MS Office Beta Notes

This is a side-blog where I intend to keep all of my notes from Beta testing new versions of Office. This will keep them all in one place for future reference. I started this with Office 2003, and am bringing it back for the 2007 version. This is not an official Microsoft site, this is just the ramblings of one IT guy.

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Outlook.exe

This is a problem I've seen a lot with Outlook 2000, especially at work where the Mailsite document management system add-in to Outlook has a great deal of difficulty closing when you close Outlook, but I really haven't seen it much in 2003. I'm starting to see it a bit with 2007. The problem, of course, is the outlook.exe process continuing to run even after I've closed Outlook. Heck the other day I even got notified of new mail about 20 minutes after I closed Outlook!

Here's hoping this is only a temporary problem. It's quite distressing to close Outlook in order to free up some resources (Outlook does tend to tie up a good deal of memory) only to discover those resources haven't been freed up.