Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
Unleash the power of MS Outlook to cutomize and use macros and templates for programs like Excel and Word, and more.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
Chapter 23: Exchange Server, Databases, and XML Web Services
Overview
Beyond the Outlook screen on your desktop is a wider world of information some of it stored within your organization and, increasingly, some of it is available through distributed databases and services on the Internet. This chapter will help you make those connections with other information sources, whether they exist as Exchange server public folders, databases, or XML Web services.
Highlights of this chapter include discussions of the following:
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How to use a custom Outlook form to announce a new public folder
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What features a folder home page can add to a public folder
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How to connect to Microsoft Access and SQL Server databases
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Which one line of code can fill a combo box with the contents of a database table
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How to get a unique sequential number from a database
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What new toolkit from Microsoft turns Outlook 2002 into a consumer of XML Web services
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How to use XML Web services to get the local time for a contact, validate a Zip code, and send a fax
23.1 Managing Exchange public folders
Outlook works great in a small workgroup with a POP3 or IMAP4 mail server. As you saw in Chapter 20, "Common Outlook Form and Item Techniques," it is even possible to exchange items created with custom forms via Internet mail. However, to get the full benefit of all the collaboration features in Outlook, you need Microsoft Exchange as your mail and collaboration server. Exchange Server supports shared folders with custom forms and views, as well as other...
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