Exchange Messaging Outlook
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Greetings! Welcome to Vol. 7, No. 13, 29 Nov 2002, of Exchange Messaging Outlook, a biweekly newsletter about Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Outlook. Today's highlights:
Regular features:
Holidays on the horizon With barely a month before the start of the new year, you may have looked ahead to 2003 and discovered that your Outlook Calendar folder contains no holidays for that year or beyond. While Outlook has always provided a list of holidays you can import, the dates for each version are limited. Outlook 2002 includes holidays through 2005, but Outlook 2000 has holidays only through 2002. Users of that and earlier versions will need to get their 2003 holidays from some other source. For national or religious holidays that fall on the same date each year, a simple solution is to take this year's instance and convert it to a recurring item. Just open the item, click the Recurrence button, and set up a yearly recurrence pattern. To add holidays with changeable dates, you'll need a source of correct dates. We've listed several at http://www.slipstick.com/addins/calendar.htm#dates. Some use the same format as the outlook.txt file that Outlook includes (outlook.hol in Outlook 2002). Others use the Internet iCalendar standard or provide a comma-delimited file that you can import. If you want to dig deeper into holiday issues, the page at http://www.slipstick.com/calendar/holidays.htm suggests ways to distribute holidays within your company and remove duplicates from your Calendar folder. It also has links to Microsoft Knowledgebase articles listing errors in the outlook.hol holiday list that shipped with Outlook 2002. No more Outlook for Macintosh? One of the questions asked several times in the Outlook sessions at MEC last month was whether Microsoft is planning to issue a new version of Outlook for Macintosh with the same look and feel as Outlook 11. At this point, we don't know what the user interface will look like, but there is Outlook news for Mac users. Responsibility for the Outlook:Mac product has moved from the Outlook group to the Macintosh business unit. The current plan is to build Exchange connectivity into the Entourage client, producing a single email and PIM client that can connect to both Exchange and Internet servers and run on OS X without using the Classic environment. There will be no further development on the Outlook 2001 code base. New Internet Explorer Updates We've updated our list of key Internet Explorer patches to include the two latest, both of which could provide a way for malicious content to execute in an HTML format message. Bulletin MS02-065 (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS02-065.asp) is rated critical and is concerned with a problem with the Microsoft Data Access Components. Microsoft recommends that it be applied to both web servers and end users' machines. MS02-66 is the November 2002 Cumulative Patch for Internet Explorer (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS02-066.asp). At least one of the vulnerabilities addressed by this update could be used in an HTML mail message, although it would have no effect if Outlook is running in the Restricted Sites zone. New at OutlookCode.com Share code and join in the discussions at our new Outlook developers site at http://www.outlookcode.com. New in the past couple of weeks:
MSN Messenger's Outlook Issue MSN Messenger 5.0, the latest version of this instant messaging application, is not compatible with Outlook 2002's feature that allows you to check the online status of your contacts. The Microsoft Knowledgebase article at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=332014 explains how to install an earlier Messenger version if you need to retain the Outlook functionality. |
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New Utilities |
EASY TRACK CRM http://www.easytrackcrm.com/ Customer relationship management application with Outlook look and feel and built-in report writer. Automatically synchronizes appointments, contacts, and tasks with Outlook. Uses MSDE or SQL Server database. EXCHANGE PERMISSION MANAGER OUTLOOK SALESFORCE.COM CONNECTOR POP3 ARX CONNECTOR UPSHOT |
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Updated utilities |
ATTACHMENT OPTIONS http://www.slovaktech.com/attachmentoptions.htm Version 1.8 of this tool for adjusting the attachment blocking feature adds support for Outlook 2000 SP3. AUTOREAD FOR OUTLOOK BUFFER OVERRUN IN MICROSOFT DATA ACCESS COMPONENTS COULD LEAD
TO CODE EXECUTION EMAIL TEMPLATES NOVEMBER 2002 CUMULATIVE PATCH FOR INTERNET EXPLORER SIX DEGREES XENOS OUTLOOK FILE RESTRICTION EXTENSION |
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Other new resources |
BUILT-IN OUTLOOK 2000 ICON ID MAP http://www.outlookexchange.com/articles/toddwalker/BuiltInOLKIcons.asp FaceID values and matching images for all built-in icons available for use on Outlook (or Office) toolbars. |
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