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Exchange Messaging Outlook
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Greetings! Welcome to Vol. 5, No. 20, of Exchange Messaging Outlook, a biweekly newsletter about Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Outlook. Today's highlights:
Regular features:
Please note: the links contained in this article were accurate as of the date of this publication. We cannot guarantee the accuracy at a later date. Preview Office XP and Outlook 2002 While supplies last, Microsoft is distributing the Office XP Professional with Microsoft FrontPage Corporate Preview Beta, which includes the next version of Outlook -- Outlook 2002. MSDN Universal subscribers will get it in their March shipment; TechNet Plus subscribers in April. Everyone else can order it now for $19.95 from https://microsoft.order-1.com/officecpp/. We strongly recommend that you install this beta only on test systems. Two other things to note: Outlook 2002 includes all the features of the Outlook E-mail Security Update. And, you must be connected to the Internet to activate Office XP using the new anti-piracy protection scheme in this version. This beta expires August 31, 2001, and Microsoft provides no product support. Use at your own risk ... but have fun! New Outlook vulnerability patch Microsoft has posted patches for Internet Explorer 5.01 SP1 and 5.5 SP1 to resolve a "Malformed vCard" vulnerability in Outlook. This vulnerability could allow a malicious sender to run code on your system. See http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms01-012.asp for more details. By the way, you won't find this patch for Outlook listed on Microsoft's Office Update site at http://www.officeupdate.com. It's one of several security patches related to the web components in Outlook (those shared with Outlook Express) that need to be updated with a download for Internet Explorer. Yet, despite the risk that these security loopholes present, Microsoft continues to omit information about these patches from the Office Update site and doesn't include them in Office Auto Update Notification Service mailings. Given Microsoft's strong actions on security, such as the Outlook Email Security Update, we don't understand why Office Update shouldn't provide a complete list of patches affected Outlook, both those from the Office team and those from the IE team. Just so you don't have to scour Microsoft for these patches, we keep a complete list at http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/antivirus.htm and http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/htmlmail.htm. Redeeming the Outlook E-mail Security Update We have documented many ways to get around the attachment blocking feature of the Outlook E-mail Security Update (http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup/getexe.htm), but until now there was no workaround for the "object model guard" except to recode your program with Extended MAPI. The object model guard inhibits access to the address book and message sending by presenting a dialog box where the user must authorize access. For some applications, like mass mailings, this pretty much kills the application. Now a new developer toolkit, Outlook Redemption (http://www.dimastr.com/redemption/), provides a safe way for your Outlook code to run without triggering the object model guard dialogs. It also adds some capabilities that the Outlook object model does not provide, such as getting the sender's e-mail address, opening a saved message .msg file and directly accessing the rich-text content of an Outlook item. |
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Please note: the links below were accurate as of the date of this publication. We cannot guarantee the accuracy at a later date. For the most up-to-date information, please visit our Add-ins section and search for the product name. |
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New Utilities |
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Updated utilities |
ACTIVE FOLDERS http://www.c2c.com/ Version 2.6 adds a Permissions Manager feature to this Exchange Server administration and usage analysis tool. Permissions Manager allows an administrator to find and reassign mailbox and folder permissions. The update also includes performance and reporting improvements. OUTLOOK SPY SECURITY UPDATE SIMPLESYNC WATCH YOUR BACK! |
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DIGITAL DASHBOARD RESOURCE KIT 2.2 http://www.microsoft.com/business/digitaldashboard/WhatsNewDD.asp Version 2.2 of the kit updates the SQL Server Dashboard. OUTLOOK REDEMPTION TAKE A FIRST LOOK AT OFFICE XP PRODUCT EVALUATION GUIDE TO COPY FILE ATTACHMENTS FROM ONE ITEM TO ANOTHER |
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Updated Apr 29 2009
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