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VSTO/COM add-ins Vs Office 365 web add-ins: Key differences to know

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Microsoft Outlook is one of the most widely used email clients in the world. With its robust features and capabilities, it has become an essential tool for businesses and individuals alike. One of the key advantages of Outlook is its ability to integrate with various add-ins that can enhance its functionality and make it even more powerful.

Two popular types of add-ins for Outlook are VSTO (Visual Studio Tools for Office) add-ins and web add-ins. Both offer unique benefits and features, but there are some key differences between them that users should be aware of.

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How to Deploy Software to Multiple Workstations

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1. Introduction

Deploying software to multiple workstations in an enterprise can be time and effort consuming. Using automatic deployment tools can optimize this process. We will use MAPILab Mail Merge Toolkit as an example to show the most common (as we see it) modern ways of installing the product on multiple workstations:

  • Mass deployment using MSI file and Group Policy.
  • On-premises package deployment tools such as System Center Configuration Manager (Endpoint Configuration Manager) from Microsoft or from a third-party vendor such as Ivanti Endpoint Manager, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, and others.
  • Cloud-based package deployment tools like Microsoft Intune or third-party alternatives.
  • OS image preparation for virtual desktop environments like Azure Virtual Desktop.
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Outlook blocks an add-in over and over again

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Microsoft Outlook is a powerful email client that offers a wide range of features and capabilities. One of the key advantages of Outlook is its ability to integrate with various add-ins that can enhance its functionality and make it even more powerful. However, there are times when Outlook may disable COM add-ins, leaving users frustrated and confused.

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How to automatically subscribe and unsubscribe from mailing lists in Microsoft Outlook

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In today’s digital age, many companies have stopped using email distribution lists to notify visitors and subscribers to their websites, replacing them with social media pages and groups. However, along with previously used lists, companies often need to send messages to internal user groups or special limited lists managed by specific employees. Managing these lists can pose both technical and organizational challenges.

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Mail Merge Toolkit: Is it safe to use? How secure is my data?

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When researching email marketing tools available on the market and choosing the one that fits your needs, data security is one of the main concerns. A lot of modern bulk mailing services require you to upload your sensitive data to some online 3rd party services. And for many users, this situation is not acceptable for many reasons.

This is where Mail Merge Toolkit comes to the rescue. This add-in is developed specifically for Microsoft Office environment (Excel, Word, Publisher, Outlook) and only extends built-in features.

The program is installed and runs locally on your PC, and no data is being transferred to MAPILab in any way. There are no additional 3rd party servers or services involved. This guarantees 100% privacy for email campaign content, attachments, and recipients.

The only information being exchanged with MAPILab is license validation and new version notification, which can be disabled in the settings.

Mail Merge Data Security

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Change sender email address in mail merge with Word

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Out of the box, Microsoft Word sends mail merge emails using a default Outlook account and doesn`t offer an option to use different email accounts. This often leads to the common mistake of sending with the wrong email address.

Mail Merge Email Options

This is where Mail Merge Toolkit comes to the rescue, offering full control over the FROM field:

  • Before sending messages, you can change the sender, when having multiple Outlook accounts.
  • Moreover, you can mail merge as someone else if you were delegated Send As or Send on Behalf of another Microsoft 365 or Exchange mailbox permissions.
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Schedule and Throttle Mail Merge in Word

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Along with many other exceptional features, Mail Merge Toolkit allows to control the number of outgoing messages during a specified period. At the Sending Setting tab, you can set a limit for sending email: a size and a pause between batches. Also, if required, you can delay the delivery and schedule the sending start.

Mail Merge: delay sending and throttle emails

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Mail Merge Toolkit: send password-protected PDF and DOCX attachments

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These days data privacy and security issues have become a critical part of our life. From this article, you will learn how to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive data sent using Mail Merge Toolkit by securing attachments with a password. It is the commonly used scenario to meet company security policies, GDPR requirements, and so on.

Mail Merge Toolkit is a powerful add-in for Microsoft Office that significantly expands the built-in mass mailing features. It allows you to send attachments, personalize subject lines, select the sender account, use CC/BCC fields and much more. Now it also can encrypt PDF and DOCX documents with a password.

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Mail Merge with Cc / Bcc using Word

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This article will show how to easily add Cc and Bcc recipients while mailing the merged document. There is no such build-in option in Microsoft Office but using Mail Merge Toolkit you can send Carbon and Blind Carbon Copies. Just specify secondary and hidden recipients the same way as in regular Outlook messages.

But what’s the point of sending copies of personalized emails in the first place?

The main idea of Cc is to make all recipients aware of getting the same message. And later by using the Reply All option, people from this email thread can be involved in the future conversation. This is especially useful for related contacts like a recipient, and recipient`s assistant, or student, and parent, or client, and account manager, etc.

On the other hand, Bcc allows the opposite scenario, by hiding additional recipients from anyone listed in the To and Cc fields in order to protect the privacy of email addresses and names.

This can be used in both internal and external communications.

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Searching in Public Folders on Exchange Server

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Public Folders provide an easy and convenient way to share content with multiple users and user groups in an organization. All users have access to Microsoft Outlook to work with their emails and mailboxes, so adding Public Folders as an additional feature to the product they know very well is convenient and efficient.
Deployment and management of Public Folders are also simple and clear for Exchange Administrators since they don’t need to use regular mailboxes for that purpose and configure sophisticated permissions to give control of those mailboxes to multiple users.

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