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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 our database, not necessarily when it was released. Most recent items are at the top of each category.

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New Utilities

MultimapAdd maps to your meeting requests, contacts, and emails. Simply click add map and the new map selection window will pop up. (Nov 11)
 
gwabbitgwabbit is an Add-in for Microsoft Outlook and the BlackBerry that finds, gwabs and adds contacts from your emails to your Outlook address book with a single mouse click. (Nov 10)
 
ContactGenie Duplicate Contact ManagerContactGenie Duplicate Contact Manager for Outlook '2000-'2007. Remove Outlook/Exch contact duplicates selecting any fields as duplicate criteria. Custom forms/fields fully supported. Preview duplicates prior to update or process automatically. Scan single or multiple folders. Delete or move duplicates to designated folder. Manually merge individual field information from duplicates with designated primary contact. Over-ride keep/delete status. CG-DCM is also a fully integrated function of ContactGenie Toolkit. (Nov 10)
 
Outlook to OutlookOutlook to Outlook moves email, contacts, and calendar items quickly and easily from your PC running Microsoft Outlook to your new PC running Microsoft Outlook. (Nov 3)
 
DigiScopeDigiScope allows for rapid navigation to any mailbox or folder within an Exchange Offline EDB, PST file, or Live Production Exchange Server enabling Administrators to quickly search, recover, undelete, export, or migrate data. Opens any unmounted Exchange database or PST. Supports Exchange 5.5, 2000, 2003, & 2007. (Oct 29)
 
Reply all with AttachmentsReply all with Attachments allows users to reply to all with attachments. For Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010, requires .Net Framework 3.0 and Visual Studio Tools for Office system 4.0 Beta 1. (Oct 22)
 
Toltec ConnectorThe Toltec product suite offers groupware functionality with Microsoft Outlook using Open Source servers. Share calendars, contacts, task, mails, etc. between Outlook and Outlook, Outlook and other Kolab-XML clients like Kontact and Horde. No Microsoft Exchange needed. (Oct 15)
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Updated Utilities

Messageware OWA 2010 for Exchange 2010Messageware's OWA Print, ActiveSend and AttachView--which are now compatible with Exchange 2010. Messageware OWA Print is the first and only quality printing solution for OWA and OWA Light, Messageware ActiveSend allows users to easily send files using OWA and Messageware AttachView significantly extends the functionality of OWA’s WebReady Document Viewing feature. (Nov 19)
 
MailscapeNow supporting Blackberry Enterprise Server, Mailscape is a systems management tool that assists Exchange Administrators in monitoring, maintaining, and load balancing Exchange and BES. Mailscape’s dashboard provides Administrators with vital information about each server’s current health and growth rate to facilitate proactive Exchange management. Mailscape includes many new and enhanced reports to help administrators to optimize system performance and senior executives to make well-informed planning and budgetary decisions. Version 4.5 (Nov 19)
 
Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST RepairStellar Phoenix Outlook PST Recovery Software is designed to repair and restore data from damaged or corrupted Microsoft outlook file. This Outlook recovery software scans the damaged .pst file and extracts and saves information in a new usable .pst file, enabling PST Recovery. In addition, Phoenix-Outlook mail recovery software allows you to recover accidentally deleted messages that have been emptied from the "Deleted Items" folder in Outlook. Repairs PST files with size greater than 2GB. Version 4. (Nov 19)
 
SimpleSYNSimpleSYN provides synchronization of Outlook data on several computers. All the e-mails, notes, tasks, appointments, contacts, deletions and folders are updated and immediately available on all computers. SimpleSYN is flexible in its setup with the direction and mode of the synchronization (new, changed and deleted elements) set individually for each Outlook folder. This means you can synchronize changes of the Outlook data in only one direction or, for example, sync new e-mails only. Free trial available. Version 2. (Nov 17)
 
ContactGenie ToolkitContactGenie Toolkit - 25 functions for Outlook '2000-'2007 enabling changes to individual standard and custom fields; standardization for Message Class (free function), CompanyName, FileAs, EmailDisplayAs, Fullname, SelectedMailingAddress fields; contact and NK2 info export; user-defined field name changes; manage orphan user-defined fields; global changes for CompanyName, Company Address, Email and Web addresses. Preview/override any pending changes. (Nov 10)
 
HelpDesk for Outlook and SharePointHelpDesk for Outlook and SharePoint combines Outlook and SharePoint and takes advantage of the best of both Microsoft products. Support e-mails are converted to SharePoint list objects, manually or automatically. Any SharePoint List template can be used. Powerful, integrated reporting and statistics tool facilitates business intelligence. Useful for all kinds of issue tracking and user support. Works with Office Live Small Business. (Nov 10)
 
CCS HelpDeskCCS Help Desk leverages the power of Exchange Server, Outlook, and the Web to bring you a simple, efficient and effective help desk, customer support and ticket tracking system. It is ideal for companies and organizations that are overwhelmed by user or customer requests and issues. Support requests are entered through Outlook, the Web or email, and then are assigned and tracked. The resolved tickets are kept in an Exchange public folder and can be reviewed if a similar issue arises again. Available in Pro, Standard, and Lite versions. Version 4.2 (Nov 10)
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Administrator Resources

Office 2010 Beta availabilityOffice 2010 Beta is now available to TechNet Plus and MSDN subscribers. (Subscription not required to access Office 2010 documentation.)
TechNet - Office Home | MSDN - Office Developer Home (Nov 17)
 
