Exchange Messaging Outlook
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Greetings! Welcome to Vol. 7, No. 18, 19 Feb 2003, of Exchange Messaging Outlook, a biweekly newsletter about Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Outlook. Today's highlights:
Regular features:
Exchange support for Entourage promised for summer As reported in EMO last November (http://www.slipstick.com/emo/2002/up021129.htm), Microsoft plans to build Exchange connectivity into its Entourage mail and personal information manager for Macintosh. With a announcement last week, Microsoft has begun to reveal the details. An update this summer will add free/busy lookup to Entourage for Exchange calendar sharing. Other new features will include search for the Global Address List and better rendering of messages sent from the Windows version of Outlook. We have also learned that Entourage will essentially become the official Mac OS X client for Exchange with the same standing as Outlook 2002 for Windows and Outlook 2001 for Mac OS 9: An Exchange client access license will allow an organization to install Entourage without the need to buy a separate Entourage license. (Coincidentally, Entourage just recently became available as a standalone program. Previously, it was available only as part of the Office v. X suite.) Team Folders kit officially discontinued Microsoft has finally made it official: A new Microsoft Knowledgebase (MSKB) article at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=814413 explains that the Team Folders kit has been discontinued and that no support is available for existing Team Folders installations beyond a few articles already in the MSKB. If you're a TechNet subscriber, hold on to your December 2000 client CD, which contains the original Team Folders kit. It's instructive, if just for seeing some of the things you can do with a folder home page in Outlook. I have never been satisfied with Microsoft's explanation of the demise of Team Folders, which provided a set of very functional web pages to make Exchange public folders easier to use. The download was pulled after a severe security vulnerability was found in Outlook 2002's implementation of the Outlook View Control (OVC). Contrary to initial reports, the Outlook 2000 OVC included with the Team Folders Kit did not have the same security problem, although the Outlook 2000 version was updated to suppress a function that could make an unwary user think that data was missing. The Outlook Email Security Update did make some Team Folders functions more difficult to use, but the Team Folders kit itself never presented any security risk that I've been able to determine. My guess is that Team Folders never had a real champion inside Microsoft. Once SharePoint Team Services (STS) came along in Office XP and was widely adopted inside Microsoft for workgroup-level collaboration, the idea of using Exchange public folders, even with a fancy HTML interface, was doomed. Unfortunately, as good as STS is -- and I like it a lot -- Microsoft has yet to demonstrate that it understands that the utility of STS is limited by its lack of Outlook integration. Even in Outlook 11, you'll get just read-only access to STS contacts and calendar with no way to merge existing Outlook contacts and appointments into an STS site. Yet, the KB article on Team Folders boldly concludes, "All the most important features that are provided in the Microsoft Outlook Team Folders kit are now better served by Microsoft SharePoint Team Services." Private appointments still not 100% hidden to delegate If privacy is a big concern in your organization and you use Exchange 2000, you may want to consider installing the January 20, 2002, messaging database fix, also known as Information Store Patch 6389.0. The MSKB article at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=326373 explains a situation in which an Outlook 2000 delegate can see another user's private appointments, even if you've applied Office 2000 Service Pack 2 or 3, which fixed another known problem with viewing private appointments. Information about the store patch is available at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=329882 . This post-SP3 Exchange patch fixes a number of other issues, many of them related to Outlook client hangs or other errors. New at OutlookCode.com Our newest web site, http://www.outlookcode.com, provides a place for the Outlook developer community to discuss Outlook programming issues and share code. Since the site's launch in October, more than 1400 people have registered at the site. Visitors (both registered and unregistered) have posted nearly 800 messages on 275 different topics. The code sections are rated for beginner, intermediate, and advanced users. Recent code posts include:
You might also want to weigh in with your opinions in these discussions:
This is a free site that welcomes everyone interested in Outlook programming, from absolute beginner to seasoned expert. Many thanks to our partner, TerraLink USA (http://www.terralink-global.com), for developing the site to run on ASP.NET and SQL Server 2000. Another Exchange monitoring tool Neo's thoughts in the last issue of EMO on monitoring Exchange traffic prompted mail from one administrator suggesting that we add WebSpy (http://www.webspy.com) to the list. What they liked about WebSpy was the integrated approach of e-mail and firewall / proxy reporting in a single package. We're interested in your experience with Exchange monitoring tools. Write us at emo@slipstick.com. |
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New Utilities |
@SMS PERSONAL OUTLOOK http://www.alphaobjects.ch/English/atsms_po.htm Tool for sending SMS messages using a subscription service. Allows you to mix SMS addresses with other address types in a single message. DATEDEX JOURNAL DUPLICATES ELIMINATOR LBE SYNCHRONIZER FOR MS OUTLOOK LISTGRABBER LUNAR PHASE CALENDAR ENTRIES MAIL CATCHER MAILAMP MAILFILE OUTINDEX OUTLOOK ATTACHMENTS EXTRACTOR OWA TOOLKIT POST DUPLICATES ELIMINATOR WEB RESPONSE GRABBER WSREVERSE VIEW |
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Updated utilities |
GROOVE WORKSPACE http://www.groove.net/ Version 2.5 of this workgroup collaboration software extends Outlook integration to allow publication of Outlook appointments, mail messages, and contacts to Groove and copying of Groove calendars back to Outlook. NEW MAIL NOTIFIER OUTLOOK PERMISSIONS ADD-IN OUTMERGE SMARTDL |
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Other new resources |
DIRECTORY SERVICES AND ADSI DISCUSSION LIST http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ADSIANDDirectoryServices/ Covers not just Active Directory, but also LDAP and NetWare Directory Service, among others. Aimed at developers using all languages, including .NET, to develop both Windows and web-based business applications that use directory services. HOW TO PREVENT AND REMOVE OUTLOOK DUPLICATES |
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More Information |
ISSN 1523-7990 |
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Updated Jul 30 2006
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