gHacks technology news » outlook patches http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:22:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Outlook 2007 SP1 http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/26/outlook-2007-sp1/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/26/outlook-2007-sp1/#comments Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:43:48 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/26/outlook-2007-sp1/ Microsoft has – rather quietly – released an preliminary update for Microsoft Outlook 2007 that will also be included in the soon to be coming Microsoft Office Service Pack 2. The Outlook 2007 update increases the performance and responsiveness of Microsoft’s desktop email client noticeably. Four key areas are improved by the patch including startup, shutdown, general responsiveness and folder or view switches.

The general responsiveness of Outlook 2007 has been increased by reducing the I/O disk usage processes and UI response times. Startup has been improved by moving long operations from the initial startup while shutdown time was decreased by making Outlook exit predictable. Finally the folder and view switching benefits from improved view rendering and folder switching routines.

The update is currently classified as a hotfix meaning that users will have to request it by providing their email address on a form at the Microsoft website. Users who do use Microsoft Outlook 2007 as their main email client will benefit from the update to a large extent. Startup time might be slower during first startup because of a one-time data structure upgrade.

Microsoft has updated their Mailbox Storage Size Guidance to reflect the performance and responsiveness improvements when utilizing Cached Exchange Mode with respect to mailbox/OST sizes:

  • Up to 5 gigabytes (GB): This size should provide a good user experience on most hardware.
  • Between 5 GB and 10 GB: This size is typically hardware dependent. Therefore, if you have a fast hard disk and much RAM, your experience will be better. However, slower hard drives, such as drives that are typically found on portable computers or early generation solid state drives (SSDs), experience some application pauses when the drives respond.
  • More than 10 GB: This size is where short pauses begin to occur on most hardware.
  • Very large, such as 25 GB or larger: This size increases the frequency of the short pauses, especially while you are downloading new e-mail. Alternatively, you can use Send/Receive groups to manually sync your mail.

The service pack for Outlook 2007 contains additional improvements for components like the Calendar or Outlook search among others. Interested users can read up on the Outlook 2007 SP1 update by visiting the extensive Microsoft Knowledgebase article and an official blog post covering the release announcement.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/26/outlook-2007-sp1/feed/ 5 Microsoft releases critical IE and Outlock Patches http://www.ghacks.net/2006/04/12/microsoft-releases-critical-ie-and-outlock-patches/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/04/12/microsoft-releases-critical-ie-and-outlock-patches/#comments Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:34:01 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=393 Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for April, 2006 lists three critical, one important and one moderate vulnerability that have been fixed with the new patch. ]]> If you are still using Microsoft Internet Explorer or Outlook you should immediatly start your Windows Update Service and download and install the latest patches for those two programs that Microsoft released yesterday to the public. The Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for April, 2006 lists three critical, one important and one moderate vulnerability that have been fixed with the new patch.

My advise would be to switch from Internet Explorer and Outlook to applications that do not have that many serious flaws and are less of a security risk to the user. Those would be Firefox or Opera instead of Internet Explorer and Opera Mail or TheBat mail client instead of Outlook Express. Just search in google for the above terms and you will find the manufacturers website.

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