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Microsoft Office Outlook newsgroup.

One of the larger rooms on Microsoft’s own public news server, covering Outlook as a mail, calendar and contacts client: profiles and data files, connectivity to Exchange, rules, forms and the perennial mystery of a mailbox that would not open.

The microsoft.public.* hierarchy and its 2010 retirement are described on this directory’s Microsoft branch page.

Reading microsoft.public.outlook today

  • Historical archive: Google Groups — microsoft.public.outlook (coverage varies by group and era).
  • Open in a newsreader: news:microsoft.public.outlook — the original site offered exactly this link, and it still works if your system has a newsreader registered for the news: scheme.
  • Live access: point an NNTP newsreader at a modern server — see accessing Usenet today.
  • The original news2mail e-mail subscription service ended in the mid-2000s and no longer operates.