Microsoft has released an update to Microsoft Outlook 2002. This update increases performance when you use Outlook 2002 with Instant Messaging integration or when you run Outlook 2002 on a Microsoft Exchange Server.

This article describes how to download and install the Outlook 2002 Update: June 21, 2001.

NOTE: This Public Update is part of the Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 1 (SP-1), but for your convenience the Public Update also is available individually, as described in the "More Information" section of this article. If you already applied Office XP SP-1, you do not need to apply this Public Update. For additional information about the latest service pack for Microsoft Office XP, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

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How to Download the Update

Client Update

If you installed Office XP from a CD-ROM, you have two options:

•	Use the Office Product Updates Web site to automatically install all of the latest updates that includes all available Service Packs and Public Updates. -or-
•	Install only the Public Update by using the steps described later.

Both options require that you have your Office XP CD-ROM available throughout the installation process.

Office Product Updates

To have the Office Product Updates Web site detect the required updates that you must install on your computer, visit the following Microsoft Web site: After detection is complete, you receive a list of recommended updates for your approval. Click Start Installation to complete the process.

Install Only Outlook 2002 Update

Follow these steps to download and install the client update:

1.	Using your Web browser, browse to the following Microsoft Web site: Click here to download the Client Update (http://download.microsoft.com/download/officexpstandard/olk1001/1/win98me/en-us/olk1001.exe)
2.	Click Download Now. Click Save this program to disk, and then click OK.
3.	Click Save to save the Olk1001.exe file to the selected folder.
4.	In Windows Explorer, double-click Olk1001.exe.
5.	If you are prompted to install the update, click Yes.
6.	Click Yes to accept the License Agreement.
7.	Insert your Office XP CD-ROM when you are prompted to do so, and then click OK.
8.	When you receive a message that indicates installation was successful, click OK.

NOTE: After you install the update, you cannot uninstall it.

For more information about the Client Patch, click the link below for the Office Tools on the Web article.

Administrative Update

If you installed Outlook from a server location, the server administrator must update the server location with the administrative update and deploy that update to your computer.

If you are the server administrator, follow these steps to download the administrative update:

1.	Browse to following Microsoft Web site: Click here to download the Administrative Update (http://download.microsoft.com/download/officexpprof/patch/5.0.2919.6304.ol/w982kmexp/en-us/olk1001a.exe)
2.	Download the file to your desktop.
3.	In Windows Explorer, double-click the Olk1001a.exe file.
4.	Click Yes to accept the License Agreement.
5.	In the Please type the location where you want to place the extracted files box, type C:\olk1001a, and then click OK. Click Yes when you are prompted to create the folder.
6.	Click Start and then click Run. Type the following command in the Open box msiexec /a Admin Path\MSI File /p C:\olk1001a\outlook_admin.msp SHORTFILENAMES=1 where Admin Path is the path to your administrative installation point for Office XP (for example, C:\OfficeXP), and where MSI File is the MSI database package for the Office XP product (for example, ProPlus.msi).
7.	After this command line is finished, run the following command line: msiexec /a Admin Path\MSI File /p C:\olk1001a\outlmime_admin.msp SHORTFILENAMES=1
8.	To deploy the update to the client workstations, click Start and then click Run. Type the following command in the Open box msiexec /i Admin Path\MSI File REINSTALL=OUTLOOKFiles,OUTLOOKNonBootFiles REINSTALLMODE=vomus where Admin Path is the path to your administrative installation point for Office XP (for example, C:\OfficeXP), and where MSI File is the MSI database package for the Office XP product (for example, ProPlus.msi).

For additional information about how to update your administrative installation and deploy to client workstations, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: This article contains standard instructions for installing an administrative update.

Or, you can refer to the following article in the Office Resource Kit:

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How to Determine Whether the Update Is Installed

The update replaces the files Outllib.dll and Outlmime.dll. The version of Microsoft Outlook 2002 seen in Help About is updated to 10.2930.2625.

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Issues Fixed in the Update

This update fixes the following issues that are described in these Knowledge Base articles:

Other Issues Fixed in This Release

In addition, the following issues are also fixed:

Moves the Don't Expand Tree in the Folder List Pane to Show the Target Folder
After you use a rule to move a mail item to a subfolder on a local personal folder file (PST), you notice that, when you view the folder list, the destination folder is not expanded.

Plain Text / JIS Message Is Encoded as Quoted Printable
When you send a "Plain Text" message by using the Double-Byte Character set for Japanese, and the message body is only one paragraph in length, the message is encoded as "Quoted Printable". It should be encoded as JIS (7bit).

Outlook 2002 Issues FindRow Every Minute to the Exchange Server
Outlook 2002 sends an RPC request to the Exchange Server every minute. In some cases, this causes a 20 percent CPU usage load on the server. This only occurs when Outlook is idle.

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