Kids and Computers - Introduction
A few weeks ago at a “Boxing Day” party, I was asked for the second time in as many months about protecting kids using computers. I shouldn’t find this surprising since my daughter and her friends are tweens and starting to use computers and other devices that connect to the ...New Year's Resolutions - Take Back Your Workday Tips
Still struggling to stay productive in the age of distraction? Tony Wong recently sat down and discussed the top 7 ways in which your organization can keep productivity and focus while still staying connected.
Dining by Design a Hit!
On November 5th, SureTech took part in the Princeton Arts Councils Dining by Deisgn event. Check out some highlights from the night, including a slideshow video of the amazing art created by many of the programs participants.
Princeton Friends School Case Study
“I’m so glad SureTech.com kicked some of our IT to the cloud,” said Mary D’Amore, Director of Technology for Princeton Friends School, as she discussed the restructuring of the School’s IT system. “Over a period of eight months SureTech.com provided a breadth of specialized support coupled with more efficient hosted solutions...
Safe Internet Use Tips
Worms | Big Files | Email Chains | SPAM | Using Outlook
Avoid unnecessary slow usage and Outlook crashes by making sure your system is running as optimally as possible.
The MSExchangeTeam.com offers great advice on optimizing performance. Here is a brief overview. Please click here to see the full article:
- It's the item count not the size that matters - having a large number of items in a folder will mean that operations in that folder will take longer (so long that it may seem like Outlook has crashed since it seems frozen).
- Performance is largely influenced by the number of items in the "critical path folders": Calendar, Contacts, Inbox, and Sent Item folder.
- The MS Exchange Team recommends no more than about 2500-5000 messages in any of the critical path folders. If you have more than 5,000 messages in your inbox, for example, you can have unpredictable results depending on how you use Outlook.
- Other folders can handle having larger numbers of items without having a broad impact on the user experience. Create sub-folders to store older messages. You can search easily still and improve optimization! If you would like advice or help on how to use sub-folders we are happy to help. Just email or call our HelpDesk and a technician will be happy to work with you.
- If you are ever experiencing issues using Outlook on your local desktop, please use https://outlook.suretech.com (NOTE: the domain is https and no www after that) but be sure to save your work often, because if you lose your internet connection your window will not save your work on Outlook Web Access.
As always, if you have any questions or need support please drop us a line at This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript .
- The Solutions Team
Outlook Best Practices
