With this issue of Exchange Messaging Outlook, we move to a new
list provider -- eGroups.com, which also hosts our discussion lists
for Outlook users (
You're getting this issue in plain text for several reasons. More
and more people are using addresses from web-based mail providers,
such as Hotmail, to subscribe to newsletters. Those providers often
can't handle the Outlook rich-text format that EMO has used in the
past. Even though we know many people still use Outlook 97, which
does not support the HTML mail format, we will send future issues in
HTML format. (Outlook 97 users will see the HTML content as an
attachment.) eGroups offers registered users the option to choose
their mail format, and we urge you to take advantage of that
feature. To register, just visit
http://www.egroups.com. Registration
will also let you set your EMO subscription to "web-only" when you
go on vacation, so your mailbox is a little less full when you get
back.
We also plan to use the eGroups chat function to set up some
scheduled chats for EMO subscribers on Exchange and Outlook issues.
If you have a hot issue that you think would make a good topic, drop
us a line at
If you prefer not to register at eGroups, that's fine, too. You
will still receive the EMO newsletter. If your interests change, you
can send a message to
We've been using eGroups for our discussion lists for a year and
a half now and are happy with the flexibility that eGroups offers
and the responsiveness of their support team to list managers. They
take care to ensure that addresses can't be harvested by spammers (
FYI, if this message has a small advertisement at the top of it,
we apologize. eGroups is supposed to remove their ads from this
newsletter, but may not have completed that process. We didn't want
to wait any longer to send you an issue that is already somewhat
delayed. Switching to eGroups should allow us to stick to a regular
schedule for EMO, since we'll have fewer list management issues to
worry about and can spend more time bringing you the latest Outlook
and Exchange news.
MEC 2000 Solutions Awards winners
A five-member judging panel, representing both Microsoft and
third-party analysts and trade publications, named winners in eight
categories at the Microsoft Exchange and Collaboration Solutions
conference this month in Dallas. We congratulate these MEC 2000
Solutions Awards winners:
Another highlight of MEC was the unveiling of the next version of
Microsoft Outlook, currently codenamed Outlook 10. Outlook 10 is
slated for release in "the latter part of the first half of 2001,"
according to one of the Microsoft presenters, and will ship as part
of the next version of Office. It addresses some longstanding
deficiencies and overhauls the architecture to improve connections
to e-mail servers. Among the features that gathered the most
applause at the session on Outlook 10 were:
Color coding for calendars
A Cancel button in the startup dialog for choosing whether to
work online or offline against Exchange Server
Support for Hotmail and POP/IMAP and Exchange Server accounts
A single Reminders window showing all currently active
reminders
Meeting acceptance buttons at the top of the preview pane
Our page at
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol10.htm lists more
of the features announced for Outlook 10 and includes more detail on
the big architectural change -- addition of the Local Web Storage
System, a desktop version of the Web Storage System in Exchange 2000
that turns Outlook 10 into an offline web applications platform and
offers much improved synchronization with Exchange 2000.
More new Microsoft products unveiled
Microsoft announced three other new products at MEC:
Tahoe A portal, document management, collaboration and search
server. Does not require Active Directory. Beta 2 is available for
download.
http://www.microsoft.com/servers/tahoe/
Office Designer Rapid development tool for building applications for the Web
Storage System. Coming in the next version of Office in 2001. I
gave a session on Designer with Randy Byrne, and we feel it's a
really exciting tool that finally begins to deliver on the ideas
we've seen in Team Folders and Outlook Web Access.
http://www.microsoft.com/PressPass/features/2000/oct00/10-10mec.asp
Microsoft Mobile Information Server Desktop, enterprise and commercial carrier application to give
mobile users browse and notification access to Exchange and other
data.
http://www.microsoft.com/servers/miserver/default.htm
New Utilities
DesertFish Roamer
http://www.ashemimry.com/
Tracks the SMTP servers you need to use from
different locations and makes it easy to switch between them.
Enterprise Vault
http://www.kvsplc.com/
Policy-driven archiving system for Exchange
Server providing automatic archiving of older content, content
indexing for web-based search and PST archive migration. When
mailbox and public folder items are archived, shortcuts are left
in the mailbox so that users can still access the items without
looking in a separate store.
Intelligent e-protection Suite for Exchange 2000
http://www.group-technologies.com
Tool suite for Exchange 2000 provides anti-virus protection,
disclaimers, spam and junk mail filtering, content-based
filtering, PGP and S/MIME encryption, encrypted archival storage
and mail forwarding.
Pop3Hot
http://pop3hot.bizland.com/
Free tool to download mail from HotMail account
so that you can access messages with Outlook or any POP mailer.
PostCryptum
http://www.postcryptum.com/
Encrypts messages with a pass phrase. The
recipient also needs to be running PostCryptum.
TeamScheduler 2000
http://www.group-technologies.com
Outlook 2000 group calendar view tool. Requires
Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 or Exchange 2000. Will support
offline viewing in Outlook 10.
VCatch
http://www.vcatch.com/home.html
Free program to check incoming mail and files for
viruses. The virus list is automatically updated.
http://www.equisys.com/
Fax server that either integrates with any
standard POP/SMTP server or operates an Exchange Server gateway.
Includes Outlook forms for sending and receiving faxes. Outlook
users can also monitor the status of sent faxes.
Updated Utilities
80-20 Retriever
http://www.80-20.com/
Personal search portal for Outlook 98 and 2000. Provides full-text
searching of all messages and attachments. Automatically creates
folders for correspondence with Outlook contacts. Was Personal
Knowledge Portal.
http://www.phatware.com/
Version 3.04 of this synchronization tool for Pocket PC and
Windows CE devices adds support for synchronizing multiple Outlook
folders.
http://www.chapura.com/
Version 3.0 of this synchronization utility for Palm devices adds
many new features to the Professional version, including improved
task synchronization, converting Outlook subfolders to Palm
categories, filter by category, and synchronization of public
folders. The Standard version also gets a few updates.
Other new resources
MSDN Online Web Storage System Center
http://msdn.microsoft.com/wss/
Resource center for developing applications for Exchange 2000,
"Tahoe" and Outlook 10. Be sure to download the Web Storage System
Tools, including the awesome Web Storage System Explorer.
WebStorageD2D.com
http://www.wsd2d.com/Application/Default.asp
Developers-to-developers site for Exchange 2000 Web
Storage System applications. What makes it special is that it is an
Exchange 2000 application, built in just three weeks.
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