Outlook 2007 Autodiscover Whitepaper

Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 includes the ability to automatically configure user accounts. Outlook uses one of two discovery mechanisms to automatically configure accounts: Autodiscover and Common Settings Discover. This whitepaper describes how the discovery mechanisms work, and how an administrator can modify settings in an XML file to configure Autodiscover for an organization.

Outlook 2007 Autodiscover Whitepaper

Junk E-mail Reporting Tool

Here’s something every user of Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007 should have, the Junk E-mail Reporting Tool. Here’s the overview from Microsoft:

The Junk E-mail Reporting Tool submits e-mail to Microsoft when you explicitly choose to do so. If you receive a junk e-mail and want to report it to us for analysis, first select the e-mail in Outlook and then click the junk e-mail button on your tool bar. You will see a pop-up window asking whether you want to report the selected e-mail to Microsoft and its affiliates. When you click “Yes” to confirm that you’d like to report the selected e-mail as junk e-mail, the junk e-mail will be deleted from your Inbox and sent to FrontBridge, a Microsoft company, for analysis to help us improve the effectiveness of our junk e-mail filtering technologies.

It beats simply adding them to your blocked senders, since the spam never comes from the same address twice anyway…