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Exchange Messaging Outlook
Volume 5, Number 15 |
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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:
- Office 10 cuts local store and Office Designer
- Outlook for Macintosh news
- Controlling views in Public Folders
Regular features:
- New utilities
- Updated utilities
- Other new resources
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
http://office.microsoft.com/2000/articles/O2Ksp2Macintosh.htm
for more on this compatibility issue. The recommendation is that you
stick with Service Release 1/1a if you need Outlook/Mac rules
access.
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:
- Users can still create their own views and customize your
views, saving their versions locally. But they can't create new
views for others to see unless they have Owner permission on the
folder.
- Users can add any fields to the view that are visible in the
Field Chooser. As a practical matter, this means that Outlook
doesn't provide any field-level security.
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New Utilities
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CALLAUDIT
http://www.mtnsys.com/
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
http://www.planetsoftware.com.au/planet2/maf.html
Moves appointments forward or backward to adjust
the dates after you change time zones.
OUTLOOK WEB ACCESS ADDRESS BOOK ENHANCEMENT
http://www.cdolive.com/owaaddressbook.htm
Free sample ASP code to make it possible to
browse the Global Address List in Outlook Web Access. From
CDOLive.
VAKCER PROJECT TRACKER
http://www.vakcer.com/index.html
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
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Updated Utilities
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AMIKAWISDOM
http://www.amikanow.com/
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
http://www.ms-add-on.com/
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
http://www.symprex.com/
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!
http://www.grinningshark.com/
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
http://www.worldtrak.com/index2.html
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
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EXCHANGE 2000 FAQ
http://www.swinc.com/resource/e2kfaq.htm
From Simpler-Webb. Highly recommended
EXCHANGE 2000 SERVER THIRD-PARTY SOLUTIONS
http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/thirdparty/E2Ksolutions.htm
Extensive list of companies building applications to
run on Exchange 2000
MICROSOFT EXCHANGE 2000 SERVER UPGRADE SERIES PREVIEW
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/exchange/guide/default.asp
Migration guide and tools
MICROSOFT.PUBLIC.OUTLOOK.MAC
news: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
http://www.slipstick.com/dev/code/linkstickynote.htm
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
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