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| Introduction To Collaborative Systems | |
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| A Broader Definition of Collaboration | |
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| Tools for Building Collaborative Systems | |
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| Microsoft Outlook | |
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| Microsoft Internet Explorer | |
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| Microsoft Exchange Server | |
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| Microsoft SQL Server | |
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| Microsoft Internet Information Server | |
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| Microsoft Site Server | |
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| Microsoft Visual Studio | |
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| Microsoft Visual Basic | |
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| Microsoft Visual InterDev | |
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| Examples of Collaborative Solutions | |
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| Messaging Applications | |
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| Tracking Applications | |
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| Workflow Applications | |
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| Real-Time Applications | |
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| Knowledge Management Applications | |
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| Collaborative Features of Microsoft Outlook | |
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| E-mail | |
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| Automatic Name Resolution and Nickname Support | |
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| Importance and Sensitivity Levels | |
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| Delayed Delivery and Auto-Expire | |
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| Message Attachments and Shortcuts | |
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| Message Flags | |
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| Voting Buttons | |
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| HTML Mail | |
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| Background and Scheduled Synchronization | |
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| Internet and Industry Standards Support | |
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| S/MIME Support | |
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| Information Management | |
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| Calendars | |
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| Contacts | |
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| Tasks | |
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| Journal | |
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| Integrated File Management | |
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| Filtered Replication | |
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| Rules | |
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| Views | |
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| Exchange Server as a Platform for Collaboration | |
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| Robust Messaging Infrastructure | |
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| Least-Cost Routing, Load Balancing, and Failover | |
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| Delivery and Read Receipts | |
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| Message Tracking | |
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| Industrial-Strength Object Database | |
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| Huge Storage Capacity | |
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| Multiple Views | |
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| Built-In Replication | |
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| Schema Flexibility | |
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| Transaction Logging | |
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| Exchange Server Directory | |
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| Reliable Database Engine | |
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| Multimaster and Replication Capabilities | |
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| Customizable Attributes and "White Pages" | |
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| Extensibility and Security | |
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| Internet and Industry Standards Support | |
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| Public Folders | |
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| Folder and Application Accessibility | |
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| Security and Content Control | |
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| Internet Standards Support | |
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| Integrated, Internet Standards-Based Security | |
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| Windows NT Security | |
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| Secure Messaging | |
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| Secure Applications | |
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| S/MIME Support | |
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| Multitiered, Replicated, Secure Forms Library | |
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| Organizational Forms Library | |
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| Folder Forms Library | |
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| Personal Forms Library | |
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| Web Forms Library | |
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| Built-In Information Management Tools | |
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| Rules | |
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| Event Scripting Agent | |
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| Connectivity and Migration Tools | |
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| Client Options | |
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| Pocket Outlook | |
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| Outlook Express | |
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| Outlook Web Access | |
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| Outlook for Windows Versions 3.x and the Macintosh | |
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| Microsoft Outlook | |
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| Choosing a Client | |
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| Building Outlook Applications | |
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| Folders, Fields, and Views | |
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| Folders | |
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| Creating Public Folders | |
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| Customizing Folder Properties | |
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| Setting Up Moderated Folders | |
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| Creating Public Folder Rules | |
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| Fields | |
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| Creating Custom Fields | |
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| Creating Combination Fields | |
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| Creating Formula Fields | |
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| Using Custom Fields in Filtered Replication | |
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| Views | |
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| Creating New Views | |
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| Customizing the Current View | |
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| Formatting the Columns in a View | |
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| Grouping Items in a View | |
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| Sorting Items in a View | |
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| Filtering Information in Views | |
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| Editing View Settings | |
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| Forms | |
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| Outlook Form Types | |
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| Message Forms | |
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| Post Forms | |
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| Contact Forms | |
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| Office Document Forms | |
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| How Forms Work | |
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| Data Binding | |
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| Designing Forms | |
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| Opening a Form in Design Mode | |
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| Choosing Display Properties | |
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| Important Default Fields | |
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| Using Controls | |
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| Accessing Controls from the Control Toolbox | |
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| Renaming Controls | |
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| Assigning Captions | |
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| Setting the Font and Color | |
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| Establishing Display Settings | |
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| Binding Controls | |
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| Setting Initial Values | |
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| Requiring and Validating Information in Fields | |
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| Built-In Outlook Controls | |
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| Using Custom or Third-Party Controls | |
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| Setting Advanced Control Properties | |
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| Setting the Tab Order | |
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| Layering Controls on a Form | |
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| Form Properties | |
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| Setting Default Form Properties | |
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| Setting Advanced Form Properties | |
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| Testing Forms | |
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| Publishing Forms | |
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| Publishing Forms in a Forms Library | |
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| Saving the Form Definition with the Item | |
