Setup free emails with your own domain on Outlook.com

MS Outlook.com offers free email service, in which you can create emails (50 & can more) with your own domain. Further its email is unlimited storage. So what are you waiting for? :)

1. Register your own domain with domains.live.com

Go to domains.live.com, sign in then click Add domain button. Fill your domain to the box then click Continue button. See below image for quick reference:

2. Review and accept agreement

Microsoft will ask you review & accept the agreement. Let accept it.

3. Verify your domain and config MX record

After finishing step 2 above, it will display setting info for you to config your domain. You must verify the domain before using. There are some ways there. I recommend you use MX record way to verify and config your domain to send emails just in 1 step. Let pay attention on Mail setup (required) section as the following:

Go to DNS of the domain and add a MX record with value same as MX server which you see on Mail setup (required) the area. You can add your domain registrar for supporting to add this MX record.
When this is finished, it needs time (few minutes to 48 hours) to verify  your domain. After click Refresh in above picture, if you see Your service is Active like the following picture, that's time you can add emails for the domain:

Or after few hours, you can sign-in domains.live.com again, then select your domain with status Pending DNS configuration to hit Refresh button again, until it is active.

4. Create accounts (emails)

After your domain is active, you can create emails. Or you can add them by clicking Member accounts menu then click Add button. You also can Edit or Delete emails here.

5. Check and send emails via an apps

If you have time, you can read detail instruction here. In this article, I'll brief in major steps:

5.1 Enable POP

Go to Outlook.com, log-in to your email account, then click Options:

Then click Connect devices and apps with POP:

Click Enable option, select Don't let... to keep your emails on the server. Click Save button.

5.2 Config client email app

After enabling POP, now you can receive & send emails via an apps. Below is setting info:

• Incoming (POP3) Server
  • Server address: pop-mail.outlook.com
  • Port: 995
  • Encrypted Connection: SSL
• Outgoing (SMTP) Server
  • Server address: smtp-mail.outlook.com
  • Port: 25 (or 587 if 25 is blocked)
  • Authentication: Yes
  • Encrypted Connection: TLS
• User name: Your email address
• Password: Your password
• If you don’t want email to be deleted from your Outlook.com inbox after it’s downloaded to your email app, select the Leave a copy of messages on the server option.

That's all. Bye! See you in next geek!

Remove MS Outlook Addin

1. In MS Outlook, goto Tool >> Trust Center >> Add-ins >> select the addin >> click Go button >> uncheck / remove the addin
2. In MS Outlook, right click the toolbar >> Customize >> tab Toolbars >> delete the addin toolbar
3. Uninstall the addin
4. Run cmd, type: echo %appdata%
==> go to %appdata% folder
==> delete folder like addin name

==> delete / rename file extend.dat in Miscrosoft/Office/Outlok if any

5. Restart MS Outlook

Debugging Outlook 2010 Add-ins with Visual Studio 2010

I’m using the Office 2010 RC and VS 2010 RC1.
There is an odd change in behaviour when trying to step into an Outlook 2010 Add-in from VS2010. Using VS2008, I set Outlook as the external program to start, set breakpoints and hit F5. The breakpoints were hit as expected. I upgraded the project to VS2010 but when trying to debug, Outlook started without hitting the breakpoints. I could see the Add-in loading and it was visible after Outlook started.
I was lucky enough to get a tip from a colleague that if I set the Start Action to Start project rather then Start external program, then it worked fine. We’re still trying to determine if this is an intended change in behaviour or a bug. I’d call it a bug, but this is my first attempt at writing an Office Add-in, so I’ve not been on any aliases etc to see if this was ever mentioned.
This may affect other Office applications, but I’ve not had a chance to investigate it further.
[UPDATE: Answers from Misha here: http://blogs.msdn.com/mshneer/archive/2010/03/19/com-shim-wizards-for-vs-2010.aspx]

Source: http://freetodev.wordpress.com/2010/03/05/debugging-outlook-2010-add-ins-with-visual-studio-2010/

vtiger 5.3 - Outlook Plugin 2.1 - Installation Problem

Removed all the .NET, and only installed the last one, .NET framework 4. But it seems it does'nt replace the older versions, all frameworks are complementary.

1 Installation of the .NET Framework 2.1 and 3.5 versions, all needed for VTiger.

2 Then, I installed the Microsoft Office 2010: Primary Interop Assemblies Redistributable

3 Plugin 2.1 installation

4 If the plugin don't show, then try to go in the Trust Control center and activete it. If it does'nt start, follow step 5.

5 Replace the OFFICE.DLL and Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.dll into the plugin folder by the one mentionned by lsmonki. Restard outlook, and if the plugin does'nt show by itself, go activate it in the Trust Control Center. It should start now.

And as a bonus, here's some things you can do to troubleshoot the plugin startup process if this procedure does'nt work for you. I hope this will be as usefull for you as it was for me.

1 - activate fusion login. Open regedit and in the node HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Fusion add the following keys :
- DWORD EnableLog with value 1
- DWORD ForceLog with value 1
- DWORD LogFailures with value 1
- String LogPath with value a directory of your choice, don't forget to create it (e.g. c:\tmp\fusion)

2 - try to load the extension with a simple VB script. Create a file names addin.vbs and edit it with the following content :

set o = CreateObject("vtigerCRMOutlookAddin.Connect")

Execute it, then go to the log folder created above, there may be files created with usefull infos in case of failure.

3 - activate logging in Outlook by creating the following environement variables :
- VSTO_LOGALERTS with value 1
- VSTO_SUPPRESSDISPLAYALERTS with value 0
Restart outlook and try to activate the plugin. It should display usefull error messages.