Exchange Messaging Outlook
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Greetings! Welcome to Vol. 8, No. 6, 10 Jul 2003, of Exchange Messaging Outlook, a biweekly newsletter about Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Outlook. Today's highlights:
Regular features:
Exchange 2003 RTM Microsoft announced last week that Exchange 2003 has been released to manufacturing. As usual, the main Exchange page at http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/ has details on the new product itself and on different options for evaluating it. Not only can you download a 120-day trial version, but you can also sign up for a free 7-day trial of the new Outlook Web Access, which comes closer than any previous version of OWA to duplicating the Outlook desktop interface and functionality. OWA vulnerable to cross-site scripting? An article posted this week at http://www.net-security.org/vuln.php?id=2806 suggests that Outlook Web Access in Exchange 2000 may be susceptible to a "cross-site scripting" attack in which a user's domain credentials could be stolen through a browser vulnerability. For more information on the concept of cross-site scripting, see http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=113 for a paper from security intelligence firm iDEFENSE Labs. Outlook 2003 Beta 2 Technical Refresh Office 2003 beta testers can download the "technical refresh" for Beta 2 (B2TR) at http://officebeta.microsoft.com/officeupdate/default.aspx?CTT=6. You can either choose to have your system checked for available updates or just download the refresh directly. You must already have Beta 2 installed on your system. Business Contact Manager (BCM) for Outlook 2003 is a separate download that includes the full product, not just a patch. If you have been using BCM from Beta 2, you will need to remove it first through Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs, before you install the B2TR version of BCM. (Install Office 2003 B2TR first, then BCM B2TR.) IMPORTANT: The BCM B2TR database is not compatible with the Beta 2 data structure. Before upgrading, export your Accounts and Business Contacts so that you can import them later into B2TR. The beta provides no way to migrate history and opportunities. Outlook 2003 answers the frequent request for name resolution that works more like Outlook Express -- specifically an "auto-complete" feature that allows you to type in one or two characters and have Outlook suggest recipients that you've used recently. Most of the time, this feature works well, although sometimes it may suggest an old address that's now invalid. In that case, you can clear the name from the auto-complete list by selecting it and pressing the Del key. Using my Tablet PC, I discovered another nice twist to the auto-complete feature. When I tap in the To box with the Tablet PC stylus, Outlook 2003 pops up a list of people I have recently sent messages to. It appears to be either the most recent or the most frequently used recipients. (Often those overlap, so it's hard to tell.) I have not found an equivalent feature for non-Tablet users yet. One warning goes with this feature, though: I found that I had selected the wrong recipient on two messages. Let that be a lesson that picking recipients might not be such a good thing if you're doing email in the passenger seat of your car with the sun's glare making the Tablet PC screen difficult to read. Open source server + paid MAPI provider = Outlook collaboration OGo (http://www.opengroupware.org/) joins the list of Outlook-compatible collaboration solutions aiming to provide an alternative to Exchange. It is an open source server providing contact, calendar, tasks, and document sharing and other collaboration features (not including mail) to Outlook and other clients. Outlook support is via the ZideLook MAPI store provider from http://developer.skyrix.com, which uses MAPI over WebDAV. New Outlook developer tools Outlook developers can check out two new tools designed to produce better Outlook applications. Outlook Plus Events (http://www.asm-soft.com/Products/outlook_plus_events.htm) tweaks the events that fire when an item or folder is added, removed, or changed. Of particular interest is the ability to get a remove event that passes the EntryID of the item or folder being removed. The second new tool, from http://www.bizboxsoftware.com/, is called Outlook Architect. You can apply to the beta at the company's web site. It provides a toolkit for creating web pages that can function either as Outlook folder home pages or in Internet Explorer. The tool provides a variety of common user interface elements, including a search control and toolbars. You can also use them in Visual Basic projects related to Outlook. As with the old Team Folders Kit, Outlook Architect allows you to create one folder home page that can be shared across several different folders in an application. It has some time-saving features, like automatically displaying tabs for switching among multiple folders on the same level in the folder hierarchy. Team Folders resurfaces The download for the Team Folders Kit, although no longer supported by Microsoft, has resurfaced at http://download.microsoft.com/download/exch55/team/2000/WIN98/EN-US/oltfKit.exe. Get it before it disappears again. Team Folders, for the uninitiated, is a free tool for creating public folders with attractive, functional Outlook folder home pages. If you're using Outlook 2002, make sure you are up-to-date on service packs, since the initial release of Outlook 2002 included an insecure version of the Outlook View Control that Team Folders uses. For more information on Team Folders, see http://www.slipstick.com/dev/teamfolders.htm. Exchange a factor in Army's huge Microsoft order Large account reseller Softmart has landed what may be the largest order ever for Microsoft products -- $78 million the first year, with five one-year options, valuing the total contract at between $450 and 478 million dollars, according to various press reports. In addition to software for 494,000 desktop computers, the Army will obtain licenses for 5,000 Exchange servers. |
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New Utilities |
DISRUPTOR OL http://www.hlembke.de/prod/disruptor/ Multi-modal anti-spam tool for Outlook 2000. Uses word and regular expression filters, blacklists, whitelists, real-time blackhole lists, Bayesian filters, character set filtering. Works with all kinds of Outlook accounts. Can convert RTF and HTML messages to plain text, remove external image links, and provide access to files that Outlook security blocks. INBOXER INBOXRULES INETSOFT CALENDAR KEYSUITE OGO PUBLIC FOLDER UTILITY TRANSEND MIGRATOR |
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Updated utilities |
OUTLOOK CRM http://www.teamscope.com/outlook/ Version 2.0 of this customer relationship management tool for Exchange and Outlook eliminates security prompts, improves performance, tracks leads separately from contacts, improves reporting capability, supports RTF and HTML replies, and makes many other changes. POLICY PATROL ENTERPRISE SQLVIEW |
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Other resources |
EXCHANGE 2000 POSTMASTER@IP AND ABUSE@IP MAILBOXES http://www.msexchange.org/pages/article.asp?id=570 How to add special email addresses to your Exchange Server domain in order to comply with requirements of some realtime blackhole list sites. OUTLOOK PLUS EVENTS New code sample at http://www.outlookcode.com:
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ISSN 1523-7990 |
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Updated Jul 30 2006
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