Exchange Messaging Outlook
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Greetings! Welcome to Vol. 6, No. 25, 10 Apr 2002, of Exchange Messaging Outlook, a biweekly newsletter about Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Outlook. Today's highlights:
Regular features:
XML Web Services kit for Exchange Microsoft kicked off its annual Tech*Ed conference today with a push for Exchange-based XML Web services working with .NET applications. In his keynote, Eric Rudder, senior vice president of Microsoft's Developer and Platform Evangelism Group, announcing immediate availability of a 3-CD toolkit to make it easy to connect to Exchange 2000 data from .NET applications. The kit includes:
You can order the Exchange 2000 XML Web Services Toolkit from http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/techinfo/development/2000/enablekit.asp -- $7.95 for U.S. customers, $9.90 for everyone else, plus a little extra if you want express delivery. The kit will not be distributed as part of MSDN subscriptions, except for the Exchange SDK. Adding a pop-up message for Exchange DLs I was asked a few months ago whether it's possible to prompt users whenever they send a message to an Exchange distribution list. I've posted an Outlook VBA code snippet at http://www.slipstick.com/dev/code/promptdl.htm that demonstrates how to do this with the Redemption library (http://www.dimastr.com/redemption/) to avoid Outlook automation security prompts. Would it be possible to do the same thing, but for an Outlook distribution list, not an Exchange DL? No, because Outlook automatically expands the DL when you send the item. By the time it gets to the ItemSend event, there's no trace in the message that it was ever addressed to an Outlook DL. Instead, however, you could check the number of recipients and cancel the send if the item is addressed to too many people. Shared address book with Active Directory Another question that's come up lately is how to use the Active Directory (AD) in Windows 2000 Server as a shared address book for Outlook, even if you don't have Exchange Server. While implementing AD in a large organization is something you wouldn't want to undertake without weeks of planning, in a single small office with only Windows 2000 Server, it's not that big a chore. Microsoft has published a wealth of documentation at http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/technologies/directory/ad/default.asp. You can't create or modify items in AD with Outlook, but you could create a web page to manage the directory on the company intranet using the ADSI programming interface. The article "Learning ADSI - Part 1: Adding Users To W2K" at http://www.15seconds.com/issue/011005.htm is a good introduction; it assumes you already know how to build .asp pages on your web server. Another reason to implement AD is that it allows you to apply group policies to Outlook and other Office applications, for example, to turn particular features off. Once you have AD up and running and populated with the contacts you want to share, the Microsoft Knowledgebase has a good article, "How to Configure the Address Book to Query Users Contained in Active Directory" at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=238007 on how to connect a client. The article is written mainly for Outlook Express, but Outlook 2000 and 2002 also support LDAP. As the instructions for "down-level" clients indicate, you may have to enter domainname\username for the account name. Instead of port 389 normally used by LDAP, use port 3268 for the server's Global Catalog. Note that if the number of users entered in AD is large, users won't be able to browse the entire list. Instead, they'll have to search using the Find button in Outlook's address book. Mark your calendar for MEC The October dates for MEC (the conference formerly known as the Microsoft Exchange Conference) look pretty firm. The Anaheim/Orange County Convention Center in California lists it for October 9-12, which is close to the October 7-11 dates that we've heard rumors about. The convention center says they expect 5,000 attendees. |
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New Utilities |
ADDRESSENDER.COM http://www.addressender.com/ Online address book service that keeps other members of the service updated with changes in your contact information. Includes storage of your Outlook contacts online . Available in a free personal version, plus professional and corporate editions. ASONE ONLINEBACKUP FOR EXCHANGE ASONE SECURITYSTORE FOR EXCHANGE ASPECT ADAPTER FOR MICROSOFT EXCHANGE 2000 DIGITAL PEN IDENTAFONE MULTI-LINE IDENTAPOP LOOKMEUP MMSCAN 2000 OUTLOOK ATTACHMENT SNIFFER OUTLOOK XP UNLOCKER QWIKQUOTE THEATTACHER WEBEVENT TEAM WORM DETECTOR |
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Updated utilities |
CATRAP http://www.ornic.com/actions/catrap.shtml Version 1.3 of this Rules Wizard custom action for extracting data from incoming messages adds new processing options and the ability to automatically create a task or appointment. Also updated to resolve a problem that kept custom actions from working with Outlook 2002. MCAFEE GROUPSHIELD FOR EXCHANGE 5.5 |
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Other new resources |
CUSTOMIZE THE WAY OUTLOOK STARTS BY USING COMMAND-LINE SWITCHES
http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/2002/articles/OlCommandLineSwitches.aspx Comprehensive list of command-line switches for Outlook 2002. Many also work with previous versions, but test to be sure. EXCHANGE SDK DOCS AND SAMPLES MARCH 2002
FIXING PROBLEMS RECIPIENTS HAVE WITH YOUR OUTLOOK 2002 MESSAGES
WORKING SM@RT WITH MICROSOFT OUTLOOK |
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ISSN 1523-7990 |
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Updated Apr 07 2008
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