| This page lists what's new in the world of Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft
Outlook utilities and resources in the past month or so. Dates in parentheses
on each item indicate when it was added to this list, not necessarily when it
was released. Most recent items are at the top of each category.
New Utilities|
Updated Utilities|
Administrator Resources|
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New Utilities | | Presdo | Presdo takes the hassle out of trying to find the best time to get together with people. Use Presdo to minimize the annoying ping pong of email, texting, and voicemail when organizing the next team lunch or trying to grab coffee with a friend. Presdo exports events to popular calendar programs including Microsoft Outlook, Google Calendar, Yahoo Calendar and Apple iCal. (May 14) |
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| | | Message Pad for Outlook | Message Pad for Outlook replaces phone message pads, Post-It Note or bits of paper for your phone messages. Messages can be picked up remotely using email enabled mobile devices. Workgroup management to allow office groups to maximize productivity (requires Microsoft Exchange). Fully integrated with Outlook. Free evaluation. (Apr 30) |
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| | | Mirracrypt Encryption for Outlook | Mirracrypt integrates seamlessly with Outlook 2003 & 2007 to provide powerful Sender-to-Receiver Email Encryption that is convenient and easy-to-use. Mirracrypt is the perfect add-on program for any Outlook user who requires privacy & security. (Apr 28) |
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| | | Outlook True Archive | Select Items based on Received Date, Sent Date, Last Modified Date. Copy, Move or Delete items. Select Source PST and Destination PST. Respect or ignore the "No Archive Flag" (Apr 24) |
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| | | Major Change | MajorChange.com is a web-based application designed to allow you to coordinate the change management process within your IT environment. MajorChange.com assists you in introducing effective controls on all changes pertaining to your IT systems and services. These controls help to ensure successful change implementations while minimizing the occurrence and severity of unexpected service issues and outages. (Apr 24) |
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| | | Password Control/Bulk Password Control/Bulk Modify | For helpdesk staff its a simple interface for resetting AD passwords, disabling, enabling and unlocking accounts. For system admins, its a bulk password reset tool. Bulk Modify tool to change attribute values for many user accounts. (Apr 24) |
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| | | Account Management Spreadsheet | This program is designed to provide a quick and effective method of creating a large quantity of user accounts. In comparison to Microsoft's own bulk import tool, csvde, this program is easier to use and supports some options that are unavailable in csdve. Create user accounts and exchange mailboxes, if required. Option to create work areas with custom NTFS security applied. Support for most common user attributes. Configure group membership Enable/Disable user accounts. (Apr 24) |
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Updated Utilities | | OfficeCalendar | Share Microsoft Outlook calendar, contact, and task information with this affordable Exchange alternative. Makes Outlook calendar sharing and Outlook group calendar scheduling easy. Works with Microsoft Outlook 2000, 2002, 2003, and 2007. OfficeCalendar creates Outlook calendar share folders under each users main calendar folder along with a Outlook group calendar. Free trial is available. (May 5) |
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| | | Data Fields Manager for Outlook | Data Fields Manager for Outlook allows users to perform mass modifications to contact fields in Outlook. You can add, remove, capitalize, build, clear, paste, trim and much more with the click of a button. Compatible with Outlook 2000, 2002, 2003, and 2007. Version 6.1 (Apr 30) |
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| | | Category Manager | Category Manager allows sharing of color categories; it adds a sidebar to the folder view as well as opened items, in which you can group your categories and assign them lightning fast; and it adds a reminder, which optionally prompts you if you forget to assign a category. There's a lot more, please click the link for the complete list of features. (Apr 30) |
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| | | Lookeen | Lookeen offers lightning fast search for email in all Stores. Reduce time for organizing and filing Outlook items. Supports Outlook 2003 and 2007. Many bug fixes and small improvements Version 1.2.1.700 (Apr 29) |
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| | | ActiveSend 2007 | Messageware ActiveSend 2007 enables Microsoft Office & other desktop applications to use OWA like Outlook. Send files with one-click File SendTo/MailTo commands. Toggle between OWA, Outlook and Outlook Express. Attach multiple files to an OWA email in seconds. Free evaluation software available. (Apr 28) |
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| | | Mobiliti | Use Mobiliti to synchronize and backup files from any source to any destination including external drives, FTP, or WebDAV locations. While not limited to backing up your Outlook data, you can use it for unattended and transparent backup and synchronization of large Outlook files in seconds, including at startup, shut down, when logged to the network, or any time, via any type of connection. The real time synchronization ensures that source and destination files are always in sync. Basic, Plus and Enterprise versions available. Version 7.1 (Apr 24) |
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| | | Open Relay Filter Enterprise Edition | ORFEE has SURBL blacklist support, greylisting, tarpit delay, and automatic sender whitelist for improved spam filtering. ORFEE supports filtering emails on arrival, which allows delivery path analysis, keyword and attachment filtering and Attachment and keyword filtering so you can drop emails with malicious attachments or replace the attachments with a customizable warning text. Both the keyword and the attachment filtering support using Perl-compatible regular expressions and are Unicode-aware. E-mails caught by the On Arrival filtering point can be dropped, redirected or tagged (header or subject). ORFEE includes a built-in log viewer which allows easy browsing, searching and filtering the logs. Version 4.1 (Apr 7) |
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Administrator Resources | |
| | | Update Rollup 5 for Exchange 2007 | This update addresses the following issues: The recipient information in an e-mail message incorrectly contains the character string "%40" in the address instead of the at sign (@) in Exchange Server 2007 (KB 940051) Non-English characters in the meeting description field are replaced by question marks when an Exchange Server 2007 user opens a meeting invitation that was sent by a Lotus Notes user (KB 940058) (Oct 29) |
