Here is my sad story…

1. Exchange goes corrupt…. be frightened of running out of space with virtualization :-)
2. We go back to a backup a 3-4 days old :-(
3. Outlook (the ‘smart’ client) connects…. it sees that the server doesnt have the emails that it has… so it proceeds to quickly and violently delete hundreds of emails, from the last few days.
4. Everybody is not happy

Why doesn’t Outlook not work better? It could say.

Since you last connected, 356 emails have been deleted from ‘Inbox’ on the server.
Do you want these emails to be deleted on your PC? [DELETE]
Do you want to put your emails onto the server? [UPLOAD]

Is there a downside to this? I can’t think of anything….

(with this feature, outlook would not just be a copy, it could be included into disaster recovery plans)

I don’t think subjects should be changed today, because those use the threading in Outlook, the thread is now ruined. However people do, so I wish Outlook gave the functionality to change a subject and then use “Tools | Refresh Conversation ID” to change the Conversation ID.
PS: Better still just refresh the Conversation ID after you change a subject

Figure: Need an option “Tools | Refresh Conversation ID” for use after you change a subject

I am going to flash my TyTnII.

All my data is synced Except my SMSes Grrrrrrr.

All unhandled errors (aka crashes) will take your email…

And inform you when a hot fix/service pack resolves that issue

(I choose Outlook as the first application to implement this, as that is what I get the most crashes)

Figure: All crashes will take your email

If I get more than one contacts with the same email address when checking the names, I’d like to know which is in my Local Contacts and which in the Exchange User List. So please add a column to identify this.

For instance, if I know the one in my Local Contacts is the latest and the first one is identified as Local Contacts, I can select it easily without checking details of these two.

Figure: No column identifies where contacts are from

It’s more efficient to have a ‘Find’ option in the right click menu of the ‘Contacts’ folder. With it we can look for certain contacts easily.

Figure: ‘Find’ option is needed

When you get an appointment in your inbox, they often have a Reminders in them, you can’t see them, but they are there. The main issue is that I don’t want the reminder going off later.

• Can you make the reminder visible
• Can you add a button “Accept without reminder”
• Can you add a button “Accept and edit the reminder”

Figure: The Appointment’s reminder information, needs to be visible and changable