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| Saving the Form as an oft File | |
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| Enhancing Forms | |
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| Extending Functionality with Office Document Forms | |
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| Creating Actions | |
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| Programming Outlook with VBScript | |
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| The Outlook Script Editor | |
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| VBScript Fundamentals | |
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| Working with Variables | |
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| Data Types in VBScript | |
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| Working with Objects | |
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| Constants in VBScript | |
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| Error Handling | |
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| The Script Debugger | |
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| Working with Outlook Objects | |
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| Getting Help with Outlook Objects | |
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| The Outlook Object Browser | |
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| The Outlook Object Hierarchy | |
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| Outlook Events | |
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| Writing Event Handlers | |
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| Disabling Events | |
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| Sequence of Events | |
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| Other Common Tasks in Outlook Development | |
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| Automating Outlook Office Documents | |
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| Automating Outlook from Other Applications | |
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| Using CDO in Outlook | |
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| Putting It All Together: The Account Tracking Application | |
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| Overview of the Account Tracking Application | |
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| The Account Tracking Folder | |
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| The Account Tracking Form | |
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| Setting Up the Application | |
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| Copying the Account Tracking Folder | |
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| Copying the Product Sales Database | |
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| Setting Permissions on the Folder | |
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| Techniques Employed by the Account Tracking Application | |
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| Setting Global Variables | |
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| Determining Compose or Read Mode: The Item_Read Event | |
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| Initializing the Application: The Item_Open Event | |
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| Connecting to the Sales Database: The GetDatabaseInfo Subroutine | |
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| Displaying an Address Book Using CDO: The FindAddress Subroutine | |
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| Creating Account Contacts: The cmdAddAccountContact Subroutine | |
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| Refreshing the Contact List Box: The cmdRefreshContactsList Subroutine | |
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| Performing Default Contact Actions: E-mail, Letters, and NetMeeting | |
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| Automating Excel: The cmdCreateSalesChart and cmdPrintAccountSummary Subroutines | |
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| Unloading the Application: The Item_Close Event | |
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| Outlook Today and the Account Tracking Application | |
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| Viewing the Customized Outlook Today Page | |
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| Setting Up the Customized Outlook Today Page | |
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| Outlook and the Web | |
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| Outlook Today | |
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| Outlook Today Technologies | |
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| Customizing Outlook Today | |
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| Active Server Pages | |
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| ASP Fundamentals | |
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| Global asa | |
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| Built-In ASP Objects | |
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| Server-Side Include Files | |
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| Server Components | |
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| Outlook Web Access | |
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| Installing Outlook Web Access | |
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| Outlook Web Access and ASP Security | |
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| Special Considerations for Setting Up Outlook Web Access | |
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| The Outlook HTML Form Converter | |
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| Software Requirements of the Converter | |
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| Components of the Converter | |
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| Features of the Converter | |
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| Stepping Through a Conversion | |
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| Examples of Conversions | |
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| Files Created for Converted Forms | |
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| Web Forms Library | |
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| Making HTML Forms Available in Outlook | |
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| Tips for Developing HTML-Ready Outlook Apps | |
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| Outlook 2000 Development Features | |
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| Office 2000 COM Add-Ins | |
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| Deciding Whether to Write a COM Add-In | |
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| Developing a COM Add-In | |
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| Debugging Your COM Add-In | |
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| Outlook 2000 Object Model | |
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| New Objects and Collections | |
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| Outlook Bar Object Model | |
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| New Methods, Properties, and Events for Existing Objects | |
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| Enhancements to All Item Types | |
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| VBA Support in Outlook 2000 | |
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| VBA Architecture | |
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| Creating a VBA Application | |
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| Choosing What to Write: COM Add-In or VBA Program? | |
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| Outlook 2000 in Action: Enhancements to the Account Tracking Application | |
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| Folder Home Pages | |
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| Setting Up the First Folder Home Page | |
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| Example Script for the Folder Home Page | |
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| The Outlook View Control | |
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| Setting Up the Second Folder Home Page | |
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| Using the Outlook View Control | |
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| The Account Tracking COM Add-In | |
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| Compiling and Registering the COM Add-In | |
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| Testing the COM Add-In | |
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| Implementing the COM Add-In | |
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| Collaboration With Microsoft Exchange | |
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| Collaboration Data Objects | |
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| What Is CDO? | |
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| CDO and the Outlook Object Library | |
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| CDO and the CDO for NTS Library | |
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| Overview of the CDO Library | |
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| Getting Help with the CDO Library | |
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| Background for Four Sample Applications That Use CDO | |
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| Using the CDO Session Object | |
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| Using the Logon Method | |
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| Helpdesk Application | |
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| Setting Up the Helpdesk Application | |
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| Helpdesk CDO Session Considerations | |
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| Logging On to the Helpdesk | |
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| Accessing Folders in the Helpdesk | |
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| Implementing Helpdesk Folder Security | |
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| Retrieving User Directory Information | |
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| Posting Information in the Helpdesk | |
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| Rendering the List of Helpdesk Tickets | |
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| Rendering the Actual Helpdesk Ticket | |
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| Creating the Calendar Information | |
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| Creating a Meeting with the User | |
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| Resolving the Helpdesk Ticket | |
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| Calendar of Events Application | |
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| Setting Up the Calendar of Events Application | |
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| CDO Sessions | |
