Adjusting settings for Avast Antivirus shields. Scanning applies only to messages sent or received using mail management software, such as Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird. To modify your Mail Shield settings. To modify your Web Shield settings, open the Avast user interface, go to Settings Components. Configuring outgoing SMTP server settings in your email client to use the port 465 or 587. Apple Mail (Mac). To change SMTP settings in Microsoft Outlook.

March 7, 2015 •,, • Views: 68651 This week’s is now officially available was a little surprise to me. I knew it was coming, but didn’t expect it to be available already. Ok, it is “just” a preview and may be you shouldn’t use it for your business, but on the other hand why not give it a try. Recent previews of Microsoft solutions are rather stable. So, I tried, but the installation included some unpleasant surprises. Hard to download Office 2011 for Mac used to be a lot better than the version for the Windows users several years ago.

The launch of Office 2013 meant a huge upgrade for the Windows user. One of the biggest advantages of Office 2013 is the integration with among others SharePoint and OneDrive. Working with SharePoint has been a rather painful job on a Mac. Office 2016 will improve everything for the Mac users and therefore many of them seemed to request for the since Microsoft announced its availability on their blog.

Microsoft’s servers were rather slow or not responding. They were clearly not prepared for such a high demand. Yosemite is needed In case you did not yet upgrade your OS X to Yosemite, this will be the first thing to do. I kept postponing this, because I was too afraid it would influence my Windows 8 Bootcamp setup. After securing my most essential files I decided just to do it. The upgrade went smooth.

In case you need support in upgrading you will find. Outlook crashed at startup Once I had the Office 2016 installation file available the process went rather smooth at first. Only the Outlook setup took long. I decided not to import my Outlook 2011 settings, because I hardly used it anymore. I decided to connect Outlook to my companies Office 365 account. And then it crashed.

Rebooting, reinstalling, etc. Just didn’t help. It didn’t want to run anymore. Thanks to all those great online support forums I managed to find the solution. Previous settings that Outlook left behind had to be deleted with the following simple steps: • Open Terminal (click the Spotlight search glass in the top right corner and type terminal) • Type: defaults delete com.microsoft.Outlook (to delete the old preferences) • Type: killall cfprefsd (to kill the cached prefs) • Launch Outlook 4.

Outlook keeps asking for activation May be connecting to my Office 365 account was not to be the best idea. Outlook kept requesting for activation. Skype for business online archive. Online I didn’t manage to find a satisfactory solution. I decided to uninstall again, but this time Outlook only. By the end of last year Outlook for Mac already has been released and you can download it from Office 365 and that’s what I did. I don’t know whether this is a different version, but it didn’t ask for activation. Just to be sure I performed the above described preferences cleaning process as well.

My mail and calendar data started synchronizing! Mail not sending Full of regained enthusiasm, the whole process started with downloading efforts a day earlier, I prepared the first messages. Quite important ones.