Exchange Messaging Outlook
Volume 5, Number 11

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.

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.

VSI-FAX
http://www.vsi.com/
Fax server includes an Outlook MAPI client component.

Zetafax
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.

CyberSecretary
http://users.erols.com/wheindl/cybersecretary/
"Virtual office assistant" for Outlook 2000 to keep track of appointments and tasks, manage Outlook mail and perform other functions.

HPC Notes
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.

My Outlook Calendar
http://toshwin2ks/slipstick/addins/gallery/index.htm
Customizable Word template for generating and printing Outlook weekly and monthly calendars. This new version fixes problems related to Office 2000.

PocketMirror
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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Updated Jun 08 2011

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