Take back Outlook in control

If you receive too many mails, here are 2 powerful freeware:

Microsoft Email Prioritizer

http://www.officelabs.com/projects/emailprioritizer/Pages/default.aspx

xobni (inbox in reverse)
http://www.xobni.com/

Exchange: Make a shared contact folder available Offline

If you need a shared contact folder available offline:
-Add the folder to your favorite in Outlook
-Change your exchange account to get all public folders favorites available offline

Outlook refusing to delete mail rules

If you have broken Outlook mail rules that you can't remove from the outlook rules UI, you can remove all of them (bad AND good!):

Outlook.exe /cleanrules



Take care, it will remove ALL rules, not just broken ones