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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

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)
 
KONSEC KonnektorUse KONSEC Konnektor and Kolab Groupware Server to share contact information, set up meetings and manage projects using Outlook. (Oct 15)
 
ConfidentSend ConfidentSend is an add-in for Microsoft Outlook 2003/2007 to remove hidden data & metadata from email attachments. ConfidentSend is able to remove 39 types of potentially confidentiality compromising hidden data from 18 file types, including Microsoft Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), OpenOffice.org / StarOffice documents, PDF documents, and popular image and media file types such as JPEG, PNG, and SVG. (Oct 15)
 
MailValve EX MailValve EX is an add-in for Microsoft Exchange 2007 to remove hidden data & metadata from email attachments. MailValve EX is able to remove 39 types of potentially confidentiality compromising hidden data from 18 file types, including Microsoft Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), OpenOffice.org / StarOffice documents, PDF documents, and popular image and media file types such as JPEG, PNG, and SVG. (Oct 15)
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Updated Utilities

Spotlight on Active DirectoryThe Spotlight on Active Directory Pack provides you with the information you need to quickly resolve AD issues before they impact users. Identify replication, performance and availability problems, get real-time diagnostics and proactive problem resolution, and automate AD troubleshooting and repair. (Nov 4)
 
McAfee Email GatewaySecure appliance for your enterprise gateway. Email Gateway combines spam and fraud prevention, web filtering, virus and worm protection, policy and content compliance, email privacy, and secure email capabilities into a single platform. (Formerly IronMail) (Nov 4)
 
CompanionLink Outlook BCM syncSync Outlook BCM data with BlackBerry, iPhone, Windows Mobile and Palm OS devices. Supports syncing Google data with Outlook or your phone. (Nov 4)
 
InLooxInLoox uses Outlook for project management and associated tasks: Project information dashboard, Project planning, scheduling and monitoring, Activity, cost and time recording, Team coordination and resource management and more. Supported in Outlook 2000, 2002/XP, 2003 and 2007 (Nov 2)
 
Xiant FilerXiant Filer is an Outlook add-on that seamlessly integrates with Outlook and recommends filing options based on your filing habits. It further simplifies mailbox management by enabling filing across multiple e-mails through its file by sender, file by thread, and file by topic features. (Oct 28)
 
Outlook Rules ManagerMail organiser for Outlook to replace the built-in Rules Wizard. Offers unlimited rule capacity (only limited by your computer hardware), quick folder find, attachment renaming, and Bayesian antispam mail filtering. (Oct 22)
 
1-Click Duplicate Delete1-click solution to remove duplicate mails, contacts or calendar items. Merges contacts automatically, has an undo function and a configurable advanced mode. Version 3 (Oct 22)
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Administrator Resources

Exchange Server 2010 RTMIn an announcement made earlier today, Exchange 2010 was released to manufacturing and is expected to be available to the public in early November. (Oct 8)
 
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)
 
InTrust Plug-in for ExchangeThe InTrust Plug-in for Exchange provides detailed, real-time auditing of changes to Exchange server configurations and permissions. The Plug-in works in the framework of the full InTrust product to provide all information behind important changes, including who made the change, where they made the change from and the before and after values. This provides operational value by allowing an administrator to troubleshoot Exchange problems and reverse any changes if necessary. It also has security and compliance value by allowing organizations to track changes to Exchange security and policy settings which may adversely affect the organization. (Dec 15)
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Development Resources

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)
     
    Outlook 2007 MAPI ReferenceMSDN’s Outlook 2007 Messaging API (MAPI) Reference guide provides the messaging architecture for Outlook 2007. MAPI for Outlook 2007 provides a set of classes, interfaces, functions, and other data types to facilitate the development of Outlook 2007 messaging applications. (Dec 3)
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    Other Resources

    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)
     
    iPhone, Outlook, and Disappearing AppointmentsSuggested workarounds for problems with the iPhone and Outlook calendar syncing. (Jul 24)
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