Outlook

Here's a cool trick. If you receive a lot of email attachments, maybe it would be useful to save them to My Documents or some other location on your computer besides keeping them in Outlook. I can show you how to do exactly that! These instructions show you step by step how to automatically save attachments of emails as they arrive. I have tested this in Outlook 2007 and 2010.

If you don't want the Reminders window to pop up for every event, here's how to turn it off completely.

In Outlook 2003, Click the Tools Menu, Options, Other tab, Advanced button and remove the check to
display the reminder.

Note, this is not the same thing as turning off the default reminder for new events.

From http://www.outlook-tips.net/archives/2004/20041130.htm

When Outlook is opened, it will not connect to the Exchange server. Instead, Outlook says "disconnected" in the lower right corner, and clicking "Send/Receive" shows error 0x8004011D in the Outlook Send/Receive window. One possible cause of this is if your Exchange/IIS server (both of mine are on the same machine) is using a self-signed SSL certificate.