Today we are releasing an update to a freeware application used to share Outlook categories between multiple users in the network CodeTwo CatMan v.3.1. Recently, the program was optimized for users of Outlook 2007 who installed the security update MS09-060 issued by Microsoft in October and for this reason experienced a problem sharing public categories. With this update, CodeTwo CatMan becomes capable of sharing categories not only in the local network but also over the Internet. This is done by placing the single public category file, used by the program to update categories on client machines, on an FTP or WWW server.  Now, you will also have a quicker start with the program as you will be able to easily copy your existing private categories to the public pool of categories using drag and dropping functionality. CodeTwo CatMan is  compatible with Microsoft's latest version of operating system Windows 7. Download CodeTwo CatMan CodeTwo CatMan - Version History Other Feewares by CodeTwo

In October Microsoft published the patch for MS Outlook 2007 described in the article KB972363, which installs the security update MS09-060. The update resolves the vulnerabilities in ATL ActiveX Controls. After installing this update the users of our free tool CodeTwo CatMan may experience problems with disappearing of the private categories or with proper displaying the colors of the categories. After installing this update, Outlook 2007 stopped being resistant to frequent operations on the categories from Master Category List and this was the root cause of the problem. To let our users work with the software without problems we have just published the new version of CodeTwo CatMan which has been optimized to operate on categories properly. We advise all CodeTwo CatMan users to upgrade to the latest version available on program website. If you haven't tested CatMan yet, it may be a good time to do it. This freeware lets the users in the network share the categories for all elements in Outlook.

UPDATE: We are sorry, but CodeTwo Public Folders mentioned in this article has been discontinued. You can check the list of currently available CodeTwo products here. If you already use CodeTwo Public Folders for sharing Outlook folders between many computers, or are on an Exchange Server account with some public data stored in the Exchange public folders, you have probably already noticed that Outlook categories are not synchronized by means of these solutions. Luckily, there’s an easy way to sort it out. Long story short, all you have to do to solve this problem is equip your Outlook with a free extension called CodeTwo CatMan, the rest is very easy… CodeTwo CatMan is a smart FREE Outlook add-in that allows sharing Outlook categories across many computers via a local connection or through the Internet. The program can be downloaded at no cost from www.codetwo.com.