Exchange Server 2010 RTMExchange 2010 is now available to the public. Download a 120 day trial to install on your hardware or a virtual disk for testing. Online trials also available. (Nov 12)
 
Outlook Tools: description of sample tools for managing PST files in your Outlook ProfileSample tools are available from the Microsoft Download site that will give administrators the ability to add a new or existing .pst to the profile, remove a .pst file from the profile, or retrieve information about .pst files in the profile. (May 6)
 
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 VHDEvaluate the new capabilities of Exchange Server 2007 SP1 using this fully configured virtual machine of the latest release of Exchange Server 2007 SP1. (Mar 26)
 
Update Rollup 7 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1Update Rollup 7 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) resolves issues that were found in Exchange Server 2007 SP1 since the software was released. This update rollup is highly recommended for all Exchange Server 2007 SP1 customers. For a list of changes that are included in this update rollup, see KB 960384. (Mar 19)
 
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS09-003 - CriticalVulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Could Allow Remote Code Execution (959239). This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server. The first vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a specially crafted TNEF message is sent to a Microsoft Exchange Server. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of the affected system with Exchange Server service account privileges. The second vulnerability could allow denial of service if a specially crafted MAPI command is sent to a Microsoft Exchange Server. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could cause the Microsoft Exchange System Attendant service and other services that use the EMSMDB32 provider to stop responding. This security update is rated Critical for all supported editions of Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server, Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. (Feb 12)
 
Unified Communications ManagementQuest Solutions for UC Management 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. (Dec 15)
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Development Resources

Outlook 2010 Developer Content at MSDNContent topics include: Extending the User Interface in Outlook 2010, Programming the Outlook 2010 Solutions Module, Shutdown Changes for Outlook 2010 Beta, What's New for Developers in Outlook 2010 (Nov 12)
 
Roadmap for Outlook Personal Folders (.pst) DocumentationIn order to facilitate interoperability and enable customers and vendors to access the data in .pst files on a variety of platforms, Microsoft will be releasing documentation for the .pst file format. (Oct 26)
 
Additional Shutdown Changes for Outlook 2010 Beta A must read for Outlook developers, this articles discusses changes made to Outlook to improve performance and improve shutdown. (Oct 6)
 
Deprecation of Exchange Client Extensions"ECEs will continue to operate as expected in Outlook 2007 and earlier. However, ECEs will not load in Outlook 2010. Outlook 2010 has converted its own ECEs such as Delegate Access, Deleted Items Recovery, Exchange Extensions commands, and Exchange Extensions property pages to native Outlook code." (May 7)
 
PMAPIWrapperPMAPIWrapper is a small COM library offering functionality to get around the Outlook Security prompts introduced in Outlook 2000. It provides a set of functions to get properties without invoking the security prompts, and also some properties not available to the Outlook Object Model. (Mar 25)
 
RedemptionSupports Outlook 2007. This update contains many new features and bug fixes. See Redemption history for a complete list of changes in this build. Version 4.7.0.1026 (Feb 26)
 
Microsoft Outlook 2007 ProgrammingThree chapters from Sue Mosher's book “Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming”, are available on MSDN. They are:
  • Chapter 5- Introducing Form Regions
  • Chapter 17- Working with Item Bodies in Outlook 2007
  • Chapter 24- Generating Reports on Outlook 2007 Data
  • (Feb 25)
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    Other Resources

    Office 2010 Beta Public availabilityThe Office 2010 Beta is now available for the general public to download. I highly recommend users not install it on their “production” system. If you ignore this advice, install the 32-bit version, especially if you use add-ins or sync with devices. Existing add-ins will not work with the 64-bit build. (Nov 18)
     
    New Ways to Try and Buy Microsoft Office 2010Users of new PCs preloaded with Office will be able to purchase a Product Key Card containing a single license card (no DVD media) from retail stores. The key code will unlock Office and enables any one of three full versions of Office –Home & Student, Home & Business, or Professional. Additionally, Microsoft is replacing Works with a cut down version of Office called Office Starter 2010. Office Starter 2010 is a reduced-functionality, advertising-supported version of Office 2010, available only on new PCs. Office Starter 2010 gives users a simple path to upgrade to a full version of Office 2010 directly from within the product (with a product key card). For those users who want to try (or buy) Office 2010, on their current computer, they will be able to download Click-to-Run. Click-to-Run uses virtualization technology, allowing users to maintain multiple versions of Office so they can try Office 2010 side-by-side with the existing version of Office. (Oct 9)
     
    Frequently Asked Questions about the February CUThis address some of the top questions, comments, and concerns Microsoft has received regarding the February Cumulative update. (Mar 19)
     
    Outlook 2007 improvements in the February 2009 cumulative updateA pre-SP2 update for Outlook 2007, the February Cumulative Update (CU) contains a large set of the fixes that release as part of the 2007 Microsoft Office suite Service Pack 2 (SP2). (Feb 24)
     
    Modify Calendar Printing Assistant TemplatesLearn the basics of editing the Calendar Printing Assistant templates. (Jan 27)
     
    Trouble with Live Search Maps Add-in for OutlookMicrosoft has received a large number of support cases that are caused either directly or indirectly because of this add-in. These include hangs, crashes, and leaks. One problem is the custom form and an updated form is available for download. (Oct 28)
     
    Outlook and IMAP: Outlook sends unknown messagesWhen an IMAP account is configured in Outlook 2007, your tracking preferences are ignored and read receipts are returned when you delete items from the Junk E-mail folder. (Oct 28)
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