Exchange Messaging Outlook
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Greetings! Welcome to Vol. 6, No. 11, of Exchange Messaging Outlook, a biweekly newsletter about Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Outlook. Today's highlights:
Regular features:
New patch for Exchange 2000 SP1 OWA vulnerability Microsoft has issued a patch for a vulnerability in Exchange 2000 Outlook Web Access that could allow a denial of service attack. You need to install SP1 before installing this patch. See Microsoft Security Bulletin MS01-049 at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-049.asp. See you at next week's conferences! I look forward to seeing old friends and meeting EMO readers at next week's MEC conference in Orlando and the Office Developer Connections conference in Scottsdale, AZ. This Sunday, at 4 p.m, at the Windows 2000 magazine booth (#127) at MEC, I'll be giving a short presentation on the tightened security features in Outlook. The talk will include a demonstration of the third-party Redemption library that programmers can use to avoid the "object model guard" security prompts. Thursday and Friday, I'll be in Arizona to present sessions covering Outlook security, Outlook reports, and what's new for developers in Outlook 2002. You can register for the Office Developer Connections conference at http://www.msofficeconnections.com. MEC session preview With more than 200 sessions and 11 hands-on labs to choose from at MEC in Orlando next week, you may find it difficult to decide which to attend. You'll have plenty of opportunities to learn about .NET Web Services and other new products. But since this newsletter is about Exchange and Outlook, we went through the list to highlight some potentially great sessions on what makes Exchange 2000 tick, especially if you're planning a migration from an earlier Exchange version or have recently moved to Exchange 2000 and want to make sure you're doing everything right:
You may also want to check out these hands-on labs:
On the development side, the range of sessions runs from introductions to technology to hard-core how-to. Consider attending these:
Hands-on lab opportunities include:
Finally, for Outlook, these sessions stand out:
More on the Nimda virus Last week's issue of EMO discussed the dangerous Nimda virus, which apparently will cost many companies heavily in lost productivity and time spent in cleanup. Locally, here in suburban Washington, DC, Fairfax County had to shut down dozens of servers used by residents to handle county business until they could be cleaned. Microsoft tells EMO that some Nimda-infected messages are appearing with Readme.eml as the attachment, not Readme.exe. The .eml file is an HTML message that automatically launches an attached Readme.exe file if you are not protected from the IFrame vulnerability. Outlook with the Email Security Update protects against opening an .exe file from within an Outlook message, but doesn't provide protection for .eml messages, which open in Outlook Express. (Outlook Express 6.0, by the way, offers an option to add attachment blocking. It comes with the new Internet Explorer 6.0.) We've updated our Outlook anti-virus suggestions at http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/antivirus.htm Future Outlook features? Pssst. Microsoft, if you want to know what features Outlook users would like in the next version, just take a look at the new features recently announced at http://www.microsoft.com/PressPass/press/2001/Sep01/09-19EntouragePR.asp (if the link breaks across lines, you'll have to edit it to remove the line break) for the next version of Entourage, the personal information in Office for Macintosh. Two in particular stand out as features that Outlook (Windows) users have wanted for a long time:
Office v. X for Macintosh will be available in November. |
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New Utilities |
121 AGENT http://www.121agent.com/ Family of mail products to manage both incoming and outgoing mail. Handles your incoming mail by checking and updating addresses, adding new contacts, sending personalized responses, and filing the email according to your criteria. Performs merges to e-mail, fax and Word. Synchronizes contacts folders with external databases, and de-dupes multiple contacts lists. Maintains a global list of Outlook categories. EXPRESS CLICKYES IMI GAL MODIFY LITURGICAL CALENDAR METADATA ASSISTANT ENTERPRISE MOBILE OFFICE FOR MS EXCHANGE SMARTARCHIVE SQLVIEW 2000 FOR MICROSOFT OUTLOOK |
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Updated utilities |
OUTLOOK CONTACTS SCRUBBER http://www.teamscope.com/free_utilities.htm Version 1.2 of this free tool for cleaning up duplicate contacts supports merging categories and other keywords fields, handles custom fields and forms, and does drag and drop. VOICENOTIFY |
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Other new resources |
EXCHANGE 2000 DEVELOPER ENABLEMENT KIT https://microsoft.order-1.com/ex_developer The kit contains the latest Exchange SDK, information on developing .NET XML Web Services with Exchange 2000, a full-featured 90-day evaluation version of the IT Factory Development Center, plus other articles and resources. Not available for download. PROJECT 2000 + EXCHANGE 2000 INTEGRATION ARTICLES SIMPLIFY OUTLOOK |
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ISSN 1523-7990 |
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Updated Apr 07 2008
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