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The Outlook team is proud to announce the release of the February Cumulative Update for Outlook 2007, a series of performance and reliability improvements that have been consolidated into a single package for our customers. Since the release of Outlook 2007 we have been working hard to improve performance, and this update represents the latest in our continued efforts to build a better experience for Outlook users around the world.
To get started and install the update right away visit the download page. This update contains a significant number of new performance-focused improvements for Outlook users. We especially focused on the areas of starting up and shutting down Outlook, switching between folders with large numbers of messages, calendar reliability and consistency, and general responsiveness of the application when performing common tasks around managing your e-mail, calendar, and other information. In short, we believe your daily experience with Outlook will be greatly improved with the installation of this Cumulative Update.
For IT Pros or anyone managing a large deployment of Outlook 2007, this update will help address various concerns you may have received from your users regarding Outlook performance and responsiveness. Many of our customers have provided valuable feedback since the initial launch of Outlook 2007, and that feedback has directly influenced our investment in publishing this update. This update should address many concerns for both individual users and those managing large deployments of Outlook alike. To get detailed information regarding which specific issues have been addressed please read the February Cumulative Update Whitepaper.
Note: Upon successful installation of the update, the first time Outlook is run there will be a slight one-time delay as Outlook reprocesses your data files – after this initial process, performance will be improved as stated above and in the whitepaper.
Dev Balasubramanian
Outlook Product Manager
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It is exciting, but will it also be available via officeupdate and microsoftupdate? What are the considerations when choosing between waiting for it to appear there, or applying the changes now?
Got to work but had to unzip in file other than default in the unzip-per. Seems like maybe great improvement.
A job very well done indeed. The first-ever set of cumulative Office updates were a little bumpy (either the hotfixes were ready but the articles were not, or visa versa). These articles are very comprehensive and timely.
Downloaded twice, uncompressed (on WXP Pro to different locations) and ran hotfix but received the following error:
The detection failed, this can be due to a corrupted installation database. Any suggestions?
Kudos to the Outlook 2007 team for acknowledging and directly addressing customer concerns, in areas like startup and shutdown, calendar reliability, and general responsiveness. And Thank You for documenting both the intent and the details in the KB968009 -- "Outlook 2007 improvements in the February 2009 cumulative update" Thank You All! Regards, -Joel.
First startup is not a "slight delay" on my machine (Vista Ult x64, 8GB RAM). It's almost at 2 hours now.
mmh, sounds great, unfortunately i cant install, installation db seems corrupt (so it says), any quick remedies?
Proof if it was needed that you have been listening - I'll hold back on the gushing praise for the engineering effort until I've seen that the calendar fixes do fix our biggest pain-points :o) But most of all, thanks for the greatest KB article I've seen in ages. Takes me back to the days of 'proper' resource kits (when they told you in detail how the product worked, not just how to install it). I really hope this is a sign of more in-depth technical writing to come.
Installed without a problem. However hyperlinks in new emails seem to have been effected and now show up as follows and do not work: {HYPERLINK "http://www.sitename.com"} Does anyone else have this problem. I have hyperlinks within my business signature so this is not acceptable. Can the hotfix be reversed/removed until this matter is resolved?
ok so this is serious now. I cannot get outlook working, I am trying to restore (although nothing appears to be happening) and you guys have gone to ground. What is going on. Is there anything I can do? Bruce McRitchie
mcritchb@live.com
I have been experiencing an issue with Outlook removing all of the HTML formatting from a Template that sends fine manually when sending that template via an auto-responding rule. Is this something that would be addressed in the new update or is this something that can be fixed via a setting?
After installing, my x64 system could no longer boot (msrpc.sys not found), which makes sense since it was labelled x86. Is there a different version for x64?
Hey everyone, Thank you for all the comments and questions on the February CU. To address the issues that have been raised we are currently working on a follow up post that will go live early next week. We sincerely appreciate your patience and feedback. Thank you, The Outlook Blog Team
Are all of these fixes included in SP2? Should most users who aren't having any problems wait for that?
...stupid question - but the zip file is password protected - and I didn't get one - can anyone help???
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