Jean-Benoit Paux's blog

Microsoft released last week Office 2010 Technical Preview on Connect and it is time to speak about it !

I really appreciate this new version, for a lot of reasons (conversation display in Outlook, improvements of UI in most of apps of the suite etc.) but I’d like to emphasis on one improvement I was asking for a long time : the ability to have multiple Exchange Accounts in the same Outlook process (without using App-V, run-as or other tips to launch multiple Outlook).

You can ask why do I have 2 Exchange accounts, but it is simply because I’ve got my Avanade corporate account and my personal Exchange server (Exchange 2007 but soon Exchange 2010)

So how to do this ?

1. Close Outlook
2. Go to control panel
3. Search “Mail”
4. Click on New Account
5. Enter your account settings (and use Autodiscovery !)
6. Launch Outlook

As you can see it is really straightforward so abuse of it !

I’ve got now my two Exchange accounts, as we had before for POP/IMAP :

If you often use PowerShell as script language you well know the out-* and export-* cmdlets.

I often use export-csv and open the result in Excel or out-GridView in PowerShell v2 (useful cmdlet BTW) for a nice graphical interface. I sometime use Excel API to create an Excel sheet directly or to import data but something was missing : simplicity.

These are an excellent solutions but why don’t we use Excel directly with an out-excel cmdlet ?

I just found this cmdlet there : http://pathologicalscripter.wordpress.com/out-excel/ and it is working very well ! So have fun using it.