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| Prompting the User for Input | |
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| Displaying Views of the Calendar | |
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| Displaying the Details of an Event | |
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| Intranet News Application | |
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| Setting Up the Application | |
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| Anonymous Logon | |
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| Retrieving the Folder and Messages | |
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| Displaying the News Items | |
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| Reading the Details of a Specific News Item | |
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| CDO Visual Basic Application | |
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| Setting Up the Application | |
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| Programming CDO with Visual Basic | |
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| Logging On the User | |
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| Finding the Details of the Specific User | |
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| CDO Tips and Pitfalls | |
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| Avoid the GetNext Trap | |
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| Avoid Temporary Objects, If Possible | |
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| Use Early Binding with Visual Basic | |
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| Use With Statements | |
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| Avoid the Dreaded ASP 0115 Error | |
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| Avoid the MAPIE_FailOneProvider or CDOE_FailOneProvider Error | |
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| Learn Your Properties and Their IDs Well | |
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| The Event Scripting Agent | |
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| Architecture of the Exchange Event Service | |
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| Event Service Cautions | |
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| Setting Up the Event Service | |
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| Registry Settings for Script Authors | |
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| Writing Agents by Using Scripts | |
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| Supported Event Types | |
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| Intrinsic Objects for Scripts | |
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| Instantiating Other COM Objects from Your Scripts | |
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| Error Trapping and Logging | |
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| Microsoft Script Debugger | |
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| Script. Response and Logging | |
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| The Windows NT Event Log | |
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| Expense Report Application | |
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| Setting Up the Expense Report Application | |
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| Functionality of the Expense Report Application | |
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| Expense Agent Script | |
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| CDO Code in the Application | |
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| Programmatically Binding Agents | |
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| Exchange Event Service Configuration Library | |
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| Agent Install Application | |
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| Using the Exchange Event Service Configuration Library | |
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| Accessing Existing Agents | |
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| Accessing the Scripts Contained in Agents | |
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| Creating Agents Programmatically | |
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| Disabling and Deleting Agents | |
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| Agent Hosts | |
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| Exchange Event Scripting Agent Servers | |
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| Running the Script Engine in MTS | |
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| Exchange Server Routing Objects | |
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| Exchange Server Routing | |
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| Routing Architecture | |
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| Operation of the Routing Engine | |
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| Process Instances | |
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| Routing Maps | |
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| Intrinsic Actions | |
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| Custom Script Actions | |
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| What About Roles? | |
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| Expense Routing Application | |
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| Setting Up the Expense Routing Application | |
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| Changes to the ASP Section of the Application | |
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| Changes to the Server Script | |
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| Routing Object Library | |
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| RouteDetails Object | |
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| Proclnstance Object | |
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| Map Object | |
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| Row Object | |
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| Log Object | |
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| Participant Object | |
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| VoteTable Object | |
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| RecipientEntry Object | |
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| Workltem Object | |
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| Updated Agent Install Application | |
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| Overview of the Updated Agent Install Application | |
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| Agent Enhancements | |
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| Routing Map Enhancements | |
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| Process Instance Enhancements | |
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| User Interface Enhancements | |
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| Programming Exchange Server Using ADSI | |
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| What Is ADSI? | |
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| Accessing the Directory: CDO or ADSI? | |
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| Design Goals of the ADSI Object Library | |
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| ADSI Object Library Architecture | |
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| IADs and IADsContainer Interfaces | |
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| Exchange Server Object Classes | |
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| IADsContainer Interface | |
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| Exchange Server Schema | |
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| Access-Category Property | |
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| Description Property | |
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| Heuristics Property | |
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| Creating Paths to Exchange Server Objects and Attributes | |
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| ADSI Application | |
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| Setting Up the ADSI Application | |
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| Logging On to ADSI | |
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| Creating a Mailbox | |
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| Querying for Information from an Existing Mailbox | |
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| Creating a Custom Recipient | |
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| Creating a Distribution List | |
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| Adding and Removing Users from a Distribution List | |
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| Displaying the Users in a Distribution List | |
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| Creating a Recipients Container | |
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| Displaying the Objects in a Recipients Container | |
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| Getting Help with ADSI | |
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| Enhancing Your Exchange Server Applications with COM Components | |
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| AcctCrt Component | |
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| Creating an Instance of the AcctCrt Component | |
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| Creating a Windows NT Account by Using the AcctCrt Component | |
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| Deleting a Windows NT Account by Using the AcctCrt Component | |
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| Associating Windows NT Accounts with Exchange Server Mailboxes | |
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| Rules Component | |
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| Storing Rules | |
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| Creating an Instance of the Rules Component | |
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| Using the Rules Component | |
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| Specifying a Logical Condition | |
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| Searching for Specific Content | |
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| Searching for a Particular Bitmask | |
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| ACL Component | |
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| Project Application | |
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| Setting Up the Project Application | |
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| Architecture of the Application | |
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| Implementing the Projects Application | |
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| Using the Rules Component to Fire on All Incoming Messages | |
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| Index | |