copy and how often? If you just need to copy your Outlook data every once in a while, you can easily find inexpensive backup software with the option of Outlook backup, which allows you to back up and recover Outlook messages, contacts, settings, the address book, and so on, and copy them to a CD or DVD on a schedule, for example once a week.
The Outlook backup feature is a really basic functionality for any backup program. So if you just know that a particular solution can do Outlook backup, it is not enough information to say whether it is a professional solution or not. Both simple and advanced backup programs may feature Outlook backup, so basically what you need to do is a little price comparison survey.
What's next? Next thing to do is to check what other options this particular backup program has to offer with regard to Outlook backup. For example, does it allow you to back up messages and contacts separately, or does it backup everything in bulk? Can it compress and/or encrypt Outlook data?
Another important issue to consider is where you are going to store your backups. If the Outlook backup software allows recording Outlook data to DVD, it may raise its cost a little bit; however the option of recording data to CD is usually available in most of the low-price solutions.

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How to Create the PCF and Run PREP

The PCF (Profiler Command File) provides greater control to select the parts of the executable program to profile. The PCF is optional and is not necessary to collect statistics about all functions of the application.

With the following PCF, the profiler collects statistics only for the main window procedure and for the About dialog box procedure in GENERIC. For more information on PCFs, see chapter 4 of the Source Profiler "User's Guide." Place the following text into the GENERIC.PCF file:
FPROFILE TIME
PROGRAM GENERIC.EXE DELETE
OBJECT GENERIC.OBJ
FUNCTION MainWndProc ADD # Note: function names are case sensitive
FUNCTION About ADD
To use this file, perform the following three steps:
1. Place the GENERIC.PCF file into the same directory as the source code for the GENERIC sample.
2. Build the GENERIC sample with debugging information (specify the /Zi compiler option switch and the /CO linker option switch).
3. Use the following command line to run the PREP utility:

PREP /P GENERIC.EXE /OT GENERIC.PBT /OI GENERIC.PBI GENERIC.PCF


For more information about the PREP utility, see Appendix A of the Source Profiler "User's Guide."

You can place the PREP command into the makefile that builds profiling versions of your application. Run the PREP utility after building the executable file.

Version 1.2 of the Microsoft Source Profiles includes two executable files: PROFILE.EXE and PROFILEW.EXE. PROFILEW.EXE is a Microsoft Windows-hosted source profile utility that can run from the command line or from an icon in the Microsoft Windows operating system. The names of batch files used to profile a Windows-based application end with the letter "W." Run these batch files from the MS-DOS prompt because each one starts Windows. You also can profile a Windows-based application in Windows.

APPLIES TO

•	Microsoft Source Profiler 1.0
•	Microsoft Source Profiler 1.2

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