Showing posts with label Outlook 2010. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Outlook 2010. Show all posts

Thursday, July 4, 2013

Cannot create a new contact group (button is gray/disabled) in Outlook 2013 using my outlook.com account and Exchange ActiveSync EAS

I recently switched from Outlook 2010 to Outlook 2013 and also started to used the online version of Outlook.com. I moved my contacts to the new account.
But when i tried to create a new contact group, i couldn't, because the button was grayed out.
I did some search in the web on this issue an seems like there's no real "solution" to get this working because the Exchange ActiveSync protocol that is used between Outlook 2013 and Outlook.com does not support contact groups according to: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2013_release-outlook/contact-group-gray/da54e419-9c18-4d3b-9045-052ca1c90760

But at least I found out, that it's still possible to create contact groups in Outlook.com online and that the group name becomes a category of this contact in Outlook 2013. Displaying the contacts grouped by category and sending an email to such a group has a similar effect as using a contact group, although I would be much happier if the EAS would support contact groups by nature.

Here's a description how the group/category-thing works:
http://www.msoutlook.info/question/759

Unfortunately it does not work the other way round. Assigning a category in to a contact in Outlook 2013 does not sync back to Outlook.com nor creating a group for These contacts :-(

Sunday, June 23, 2013

Install Brother Control Center 3 for DCP-560CN under Windows 8 to scan multi-page-PDF

According to Brother, ControlCenter 3 does not support Windows 8. But i like the scan multiple pages into a PDF function of it, so i wanted it back on Windows 8 as well.

How-i-fixed-it:

I downloaded the Windows 7 Version here:
http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public/eu/de/de/dlf/download_index.html?reg=eu&c=de&lang=de&prod=dcp560cn_all&dlid=&flang=Deutsch&os=93&type2=-1

I decompresses itself into a local folder. Then I set the compatibily mode of the "Setup.exe" to "Windows 7" and installed the Software.

To make the scan to email function working with my Outlook 2010, i also downloaded and installed the Update Tool for ControlCenter3 from here:
http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public/eu/de/de/dlf/dlf/000000/003100/dlf003176.html?reg=eu&c=de&lang=de&prod=dcp560cn_all&type2=2&os=93&flang=17&dlid=dlf003176

With the software installed, i was able to scan multiple plages into a single PDF without problems.