I\'ve successfully created a new tab and put it next to the pre-existing ones. Then I realized that I\'ll only have one button on it, so it makes more sense (for now) to put it
The attribute idMso
is correct, but the id for the tab you want is TabMail
. You can find a packed set of Excel-files containing lists of Office 2010 control IDs on MSDN. Then, as mentioned in a comment to the question, your sample XML may be missing the customUI and ribbon-tags. (Disclaimer: I haven't customized the ribbon in Outlook, only Word, Excel and PowerPoint, but I would guess they work the same?)
Try something like the this: