Intro to Collaboration Solutions

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Introduction To Collaboration Solutions For
Exchange 5.5 Marc GallucciSenior
ConsultantSouthern California DistrictZaakera
RemnantTechnology SpecialistMicrosoft
Corporation
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Agenda

• Collaboration with Exchange
• Office 2000 as a Collaboration Application
• Public Folder Solutions
• Web Client Solutions

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What Is Collaboration?
Communication, information sharing, and task
coordination for the purpose of achieving a goal
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Collaboration Technology Key Benefits

• Extensive and secure communication
• Storage of information in a central location
• Ability to extend existing technologies with new
  functionality and bridge islands of information

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The Collaboration Platform
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Rating Your Collaboration IQ

• Do you know when there is a crisis?
• Can everyone respond effectively and quickly to a
  crisis?
• Are you still using paper forms?
• Does your organization build on its learning?
• Is information easily shared up, down and across
  the organization?
• Does the system support partner and supplier
  initiatives and integration?

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Exchange And Collaboration
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Office 2000 Empowerment

• Info always available HTML/XML
• Enterprise data Excel/OLAP, Outlook/Exchange
• Meetings without walls Web and real-time
  collaboration
• Digital dashboard Outlook Today

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Office 2000 Collaboration Enhancements

• Office E-Mail
• Group Scheduling
• Shared Contacts
• Customizable Outlook Today
• Hosting Web Applications in Outlook
• Folder Home Pages
• Associate a Web page with any personal or
  Exchange Server Public Folder
• Enhance Public Folder applications with the
  flexibility of HTML and scripts

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Collaboration Developer Enhancements

• Visual Basic for Applications Support!
• Support for COM Add-ins using Visual Basic or
  Java against the Outlook Object Model
• Radically simpler than Exchange Client
  Extensions!
• Object model enhancements
• Replace default forms

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Collaborate And Analyze

• Office 2000 Feature Set
• Web Components
• Office Server Extensions/FP Server Extensions
• Outlook 2000/Collaborative Application Wizard
• Access Client Server
• Windows Media Services
• BackOffice Integration Points
• Exchange
• Windows NT/Internet Information Server
• Microsoft SQL Server

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DemonstrationOffice 2000/ Outlook 2000

• Document Routing
• Digital Dashboard
• Voting Buttons
• NetMeeting

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Industrial Strength DatabasePublic folders

• Transacted storage
• Highest reliability
• Efficient architecture
• Power database tools
• High speed backup
• Auto defragmentation
• Central to Microsoft Exchange
• Free and busy scheduling info
• Off-line address book

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Public FoldersReliable, replicated storage

• Public folders can hold anything
• Messages, meeting requests, contacts, documents,
  files, forms, audio clips, etc.
• Flexible semi-structured store
• Custom properties without schema changes
• Offline access and conflict resolution.
• Scalability through replication, with
  transparent redundancy

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DemonstrationPublic Folders

• Project Management Public Folder Application
• Public Folder Home Page
• Team Folder Application

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Internet Standards Support

• Support for all major messaging, scheduling and
  collaboration protocols

Messaging SMTP/POP3, IMAP4, Message
Disposition Notifications (Read
Receipts) Directory Access LDAP Newsgroups
NNTP Mail format HTML and MHTML Security
S/MIME Scheduling iCalendar,
vCalendar Contacts vCard
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DemonstrationWeb-Based Solutions

• In-Line Web Discussions and Subscriptions
• Outlook Web Access
• Events Calendar
• TPU
• Expense Reporting

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Related Sessions

• 7-303 - Building Digital Dashboards with Outlook
  2000 and Exchange
• 7-302 - Using, Building and Extending Outlook
  2000 Team Folders
• 5-305 - Building Web Applications Using
  "Platinum" Outlook Web Access Components
• 6-312 - Integrating Office 2000 and Exchange with
  Line-of-Business Solutions
• 7-309 - Building and Deploying Team Collaboration
  Solutions

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Resources

• www.microsoft.com/exchange
• www.microsoft.com/exchange/Collaboration.htm
• www.microsoft.com/digitalnervoussystem/km/digital
  dashboard.htm
• www.microsoft.com/backofficeserver/prodinfo/teamp
  rodupdate.htm
• www.microsoft.com/office/features/default.htm
• www.microsoft.com/DigitalNervousSystem/km/default
  .htm
• http//officeupdate.microsoft.com/welcome/outlook
  .htm

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