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Save communicator chat history in outlook

For some reason, our installation of communicator was set not to save any messages by default, but it did save my call history.  Since I don't have any juicy communications at work, I don't have any problem saving everything in communicator. I save those chats for gchat. By the way, administrators of communicator can view your conversations in communicator, so I would be careful when using it. They also control if these settings are available, so you might not be able to change much anyways. When this option is selected, your chat messages and history will be saved to a folder in Outlook named "Conversation". (Image) Enabling this is very easy. It's done in Communicator, NOT in Outlook. 1. In Communicator go to file, tools, options... 2. Check the box that says " Save my instant message conversations in the Outlook Conversation History folder" After restarting you will have a folder in Outlook that will save your chats from now on. Here ...

Outlook 2010 - Change default from-address gmail

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It took me a while to figure out how to change the default from address in Outlook when using gmail or a google apps account. I've done it in Office 2010. This will make your alias the default email address when sending any emails. It won't say "on behalf of" or anything like that. 1. Set up gmail account in outlook if you haven't done so already http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=77689 2. In file tab, open Options 3. Select Advanced Tab 4. Send/Recieve... 5. Edit... 6. Select your account and click Account Properties... 7. IMAP E-mail tab 8. Change E-mail Address: (not User Name) Now when sending emails from the original account, the email address will actually be the new one even when the original account is selected. Note: You can't use google apps sync with this solution; you have to use use calendar sync if you want use the calendar also. If you just want to change the from address once, you c...