Exchange Messaging Outlook
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Greetings! Welcome to Vol. 8, No. 8, 7 Aug 2003, of Exchange Messaging Outlook, a biweekly newsletter about Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Outlook. Today's highlights:
Regular features:
MSN to provide Outlook sharing solution Late last month at a gathering of financial analysts, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates revealed that the next version of MSN will include a mechanism for sharing calendar and contacts with other MSN subscribers and managing that data, along with MSN mail, from within Outlook. A demonstration of the "Outlook Connector" component showed that it will also allow Outlook users to work with their MSN data offline. This ought to sound very familiar. Offline access and limited data sharing were supposed to be key elements of "Hailstorm," a strategy officially known as "Microsoft .Net My Services" that would have provided individual consumers with such subscription services using .NET-based XML web services. Microsoft ended the Hailstorm initiative in April 2002 amid concerns over identity security and privacy. I haven't been able to get any further details from Microsoft, but it sounds to me like some of the Hailstorm technology may have been reengineered as part of MSN. My hunch is that this new "connector" will actually be a separate transport that populates a local cache of MSN data in a Personal Folders .pst file, synchronizing the data between Outlook and MSN over the Internet using XML web services. Using some kind of web services sync to share Outlook data is an idea that a few of us have been kicking around for some time now. Also unclear at this point is exactly what kind of subscription service will include the Outlook Connector and MSN data sharing. CNet's interview with Microsoft Vice President Yusuf Mehdi, who runs MSN, reported at http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/5055448.htm, suggested that the new MSN would be a separate offering designed to appeal to people who already have a broadband connection and don't want to use MSN for dial-up access. If you're truly curious, you can watch the 6-minute demo in the Gates presentation. It's the Bill Gates "Integrated Innovation" webcast linked from http://www.microsoft.com/msft/speech/FY03/archivemtg2003.mspx -- fast forward it to about 22:00. You can't live without us! PC World magazine has named the Slipstick Systems Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center one of the top 101 "essential sites, services, and tools you didn't know you couldn't live without," in the Computer Help category. You can read the whole story at http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,111109,pg,2,00.asp. This is the second honor for us in 2003, PC Magazine earlier having rated Slipstick.com one of the "Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites." OutlookCode.com more user-friendly While we're tooting our own horn, we'd like to announce that our site for Outlook developers at http://www.outlookcode.com, originally launched in October 2002, has just completed Phase II of its development. The changes are subtle but have already made the site a more lively place for Outlook programmers to share code, ideas, and war stories. If you're a registered user, you can opt to receive an update by email each time someone adds a comment to one of your forum posts or code samples. Registration is free and won't result in spam hitting your mailbox; we never share our address list and will send you only those newsletters you specifically ask for. Another little improvement is that you can click on column headings in the forum lists to see the most recently active topics or those with the most responses. Many thanks to our friends at TerraLink (http://www.terralink-global.com) in the U.S. and in Moscow for their assistance with the site development, using ASP.NET. Exchange Update for Entourage Microsoft has released a free Exchange Update for Entourage X (http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/entouragex/entouragex.aspx?pid=exchangeupdate) to allow Office X or Entourage X standalone users to connect to Microsoft Exchange. Features include:
Going forward, Entourage will be the primary Exchange client for Macintosh. Microsoft does not plan further development of the separate Outlook client for Macintosh. More Mac and UNIX client news Two other recent developments related to non-Windows Exchange clients: Snerdware (http://www.snerdware.com/) announced AddressX, the first component of a suite of tools for Exchange access from Macintosh systems. AddressX is a free tool to import contacts from the Exchange Global Address List to the Macintosh OS X address book and keep them updated automatically. The company is also beta testing a calendar tool for viewing and sharing schedules with Outlook users, even in organizations with no Exchange Server. Novell has acquired Linux software developer Ximian (http://www.ximian.com), whose offerings include the Gnome desktop, Mono (a forthcoming version of Microsoft's .Net framework), and the Evolution personal information manager. Evolution looks a lot like Outlook and includes a connector for Exchange. Novell says it plans to add an Evolution connector for its Groupwise mail and collaboration server and, according to http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,4248,1210100,00.asp, port Groupwise to Linux. Outlook connector for Notes update due Microsoft is working with IBM to release a new version of the Outlook Connector for Notes that will add support for Outlook 2003 and add support for Lotus Domino Release 6 messaging server. The new connector will support both Outlook 2002 and Outlook 2003, and we expect to see it after Office 2003 ships. For information on the existing connector (and the new one when it becomes available), see http://www.slipstick.com/addins/services/enterprise.htm#lotusnotes. |
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New Utilities |
ADDRESSX http://www.snerdware.com/addressx/ Free tool providing access to the Exchange Global Address List from within the Macintosh OS X address book. EXCHANGE UPDATE FOR ENTOURAGE X INBOXSHIELD OOF-ADMIN OUTLOOKSYNC PROPHET 2004 SCALIX |
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Updated utility |
CUMULATIVE PATCH FOR OUTLOOK EXPRESS http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms03-014.asp Update for OE 5.5 and 6.0 that also affects rendering of HTML messages in Outlook or later. Important for avoiding infection with the Mimail virus, unless you are using a version of Outlook with the Email Security Update. MATADOR NEWSGATOR OUTLOOK HELPDESK OUTLOOK RESPONDER OUTLOOK SPEAKS! PLAXO CONTACTS SOPHOS MAILMONITOR FOR EXCHANGE |
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Other resources |
EXCHANGE 2003 DEPLOYMENT FUNDAMENTALS http://www.windowsitpro.com/articles/index.cfm?articleid=39489 Planning, changes, and deployment essentials for the newest version of Exchange. |
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ISSN 1523-7990 |
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Updated Jul 30 2006
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