Outlook 2007

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This page will list some of the new features in Outlook 2007. Correction and omissions would be appreciated.

So what is new in Outlook 2007?

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General

Microsoft has several resources for Outlook 2007.There is a User Guide.

The new UI

Outlook 2007, like Access 2007, Excel 2007, PowerPoint 2007 and Word 2007 has a new UI (User Interface). A new, results-oriented interface presents tools when you need them, in a clear and organized fashion. Live visual previews, predefined style galleries, table formats, and other content help you get more out of Office Outlook 2007 capabilities.

Instant Search

With integrated Instant Search, you can locate all the information you’re looking for from within the Outlook 2007 interface. Not only can you search by keyword through your information, but Outlook 2007 Instant Search also looks for those keywords within your e-mail attachments. For more directed search results, the Instant Search pane provides helpful criteria to narrow your entry.

Attachment Preview

Preview attachments in one click with Attachment Preview. Create and subscribe to Internet calendars. Internet calendars provide a way to view and remain up-to-date on industry events or personal interest calendars and schedules. You can add a static Internet calendar, subscribe to a dynamic Internet calendar in Outlook 2007, and create your own Internet calendars to share with others.

Calendar SnapShots

Send your calendar information to anyone with calendar snapshots. Need an easy way to share your calendar information with others? With calendar snapshots, Outlook 2007 creates an HTML representation of your calendar, making it easy to share this information with anyone.

Internet Calendar

Publish your Internet calendar to Microsoft Office Online. With Outlook 2007, you can easily create a new Internet calendar within Outlook 2007 and safely publish it to Office Online to share with others. Using a Microsoft Passport credential, you can invite a group of your coworkers, customers, friends, or family to view and work with your calendar so that everyone has the latest information.

Microsoft Windows SharePoint

Fully integrate with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services technology information. With Outlook 2007 you can fully interact with information stored in Windows SharePoint Services technology anywhere, anytime. You can connect Windows SharePoint Services calendars, documents, contacts, or tasks with Outlook 2007 and have full editing capabilities, knowing that any changes you make to the information stored in Outlook 2007 can be reflected in the server version.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007

When Outlook 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 are used in conjunction, users benefit from increased collaboration capabilities and security enhancements. Exchange Server 2007 provides the latest in improved protection from junk e-mail, dynamic mailbox connections, and unified messaging features. Improved protection and security enhancements with Exchange Server 2007. Together, Outlook 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 deliver anti-phishing technology in the new junk e-mail filter. Exchange Server 2007 acts as the first scan on incoming e-mail, determines the legitimacy of the e-mail message, and if applicable, disables links or URLs present in the e-mail to help protect users.

Electronic Business Cards

Customize and share electronic business cards. Electronic business cards are an easy way to create, customize, and share your information with customers, clients, or friends. You can add photos, company logos, or other personal information to your card so that the recipients have an easy way to identify your card.

Junk Mail Filters

Prevent junk e-mail and reduce exposure to malicious sites. The junk e-mail filter, introduced in Outlook 2003, helps prevent junk e-mail messages from cluttering your Inbox. In conjunction with the Outlook 2007 junk e-mail filter, Outlook 2007 has added ways to help protect you from divulging personal information. New anti-phishing features will disable threatening links and warn you about possibly malicious or phishing content within an e-mail message.

Anti-phishing

Anti-phishing capabilities in Office Outlook 2007 warn you about potentially threatening content right from within the e-mail messages.

Distribution Control

Control distribution of sensitive work. Help protect your company assets by preventing recipients from forwarding, copying, or printing important e-mail messages by using information rights management (IRM) functionality. You can even specify an expiration date for the message, after which it cannot be viewed or otherwise acted upon. IRM functionality requires Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or later running Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services (RMS).

Managed Email

Maintain compliance with managed e-mail folders. Exchange Server 2007 offers managed e-mail folders, a new approach to document retention, archiving, and regulatory compliance. Users see and interact with these folders in Outlook 2007 just like any other mail folder, but the messages stored within this folder gain retention, archive, and expiration policies defined by the administrator. With managed e-mail folders, users and administrators can easily comply with various forms of external regulation and internal company policies regarding message retention.

Postmark

Help ensure e-mail legitimacy with Outlook 2007 E-mail Postmark. Outlook 2007 E-mail Postmark helps ensure that e-mail reaching your inbox is legitimate and that e-mail sent by Outlook 2007 will be trusted by the recipient’s client. Creating mail with Outlook 2007 E-mail Postmark uses new technology that Microsoft has developed as part of the ongoing effort to curb junk mail. This technology asks the sender’s computer to perform a computation or puzzle, and then assigns this work as a token of legitimacy to the e-mail message. These e-mail postmarks are designed to make it very time-consuming and technologically detrimental for users to send mass e-mail like spam, yet they do not change the user experience of sending e-mail.

RSS Feeds

Outlook 2007 now supports RSS feeds. Work with RSS Subscriptions from within Outlook 2007. You can now fully subscribe to and interact with Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds right from Outlook 2007, the most natural place to manage this kind of information. It’s easy to get started adding RSS feeds using the RSS Subscriptions home page within Outlook 2007.