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Deep Dive: Understanding How Outlook Room Finder Uses the Places Service

Outlook Room Finder uses the Places service to find free conference rooms available in your organization’s building. Here’s what you need to know about how it works. What is the Outlook Room Finder? Over the years, the various iterations of what we refer to as ‘Outlook’ have gotten better at helping users schedule meetings. The...

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The Magic Behind OWA Likes

OWA is the only Outlook client that supports “Likes.” This begs the question how OWA supports likes and where the information about likes is stored. Some probing using easily accessible tools reveals the answer. You might think that the answer only interests Office 365 Trivial Pursuit nerds, but it’s actually of real interest to eDiscovery investigators.

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Microsoft Finally Adds an Undo Send Feature to OWA

Microsoft has finally provided an effective method to allow users to recall messages. Outlook’s Recall Message function usually doesn’t work, but OWA’s new Undo Send will stop messages that should never be sent. Five seconds might be too short to realize that you have made a mistake and should stop an outbound message, but ten seconds is about right. And if you are really indecisive, you can take up to 30 seconds to decide whether a message should go.

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