Exchange Messaging Outlook
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This is the last EMO issue for 2000. We want to wish you the very best of holidays and hope that all the IT people who were in the office or on call last New Year's Eve get to celebrate the arrival of the real new millenium this year in style. Today's highlights:
Regular features:
Office 10 cuts local store and Office Designer As one Outlook/Exchange developer put it, the folks at Lotus must be celebrating. Microsoft this month quietly announced that two features planned for Office 10 next year won't make it into the box. A Microsoft spokesperson said, "After listening to feedback from beta testers and partners and evaluating the improvements that would be necessary to meet the quality and reliability customers expect from Office, Microsoft has determined that 'Office Designer' and the Local Web Storage System will not be available with Office 10." The Local Web Storage System (LWSS or "local store") was the key client component to work within Outlook both to improve performance for Exchange Server users, but also to make it possible to take Exchange 2000 or "Tahoe" Web Storage System (WSS) applications completely offline. With its loss, Microsoft is back to square one as far as an offline capability for the WSS goes, hurting the pitch for the WSS as a platform for collaborative applications. Office Designer had two potential audiences -- administrators and power users looking for a step up from Outlook's Team Folders add-in and developers who wanted to jump-start their WSS application development. At least one piece of Designer will survive. Office product manager Lisa Gurry says that some of the templates that would have shipped with Designer will be distributed as part of a future version of the Web Storage System SDK. For more on this story, see: Outlook for Macintosh news
No, we don't have any update on the long-awaited release of
"Watson," the next version of Outlook for Macintosh. We do have two
other news items, though. Microsoft cautions that installing Office 2000 Service Pack 2
will make it impossible to manage Exchange Server mailbox rules with
both Outlook 2000 and Outlook for Macintosh. See Outlook/Mac users and the administrators who support them finally have their own newsgroup at news:microsoft.public.outlook.mac. If your ISP doesn't carry it, you can get it directly from Microsoft's news server at msnews.microsoft.com. Could this mean that Watson's release is not far off? Controlling views in Public Folders You created a custom form, published it to a public folder and told everyone about it. What you need to make your folder-based application complete is a good set of custom views. The easiest way to create a new view is to modify an existing view. When you have completed your changes, type the name for your new view into the Current View box on the Advanced toolbar. Outlook will ask you where the view should be used. Make sure you select This folder, visible to everyone. After you have a few views that fit your application well, right-click the folder and bring up its Properties. On the Administration tab, set the Initial View to one of your custom views. The final step is to tell Outlook that you want the folder to use only your custom views. Choose View | Current View | Define Views and check the box for Only Show Views Created for This Folder. Two more things to note:
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New Utilities |
CALLAUDIT Displays Outlook contacts using CallerID and creates new contact records where needed. CallAudit Voice product adds voice mail and fax support. GLOBAL ADDRESS LIST TO OUTLOOK CONTACTS CONVERSION AGENT http://www.cdolive.com/gal2contacts.htm Free sample Exchange Server script to maintain a public Contacts folder that mirrors the GAL, for use with PDA synchronization tools that support public folder sync. From CDOLive. OUTLOOK CALENDAR APPOINTMENT MOVER Moves appointments forward or backward to adjust the dates after you change time zones. OUTLOOK WEB ACCESS ADDRESS BOOK ENHANCEMENT Free sample ASP code to make it possible to browse the Global Address List in Outlook Web Access. From CDOLive. VAKCER PROJECT TRACKER Tracks project time and expenses by automatically watching what programs and documents you open. Available Outlook plug-in creates Journal entries from projects and interfaces with Outlook Contacts. |
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Updated Utilities |
AMIKAWISDOM Version 2.0 of this electronic "mail clerk" adds a number of changes to the way key words and phrases of incoming messages are highlighted. EXCHANGE CENTRAL Version 2.19 adds new methods for excluding appointments from the group calendar view and for updating the view with the local user's free/busy data, plus various fixes. LOOK In Version 3.0 of this group calendar program, the free/busy view can include time public calendar folders and includes many enhancements. New Outlook-like weekly and monthly calendar views include color-coding. New features include export to HTML, show and resolve conflicts, find available time, support for user-defined Outlook forms on the Action menu. Many other new features as well. OUTLOOK CUSTOM FORM LAUNCHER http://www.paulqualls.com/FormLaunch.html Version 2.10 of this free custom toolbar button tool lets you launch web pages and add parameters when you launch .exe files. Also adds support for Outlook 2000 on Windows 2000. WATCH YOUR BACK! Version 4.0 takes this mail utility way beyond managing read receipts to take care of all kinds of Inbox annoyances. It now strips HTML stationery, backgrounds, graphics and scripts and removes and compresses attachments. It can even remove attachments blocked by the Outlook E-mail Security Update. WORLDTRAK Customer relationship management tool in individual, team and enterprise versions, built entirely within Outlook. Version 5.0 adds ties to Microsoft's BizTalk server, a new Outlook interface to both Exchange and SQL Server an enhanced customer support module, and other new features. |
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Other new resources |
EXCHANGE 2000 FAQ From Simpler-Webb. Highly recommended EXCHANGE 2000 SERVER THIRD-PARTY SOLUTIONS Extensive list of companies building applications to run on Exchange 2000 MICROSOFT EXCHANGE 2000 SERVER UPGRADE SERIES PREVIEW Migration guide and tools MICROSOFT.PUBLIC.OUTLOOK.MAC Newsgroup for discussion of Outlook for Macintosh issues. Long overdue. If your local ISP doesn't carry it, you can get it directly from the msnews.microsoft.com news server. TO CREATE A STICKY NOTE FOR A MICROSOFT OUTLOOK 2000 CONTACT
Sample Outlook 2000 VBA code to create a NoteItem from the selected contact. Illustrates how to use the Links collection and how to create a macro that can be launched from a toolbar button in either an Explorer or an Inspector window. |
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Updated Jul 15 2008
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