Exchange Messaging Outlook
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Big changes for EMO 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 ( http://www.egroups.com/group/outlook-users/ or mailto:outlook-users-subscribe@egroups.com) and Outlook developers (http://www.egroups.com/group/outlook-dev/ or mailto:outlook-dev-subscribe@egroups.com). Until recently, we'd been content to manage EMO with some ingenious Outlook-based tools, but we've outgrown them! Our growth in the past few months has been nothing short of phenomenal. When EMO celebrated its fourth anniversary in May 2000, we tallied 2,200 subscribers. Today, this issue of EMO is going out to more than 3,700 people and Exchange public folders!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 mailto:emo@slipstick.com.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 mailto:emo-newletter-unsubscribe.com@egroups.com to unsubscribe. If you know someone else who would like to receive this newsletter, they can subscribe by sending a message to mailto:emo-newsletter-subscribe@egroups.com, then responding to the confirmation message that eGroups sends out.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 ( http://www.egroups.com/help/members.html#3). We've taken the extra step of restricting access to the EMO member list only to the people at Slipstick.com who manage our lists. You can also read the eGroups privacy policy at http://www.egroups.com/info/privacy.html.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:
Outlook 10 preview 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:
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:
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New Utilities |
DesertFish Roamer Tracks the SMTP servers you need to use from different locations and makes it easy to switch between them. Enterprise Vault 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 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 Free tool to download mail from HotMail account so that you can access messages with Outlook or any POP mailer. PostCryptum Encrypts messages with a pass phrase. The recipient also needs to be running PostCryptum. TeamScheduler 2000 Outlook 2000 group calendar view tool. Requires Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 or Exchange 2000. Will support offline viewing in Outlook 10. VCatch Free program to check incoming mail and files for viruses. The virus list is automatically updated. VSI-FAX Fax server includes an Outlook MAPI client component. Zetafax 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. |
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Updated Utilities |
80-20 Retriever 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. CyberSecretary "Virtual office assistant" for Outlook 2000 to keep track of appointments and tasks, manage Outlook mail and perform other functions. HPC Notes Version 3.04 of this synchronization tool for Pocket PC and Windows CE devices adds support for synchronizing multiple Outlook folders. My Outlook Calendar Customizable Word template for generating and printing Outlook weekly and monthly calendars. This new version fixes problems related to Office 2000. PocketMirror 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. |
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Other new resources |
MSDN Online Web Storage System Center 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 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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ISSN 1523-7990 |
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Updated Jul 15 2008
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