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How To Synchronise Outlook 2007 RSS Feed Subscriptions with Common Feeds List

Question on Social TechNet Forum: (http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointadmin/thread/14d633b1-0dee-4af3-abef-ae0c67d864fa/#645d505a-8afc-481a-8a2d-83a1279b3911)

Have a new installation of MOSS (SP2) and when we create an RSS feed from a SharePoint site (blog) the RSS feed comes up and does create a feed in Internet Explorer but does not create a feed into Outlook 2007.

Links to get you familiar with Office 2010

Office 2010 Technical Preview was officially released this week at WPC and tweeps (people on twitter) have been sharing their news, experience, new features, etc already. You can keep up with the latest buzz using BingTweets.

I have compiled a small list to get started with Office 2010! I would recommend adding all Microsoft related blogs to your RSS reader and if you are on twitter, follow

Office 2010 Technical Preview: Outlook 2010 Ribbon

If you have been using Outlook 2007 and have never had performance issues with, you are lucky. Period.

Outlook 2007 was and probably is the most chastised of the Office 2007 suite of products today. Outlook 2007 took a hit with performance.

Despite having released numerous hot fixes and service packs, Outlook 2007 has not won many laurels. Time will tell if Outlook 2010 will outperform Outlook 2007 in the performance department!!

In the meantime see how Outlook 2010 TP has now donned the ‘ribbon’ just as SharePoint Designer 2010 TP.

Welcome Ribbon to SharePoint Designer 2010

2010 is the year of the Ribbon :) Ribbon has been introduced in

  • InfoPath Designer,
  • InfoPath Editor,
  • Outlook,
  • SharePoint Designer
  • One Note
  • SharePoint Workspace

Yes, the ribbon has made it’s way into SharePoint Designer 2010 (technical preview at the time of writing).

In this post you will see basic SPD2010 walk through.

This is the initial start up screen when you launch SPD 2010. This is your launch pad to

Send SMS from Outlook 2007

The Outlook Mobile Service (OMS) was introduced in Outlook 2007 to allow you to send and receive text messages in Outlook. It also enables you to configure mobile notifications to have important messages, calendar summaries, and reminders forwarded to your mobile phone as text messages. The OMS features depend on hosting providers which provide the connection between Outlook and your mobile phone.

Until now, few users in North America were able to use these features because only a few wireless service providers were supported by SMSLink, the only hosting provider available in North America when Outlook 2007 was released. With the recent introduction of SMSOfficer, a new OMS hosting provider, you can send and receive text messages in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 regardless of which wireless service provider you use.