Microsoft Outlook 8.2.2 for Macintosh - Release Information April 2000 © 2000 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft and Outlook are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States of America and other countries. Apple, Macintosh, and Power Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. StuffIt Expander is a trademark of Aladdin Systems, Inc. Your rights to use this software are governed by the terms, conditions, and restrictions of either the Server License for Microsoft Server Products or the Client Access License for Microsoft Server Products, as appropriate. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Downloading and Installing Microsoft Outlook 8.2.2 for Macintosh --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Download the file "mac-outlook-8.2.2.hqx" or the file "mac-outlook-8.2.1.bin". (If you don't know which file to choose, download the file "mac-outlook-8.2.1.hqx".) 2. Use a utility to decode and unstuff the downloaded file as necessary. You might need to download Aladdin StuffIt Expander version 5.0 or later to decompress this file. This free download can be found at http://www.aladdinsys.com/expander/index.html. 3. Open the folder "Microsoft Outlook 8.2.2" that was created on the desktop. 4. Double-click "Microsoft Outlook Setup" to begin the installation. --------------------------------------------------------------------- System Requirements --------------------------------------------------------------------- Minimum: Apple Macintosh with a 68030 or faster processor, System 7.5.5 or later and at least 16 megabytes (MB) of RAM. Recommended: Apple Power Macintosh with Mac OS 8.0 or later and at least 16 MB of RAM. In addition, Outlook will run faster if virtual memory is enabled and set to a minimum of 1 MB above the installed physical memory. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Issues Fixed in Version 8.2.1 and 8.2.2 --------------------------------------------------------------------- The following issues were fixed in version 8.2.2: * Calendar information was occasionally corrupted during a network operation, causing the calendar owner to have to repair it. If you still see frequent corruption messages after installing version 8.2.2 and you have a local schedule file on your computer, see the section in the Release Notes titled "Anti-Virus Programs and "Outlook Calendar" for more information on preventing calendar corruption. * If a new mail message was received while the Outlook window was hidden, Outlook would cause the system to pause. This was especially noticeable when transferring files, because the progress bar would stop moving. Clicking the mouse button would cause the system to resume temporarily. * Y2K: Entering 1/1/0001 in the To-Do list and pressing the TAB key would cause the date to be displayed as 1/1/1900. * Japanese text sent over the Internet was sent with Shift-JIS encoding, but several other e-mail programs only understand text encoded as JIS. The administrator can now specify the encoding on the Exchange Server for non-signed, non-encrypted messages. * A Type 2 error would sometimes be received if the e-mail viewer was closed and only the Calendar window was open. * Web Forms could only be created or opened once each time Outlook was started. Subsequent Web Forms could not be opened until Outlook was restarted. * Drag and drop of aliases into mail messages sometimes resulted in an unusable e-mail attachment. * When an e- mail attachment or a document was opened from an Outlook folder, the Outlook e-mail viewer and folder list refreshed sporadically. * Although shift-clicking a hyperlink allows you to choose an application to open the hyperlink, Outlook ignored your choice and used the default application to open the link. * New applications could be created on the hard disk when shift-clicking a hyperlink and clicking New in the Locate Link Browser dialog box. This button is now unavailable. * In certain network configurations, such as NAT (Network Address Translation), new mail does not appear immediately. You may be using this configuration if you are using Apple AirPort wireless networking technology. If you are seeing this problem, see the section in the release notes titled "Using Outlook and Wireless Networking". The following issues were fixed in version 8.2.1: * Messages with a blank subject could not be dragged from Outlook to the desktop. Instead, the following error message appeared: "The drag and drop operation could not be completed. An error occurred while writing to the disk. The disk might be full or write-protected.Ó * On a computer without security enabled, messages occasionally would not send the first time. Instead, the ÒSendÓ toolbar button remained in the depressed state. * When copying or cutting text that contained an URL and then closing the message, a message always appeared asking you if you would like to keep the large amount of text on the clipboard. * Holding down the CTRL key while double-clicking a hyperlink in a mail message multiple times caused Outlook to freeze. * Sometimes Outlook launched the web browser to display the target of a hyperlink in a message, even if that hyperlink was not directly clicked on. * Japanese characters received over the Internet were sometimes displayed incorrectly using the Japanese version of Outlook. * Messages with multiple attachments forwarded from an Outlook Web Access client to Outlook 8.2 displayed only the first attachment. * Web Forms were not being rendered in Outlook Web Access, even if the Web Services information was correctly entered. * Outlook was unable to use Web Services with an SSL-secured (https://) web server. * On a 68K-based Macintosh, dragging attachments from a message into an Exchange folder sometimes caused a Type 2 error. --------------------------------------------------------------------- For More Information --------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information about Microsoft Outlook 8.2.2 for Macintosh, including information about new features, read the Release Notes from your Microsoft Outlook 8.2.2 installation folder.