Exchange and Outlook: Constructing Collaborative Solutions [Paperback]

Joel Semeniuk (Author), Mackenzie (Author)

Book Description

Series: Circle Series | Publication Date: January 15, 2000

Exchange Server is Microsoft's flagship project. It is common for firms to choose Windows over other Operating Systems just so they can use Exchange Server. Most enterprise installations, especially those with remote or mobile employees, create custom collaborative Outlook and Exchange applications for groupware, salesforce automation and project management. Exchange & Outlook Programming is divided into four sections that build upon one another, first by establishing a base ("Why build collaborative solutions"?), then by laying out the tools that can be used to build collaborative solutions. The third section helps to establish how we should plan and design effective collaborative solutions. Finally, the fourth section provides insight and knowledge on the exact methods of using our tools to develop and rollout typical workflow/collaborative solutions.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Business has everything to do with collaboration, which is why it pays for organizations to devote resources to development of customized environments that are based on Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Outlook. Taken together, say Joel Semeniuk and Duncan Mackenzie in Exchange & Outlook: Constructing Collaborative Solutions, these two flexible pieces of software can provide workers with all of the information they need to do their jobs effectively. Toward that end, this book presents a comprehensive look at Exchange and Outlook customization by using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and other Microsoft technologies. Read this one for ideas on what you can do with Outlook and recipes for getting the job done.

Code listings appear frequently in this book, but explanatory text is the main attraction. The authors' idea seems to be that if they tell you which system elements talk to which others, and how the communication takes place, you can write your own code to take advantage of the situation. To help you along, they include full statements on how they arrived at solutions for typical Exchange and Outlook problems, such as customizing the appearance of Web pages that are generated by Outlook Web Access (OWA). A reference to the Collaborative Data Objects (CDO) object model concludes this book and should prove helpful to programmers who are working on projects. --David Wall

Topics covered: Customizing Microsoft Outlook 2000 and Exchange 2000 by using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), Component Object Model (COM) modules, and other programming techniques. In large part, this book is a survey of hooks, a look at the places where Outlook and Exchange allow customizations. There's detailed coverage of Outlook Web Access (OWA), forms development, Messaging API (MAPI), and the "digital dashboard" concept.

From the Back Cover

Exchange Server is Microsoft's flagship project. It is common for firms to choose Windows over other Operating Systems just so they can use Exchange Server. Most enterprise installations, especially those with remote or mobile employees, create custom collaborative Outlook and Exchange applications for groupware, salesforce automation and project management. Exchange & Outlook Programming is divided into four sections that build upon one another, first by establishing a base ("Why build collaborative solutions"?), then by laying out the tools that can be used to build collaborative solutions. The third section helps to establish how we should plan and design effective collaborative solutions. Finally, the fourth section provides insight and knowledge on the exact methods of using our tools to develop and rollout typical workflow/collaborative solutions.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 552 pages
• Publisher: Sams; 1st edition (January 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1578702526
• ISBN-13: 978-1578702527
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,535,856 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A founsdaion for collaborative ideas, August 23, 2000

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M Hensley (Spokane, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Exchange and Outlook: Constructing Collaborative Solutions (Paperback)

This is a book that will provide the reader with a solid understanding of how to create a collaborative solution and not what solution to create. The different pieces of the collaborative 'technology' are explained from Exchange to Outlook to Outlook Web Acess to Digital Dashboards.

The reader is not assaulted with several technical details but is provided with a solid foundation of information, what is and is not possible, for each of the technology pieces. Then the reader is shown three examples that combine the different pieces into practical real world solutions.

If you what to know how to create collaborative solution and not what to create, this book is for you.

2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars useless, February 7, 2001

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"kozsu" (Ziverbey, Istanbul Turkey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Exchange and Outlook: Constructing Collaborative Solutions (Paperback)

This book gives only ideas about collaborating, how you gonna do it is up to you.. I have waited patiently till the end of the book to find something usefull but where you think that might be usefull Mr. Semeniuk only points out some other sources. If you wanna see what might collaboration is and want to read 500 pages, this book is for you, but you gonna do some development and need something realistic, try something else.. i gonna look at exchange programming books of wrox and mspress.. two stars are for the first two chapters, which really do the overview job of the book well enough..