Exchange Messaging Outlook
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Greetings! Welcome to Vol. 4, No. 6,
of Exchange Messaging Outlook, an occasional newsletter about
Microsoft Exchange, Windows Messaging and Microsoft Outlook, both
for users of Windows 95 and NT 4.0 and for organizations using
Microsoft Exchange Server.
Today's highlights:
Regular features:
Digital Dashboard/Team Folders Microsoft released the long-awaited Digital Dashboard and Team Folders tools last week. Both require Outlook 2000 and take advantage of the "folder home page" feature to put web pages inside the Outlook viewer to collate information from multiple sources. Team Folders is the simpler of the two and requires Microsoft Exchange Server to be of any real benefit. The Team Folders Wizard helps you create Public Folder-based collaboration applications for discussions, shared tasks and other common purposes in just minutes, complete with administrative tools to manage permissions and post news and policies. Download the Team Folders Kit from http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/collaboration/tfwizard.htm. [No longer available for download] Digital Dashboard is a more complex concept, combining information from your own Outlook folders with external Internet data and data from both Exchange Server Public Folders and other internal data sources. However, it does not require Exchange Server to run. Standalone Outlook users can modify and run the sample dashboards in Microsoft's kit. The real power of this tool, though, is as a knowledge viewer to present corporate data. For a good introduction, see http://www.microsoft.com/DigitalNervousSystem/km/DDoverview.htm. Also included in the Digital Dashboard kit are detailed instructions for modifying and deploying customized Outlook Today pages. The kit is a 9mb download from http://www.microsoft.com/DigitalNervousSystem/km/DDSK.htm, but you can also order it on CD. Both kits include and make extensive use of the Outlook View Control, an ActiveX control that displays Outlook views on an Outlook form, in a folder home page or in a VB or VBA application. This control even allows you to set filters to display only certain information -- something you cannot do programmatically in a regular Outlook view. The one missing piece is a Selection object to allow you to perform operations on items that the user currently has selected in the view. Microsoft has been holding free TechNet seminars on Digital Dashboard and Team Folders around the U.S. Visit http://www.microsoft.com/technet/events/fall/tnq20011.htm to see when one might be in your neighborhood. Exchange Server 5.5 Service Pack 3 Service Pack 3 for Exchange Server 5.5 was also released earlier this month, including the usual post-SP2 hotfixes plus a few new features. The most exciting new feature is the Mailbox Manager, a fully supported tool for managing the size of user mailboxes. See our writeup at http://www.slipstick.com/exs/exs55sp3.htm for download and other details. The Mailbox Manager is included in the Sp3_55ss.exe file. SP3 is also available on CD, with Outlook 2000 included. Say Hello at MEC I'm hoping to meet many of you at the Microsoft Exchange Conference next week in Atlanta, either at my pre-conference workshop, on on the exhibit floor or in one of the sessions. I'll be checking mail on the conference communications network. Maybe it will even allow me to make my calendar public, so you'll know where I might be lurking! The day-by-day schedule is now available at http://www.microsoft.com/corpevents/mec99/monday.html, so you can start planning your time. In addition to the Atlanta and Hamburg, Germany MECs, Microsoft has also added MEC in Tokyo for the Japanese audience and in Singapore for Asia as a whole, both in November. See http://www.microsoft.com/singapore/mecasia99/ and http://www.sbforums.co.jp/mec99/ for more details. Teach Yourself Outlook 2000 Programming source I have posted the source code for my book, Teach Yourself Microsoft Outlook 2000 Programming in 24 Hours, at http://www.slipstick.com/books/tyo2kp.htm. The PST file that you download includes both sample code and the forms and templates used in the book's examples. You can order the book itself online at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=067231651X/cdolivthepremier/ if it isn't available at your local bookstore. Microsoft Outlook 2000 E-mail and Fax Guide I'm pleased to announce that my other Outlook 2000 book, The Microsoft Outlook 2000 E-mail and Fax Guide, will be published in December by Digital Press, one of the leading publishers of books on Exchange Server. I hope to have online ordering details available soon, along with a detailed table of contents for you to check out, so watch the http://www.slipstick.com/books/user.htm page. If you're attending MEC in Atlanta, you should be able to examine some sample chapters and order it through the bookstore there. In the meantime, if you don't have copies of my earlier books on Microsoft Exchange and Outlook from Duke Press (now 29th Street Press), you can order them for 60% off the cover price from www.29thstreetpress.com/29thstreet/CATBOOKS.cfm?NextSub=23&NextCategory=2 while supplies last! More housekeeping hints The housekeeping hints in the last issue of EMO generated a big response. Many of you have some great ideas for keeping the size of your folders under control. Add these to the seven from the previous EMO issue: 8. Turn off automatic journaling if you don't need it. 9. If you connect to Exchange Server 5.5, ask the administrator if Deleted Item Retention is enabled and learn how to use the Recover Deleted Items command. This feature lets you restore items even when they have been deleted from your Deleted Items folder and may help you feel more confident in deleting items from your mailbox folders more aggressively. 10. If you use Personal Folders and Personal Address Book files, know where they're located and back them up frequently. Microsoft offers a PST backup tool for Outlook 2000 users. It's listed on our http://www.slipstick.com/addins/housekeeping.htm page. 11. Maintain data for various projects in their own sets of folders in your mailbox if you're on Exchange Server or in a separate Personal Folders .pst file if you're not. When you're done with the project, disconnect the PST file or export everything from the mailbox folders to a separate PST file. Then file the PST somewhere safe for archive purposes. Thanks to our sponsors The Slipstick Systems site upgrade not be possible without our sponsors. These companies have been generous with their support, and we look forward to continuing our association for some time to come. Please check out the products and services they have to offer:
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New and Updated Utilities |
Office Resource Kit core tool set
Outlook 2000 Modify Profile Utility Outlook TCO Migration Utility Outlook 2000 Forms Administrator Outlook 2000 Existing Items Converter OST Integrity Check Tool for Outlook 2000 SMARTDL Personal Message Store Export Utility Sales Project Tracking Cellular Exchange Calendar Cellular Exchange Phonebook Picante for Outlook MAPIVue Detective eDate OLIMEX Fentun NEXOR Defender for Motif
OProfile
My Reality Bar
SINTAS Exchange Central
ForKeeps Relayer |
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ISSN 1523-7990 |
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Updated Apr 07 2008
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