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| | | PDF spam – a step ahead of image spam | This white paper, written by GFI, explains what makes spam such an unbearable problem and how spamming tactics are evolving daily to beat anti-spam software. The latest tactic is to use the common PDF file format to send image spam. By using PDF attachments to send images instead of embedding them in the body of the email message, spammers have taken the cat-and-mouse game with anti-spam software developers to a new level. (Aug 9) |
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| | | Office 2003 Service Pack 3 Administrative Template (ADM), OPAs, and Explain Text Update | Included are updated Group Policy Administrative Template files, OPA files, and an updated Microsoft Excel workbook that lists the Administrative Template policy settings and OPA settings. The following updates are included:
Policy settings that provide the ability to block file format settings to prevent users from opening or saving specific file types and file formats in Microsoft Office Excel 2003, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003, and Microsoft Office Word 2003. An updated Excel 2003 workbook (Office 2003 Group Policies.xls) that describes policy settings listed in the various Administrative Template and OPA files. It supports changes to the Office 2003 SP3 policy settings. This update replaces the previously available Office 2003 Service Pack 2 Administrative Template (ADM), OPAs, and Explain Text Update download. (Jul 26) |
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| | | White Paper : OWA Security Issues Undetected by ISA Server | A new white paper released by Messageware identifies often overlooked security risks for organizations running OWA, even with ISA Server installed. Learn about what OWA security issues are undetected by ISA, test your organization’s environment for security vulnerabilities and learn how to add an additional layer of security to OWA to prevent unauthorized users from accessing email accounts. (Jul 24) |
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| | | Availability Manager for Exchange | Quest Availability Manager for Exchange provides the ability to detect when an email outage has occurred, and rapidly switch users automatically to a defined Exchange server/store where they will continue to have send/receive mail capabilities. (Jun 20) |
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| | | Spotlight on Exchange | Spotlight on Exchange helps administrators detect problems in their Microsoft Exchange environment, quickly diagnose exactly where and what the problems are, and resolve the problems from a single easy-to-use interface. (Jun 20) |
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Development Resources | |
| | | Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Auxiliary Reference | This reference contains conceptual, reference, and code sample topics to guide you in developing solutions using MAPI and Outlook APIs that are exposed outside of the Outlook Object Model. Available online or download. (Oct 31) |
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| | | IMIMSP32 | The IMIMSP32 is a sample message store that uses Microsoft Office Access 2000/2003 MDB or Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005 (incl. Express Edition) as backend store. (Oct 16) |
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| | | DELPHI Sample Message Store | Sample message store project, based on an old Microsoft example for building a Message Store. The message store is based on the file system. Each folder is a directory and each message is a file. Additional files hold properties of folders and of the message store itself. Supports all versionsof Outlook, including Outlook 2007. Also available: DELPHI Peer Transport Provider and DELPHI Flat File Address Book Provider. (Oct 3) |
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| | | IMI ADODB ExMAPI Address Book Provider | Knowing both ADO and Extended MAPI very well one may develop one's own design of MAPI Service Provider that would unify them. We started off with the easiest to implement but also most commonly used Service Provider - Address Book. The current version included in the project consists of two parts - an Administrative part and the Address Book Provider itself. In the administrative part one can create new entries (contacts) in the database that will be accessible afterwards in Outlook through our Address Book. (Aug 22) |
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| | | Redemption | Supports Outlook 2007. This update contains many new features and bug fixes. See Redemption history for a complete list of changes in this build. Version 4.4.0.714 (Jul 30) |
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| | | Outlook 2007 Primary Interop Assembly Reference | The Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Primary Interop Assembly (PIA) Reference provides help for developing managed applications for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. It extends the Outlook 2007 Developer Reference from the COM environment to the managed environment and focuses on how to use the PIA. (Jul 26) |
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Other Resources | | Exchange Server Protocols | MSDN documentation of Microsoft Exchange Server Protocols. This documentation provides specifications for protocols that are implemented in the Microsoft Exchange Server system software and that are used to communicate with other products. (Apr 8) |
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| | | Exchange Server 2007 Training Videos | Learn Exchange Server 2007 by watching it Configured on a Live Network. Exam Coverage for MCTS 70-236: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Configuration (Feb 27) |
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| | | Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 1 | Office 2007 SP1 is now available. Along with security updates, and all previously released fixes, this update fixes calendar printing errors and a spell check bug in Outlook 2007 RTM. (Dec 11) |
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| | | Microsoft Active Directory Topology Diagrammer | The Active Directory Topology Diagrammer reads an Active Directory configuration using ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), and then automatically generates a Visio diagram of your Active Directory and /or your Exchange 200x Server topology. The diagrams include domains, sites, servers, administrative groups, routing groups and connectors and can be changed manually in Visio if needed. (Oct 5) |
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| | | Update for daylight saving time changes in 2007 for Exchange 2003 | This update addresses the daylight saving time (DST) changes in 2007, is for use with servers running Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) and the time zone update for Windows. An update for Exchange 2000 or 5.5 will not be made public because both versions are no longer supported, administrators will need to contact their account manager for more information.
(Jan 31) |
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