Exchange Messaging Outlook
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Greetings! Welcome to Vol. 5, No. 23, of Exchange Messaging Outlook, a biweekly newsletter about Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Outlook. Today's highlights:
Regular features:
Office XP in stores May 31 Microsoft Office XP, which includes Outlook 2002, will be available in retail stores May 31. If you just can't wait, you can order a 30-day trial copy of Office XP Professional from http://www.microsoft.com/office/trial/ (or your local Microsoft web site if you're not in the U.S. or Canada). If you buy Office 2000 or any individual application during the next few months, you can upgrade to a comparable Office XP suite or application at no charge. See http://www.microsoft.com/office/xp/techguarantee.htm. This offer is available in the U.S., Canada, and Australia, and may also be offered by Microsoft in other countries. If you have an older copy of Office 2000 or Office 97, Microsoft has upgrade pricing on the different suites. Office 95, however, does not qualify for an upgrade. If you're using Outlook 2002, you'll probably want to download a special COM add-in by my fellow Outlook MVP Ken Slovak that allows you to unblock .exe and other file attachments in Outlook 2002. This is not a hack -- it's a feature Microsoft built into Outlook 2002, only Microsoft provided no user interface. Ken steps into the gap with a nice application that adds an Attachment Security Options page to the Tools | Options dialog. You can download it from http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup/getexe.htm#addin. Farewell to Net Folders, MS Fax, and MS Mail Amid the good news about new and improved features in Outlook 2002 is the less publicized information that some key components are no longer supported. Perhaps the most likely to be missed is the Net Folders feature that was introduced with Outlook 98 to provide a way to share Outlook data without Exchange Server. Microsoft is pushing the new SharePoint Team Services feature in Office XP as an improved collaboration platform, but it's no substitute. SharePoint Team Services does not replicate data with Outlook automatically; it requires manual import and export. It also requires a web server, where Net Folders needed only that participants be able to exchange e-mail. That made Net Folders, even though occasionally unreliable, ideal for small offices or distant collaborators. Other features that did not make it into Outlook 2002 include support for Microsoft Fax, Microsoft Mail (including the workgroup postoffice), and the cc:Mail service included with Outlook 2000. Some of the best features from the Internet Mail Only mode in Outlook 2000 have also fallen by the wayside -- sharing the address book with Outlook Express, export/import of Internet mail settings, using the Nickname field to resolve addresses, and automatically adding addresses to the Contacts folder. At http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2002/missing.htm, we've posted some possible alternatives to make up for the lack of basic non-Exchange sharing in Outlook 2002 and detailed information on the other missing features. New HTML mail vulnerability targets Java Microsoft has issued an update for Outlook 2000 to tighten permissions on the Microsoft Java virtual machine to prevent malicious Java code from running in an HTML message. However, the update at http://office.microsoft.com/2000/downloaddetails/o2kiefrm.htm requires the Outlook E-mail Security Update or Office 2000 SP-2, so not everyone may want to install it. Apparently, you can get the same security by updating the Internet security settings manually. The article at http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q291/7/91.asp tells how. As far as we can tell, it's also a good idea for Outlook 98 users to follow the steps to change the permissions. Latest Outlook-related viruses Your system cannot become infected by either of these viruses unless you open the file that the virus sends as an e-mail attachment to propagate itself: I-WORM.BADTRANS I-WORM.MATCHER SharePoint Portal Server RTMs Microsoft has released SharePoint Portal Server to manufacturing and announced support for SPS by 13 systems integrators (see http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2001/Mar01/03-28SPSPR.asp). SPS should not be confused with the similarly named SharePoint Team Services in Office XP. SPS is a multi-functional server, providing a digital dashboard, indexing and search, document management, and the Web Storage System for applications development. The estimated price is $3,995 per server and $72 per client user. |
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New Utilities |
ATTACHMENT OPTIONS COM ADD-IN FOR
OUTLOOK 2002 DIGIPASS EMAIL ANNOUNCER EVA FESTECH SALES FORCE AUTOMATION UNISENT |
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Updated utilities |
EMAIL TEMPLATES SCOUT |
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MICROSOFT OFFICE XP DEPLOYMENT AND
ADMINISTRATION MICROSOFT OFFICE XP RESOURCE KIT OFFICE XP DEPLOYMENT BLUEPRINT OFFICE XP DEVELOPER CENTER - OUTLOOK 2002 TO SET THE STORAGE FOLDER FOR AN OUTGOING
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ISSN 1523-7990 |
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Updated Apr 07 2008
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