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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:
- Holidays on the horizon
- No more Outlook for Macintosh?
- New Internet Explorer Updates
- New at OutlookCode.com
- MSN Messenger's Outlook Issue
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:
How have you made use of code libraries for Outlook development?
http://www.outlookcode.com/threads.aspx?forumid=4&messageid=60
What's the future of Outlook development -- COM, .NET, digital
dashboards, all of the above?
http://www.outlookcode.com/threads.aspx?forumid=2&messageid=63
Print appointment with attendee status -- code sample
demonstrating how to use Word for custom Outlook printing tasks
http://www.outlookcode.com/codedetail.aspx?id=37
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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