Be sure and stop by Cabana 9 and say hello and if you don't have a
"Don't Worry be MAPI" button, ask for one. I have a limited number
still available for newsletter subscribers, but you will need to ask
for it.
Sue Mosher's Birds of a Feather Outlook Power Users session was
great and I picked up lots of pain points to cover in future
versions of EMO. Thanks to everyone who attended.
The big news in the Exchange server world is the upcoming release of
Exchange 2003 SP2 and a feature that will be removed from a "next version" of Exchange Server.
Exchange Server 2003 SP2 will be available later this year and
includes some wonderful improvements. One of the best will be an
increase in the store size for Exchange standard and Small Business
Servers. The 16 GB limit is being increased to 75 GB. Thanks
Microsoft! On the user side, this could mean administrators will
raise the mailbox limit for users and reduce the need for
autoarchive to PSTs.
Smartphone and Pocket PC users will have a better experience, with
mailbox items being pushed to the device over an HTTP connection.
Administrators will be able to remotely wipe a lost device and
control the number of failed logon attempts. For more information on
SP2, see
http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/downloads/2003/sp2/overview.mspx.
It's been rumored for several years that the "next version of
Exchange" would replace public folders with Sharepoint. That "next
version" has finally on the board - Exchange 13 is not expected to have
public folders. Migration tools will be available to help make it be
less painful, but as a site with many mail-enabled public folders
hosting mailing lists, I'm not sure at this point if Sharepoint will
be the best solution. Shared calendars and contacts work well in
Sharepoint because you can subscribe Events (Calendars) and Contacts
lists to Outlook. In fact, if you have Sharepoint and Outlook 2003,
you should begin migrating to it.
If you're not familiar with Sharepoint's capabilities in this area,
take a look at XSOLive.com. Login using visitor as the username and
password and you'll be able to add new contacts or calendar items in
Sharepoint and download the calendar and contacts to Outlook 2003.
It even supports email alerts when new items are added. (Yes, the
site is named for Exchange server vaporware.)
One of the great things about TechEd is that it gives me a chance to
pick up great ideas for future columns, both from attending sessions
and talking to attendees in the Cabanas Ask the Expert areas. The
Outlook table is in the Portals cabana and we're getting lots of
great questions.
One attendee had this problem:
"We use Outlook 2003 and my users aren't very good at adding email
addresses to the Contacts folder and rely heavily on the
autocomplete cache, but it gets replaced often. Why does it seem so
fragile?"
Read Complete article...
Another question that came up involves the maximum number of
autoformatting rules available in a view:
In Tools/Organize, you can choose a color to display a message from
a specific sender when messages are received in Inbox. I'm getting
the message: "You can not add another color rule because you have
extended the maximum number of rules in this folder."
There is a limit of 50 autoformatting rules per view. If you need
more, options include combining the rules what use the same color or
use some other method to keep the number of rules below 50. Because
autoformatting creates a rule in Views, you could create several
different views and switch between them. If you show the Advanced
toolbar, you can use the Views tool to quickly switch views.
RSS
