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How to Improve Microsoft Outlook Performance

Confirm that your Microsoft Outlook client is up to date Office Account > Update Options > Update Now

Consider disabling “Show Apps in Outlook” in Outlook Options >  AdvancedConsider disabling Message arrival notifications, these include “Play a sound”, “Briefly change the mouse pointer”, “Show and envelope icon in the taskbar”, and “Display a Desktop Alert” in Outlook Options > Mail

Consider disabling “Use animations when expanding conversations and groups” in Outlook Options >AdvancedConsider disabling “Show Weather on the calendar” in Outlook Options > Calendar

Microsoft Outlook for Android will require Android 9.0 or above starting 10th July 2023

Beginning 10th July 2023, Outlook for Android will no longer support Android 8.x or below.  Users will need to upgrade their Android operating system to Android 9.0 or newer.  If this is not possible then the Android device will need to be replaced with a device that is able to run Android 9.0 or newer.

If users are using Outlook for Android on phones running an older version of Android, they will no longer be able to update to newer versions of Outlook for Android when Microsoft  implement this change.

It should be possible to use the “Get-MobileDevice” powershell command to export a list of devices that are using ActiveSync.  Using this report it should then be possible to review which Android devices are still running an OS that is too old.

Get-MobileDevice | Export-Csv -Path “c:\getmobiledevice\devices.csv”

When using the powershell command above please make sure that the output folder exists.  In this case I created a folder called “getmobiledevice” on the root of C:\

Useful Virus Removal Tools

A comprehensive list of useful Virus Removal Tools

Sophos Virus Removal Tool

http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/free-tools/virus-removal-tool.aspx

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware

http://www.malwarebytes.org

Kaspersky Rescue Disk

http://support.kaspersky.com/viruses/rescuedisk

Trend Micro HijackThis

http://free.antivirus.com/hijackthis/

Trend Micro CWShredder

http://free.antivirus.com/cwshredder/

Trend Micro RootKit Buster

http://free.antivirus.com/rootkit-buster/

Spybot – Search & Destroy

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/spybotsd/index.html

ESET Online Scanner

http://www.eset.com/us/online-scanner/

ComboFix

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/combofix/

Avira AntiVir Rescue System

http://www.avira.com/en/download/product/avira-antivir-rescue-system

Avira AntiRootkit Tool

http://www.avira.com/en/download/product/avira-antirootkit-tool

AVG Rescue CD

http://www.avg.com/gb-en/avg-rescue-cd

BitDefender Rescue CD

http://download.bitdefender.com/rescue_cd/

F-Secure Rescue CD

http://www.f-secure.com/en/web/labs_global/removal/rescue-cd

F-Secure Online Scanner

http://www.f-secure.com/en/web/labs_global/removal/online-scanner