2025-11-19
🔗 Detect and convert encodings
ConvertEncoding enables reliable detection and conversion of encodings.
The history of encoding began long before IT. Even the first alphabets were attempts to translate spoken language into visual symbols. Whether cuneiform, hieroglyphics, or the Latin alphabet, every culture developed its own systems for encoding information and preserving it across time and space.
With the advent of computers, encoding...
2025-11-12
🔗 Why is Out Of Office abbreviated as OOF and not OOO?
Let's rewind to the 1980s. Back then, Microsoft Xenix was the leading Unix OS…
It's one of those quirks that makes you pause: Why do we say OOF instead of OOO?
Let's rewind to the 1980s. Back then, Microsoft Xenix was the leading Unix OS - yes, really! - and Microsoft itself was running its own mail system on it. This system had a...
2025-11-04
🔗 How to deploy a signature only once – and a clever alternative
Sometimes, you want to deploy a signature only once, allow the user to personalize it, and never overwrite it again.
Signature management solutions like Set-OutlookSignatures are designed to reduce user errors, simplify updates, and empower IT and marketing teams to manage signatures efficiently.
Sometimes, you want to deploy a signature only once, allow the user to personalize it, and never overwrite it again.
There are three ways to achive this...
2025-10-28
🔗 What can I learn from the code of Set-OutlookSignatures?
Set-OutlookSignatures is not just a tool for managing Outlook signatures and out-of-office replies.
Set-OutlookSignatures is not just a tool for managing Outlook signatures and out-of-office replies. It is free and open-source because I want to give something back to the community that has helped me so often over the years.
The code is, of course, full of stuff related to getting reliable information...
2025-10-20
🔗 Current state and future of roaming signatures
When Microsoft announced roaming signatures back in 2020, it sounded like a game-changer.
A game changer with a downside
When Microsoft announced roaming signatures back in 2020, it sounded like a game-changer. No more local signature storage. A consistent experience across devices. And finally, a solution to the one-signature limitation in on-prem Outlook for the web.
That was the theory.
Fast forward to...