An update for Outlook 2003 (KB924423) is now available to download from the Microsoft.

Brief Description
This update provides holidays for the Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 calendar for the years 2007 through 2012.

Overview
You can get specific information about this update in the Microsoft Knowledge Base article Description of the Update for Outlook 2003 (KB924423).
Note: Users of Indonesian, Malay, Urdu, and Vietnamese language versions of Microsoft Office 2003 can download and install office2003-KB924423-fullfile-enu.exe.

System Requirements

• Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000; Windows Server 2003; Windows XP

• This update applies to the following product: Microsoft Office Outlook 2003.

• To install the update, you must have the following:
  • Office 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2).

Microsoft released recently reference material for Outlook developers that includes code samples and technical documentation.

Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Auxiliary Reference
The Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Auxiliary Reference contains conceptual content, reference documentation for twelve sets of APIs, code samples, and a redistributable installer, which allow developers to extend and integrate with Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. This documentation contains conceptual and reference materials for the following:

• Account Management API
• Attachment Security API
• Data Degradation Layer API
• Free/Busy API
• Mail Envelope API
• MAPI-MIME Conversion API
• Offline State API
• Outlook Exported APIs
• Replication API
• Store API
• MAPI additions
• Named properties used by Outlook

In addition, it contains sample tasks and descriptions of four sample projects.

Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Auxiliary Reference Code Samples and Redistributable Installer
This set of downloads includes a sample add-in, three sample service providers, a header file, and a redistributable installer (coming soon).

• The Sample Offline State Add-in is a COM add-in written in C++ that demonstrates how to receive notifications of connection state changes and how to modify the current state using the Offline State API. For more information, see About the Sample Offline State Add-In in the online Help.
• Sample Service Providers
  • The Sample Wrapped PST Store Provider uses the PST provider as the back end for storing data. The wrapped PST store provider is intended to be used in conjuction with the Replication API.
    For more information, see About the Replication API in the Outlook 2007 Auxiliary Reference. Most of the functions in the Sample Wrapped PST Store Provider pass their arguments directly to the underlying PST provider. For more information, see About the Sample Wrapped PST Store Provider.
  • The Sample Transport Provider implements a shared network file system transport provider. A transport provider is a DLL that acts as an intermediary between the MAPI subsystem and one or more underlying messaging systems. The code in this sample can be used as a starting point for building a more robust transport provider. For more information, see About the Sample Transport Provider.
  • The Sample Address Book Provider implements a basic address book provider that can be used as a starting point for further customization. It implements the required features of an address book provider, as well as more advanced features such as name resolution. For more information, see About the Sample Address Book Provider.
• tzmovelib.h Designed to be used with the redistributable installer, this file contains definitions for flags, constants, enumerations, data structures, interfaces and their identifiers, macros, and functions for the calendar rebasing APIs. By default, the file is installed in C:\2007 Office System Developer Resources\Outlook 2007 Auxiliary Reference\Rebasing Calendars.

Coming Soon
The redistributable installer tzmovelib.msi will be provided on this page soon. This redistributable installer installs the assembly file tzmovelib.dll in C:\Program Files\MsExTmz. Third-party calendar rebasing tools can use it to programmatically update calendars that are displayed incorrectly because of Daylight Saving Time. With this assembly, developers can use the same APIs that Outlook and Exchange Server use in their calendar rebasing tools.
Note Developers can redistribute only the installer, tzmovlib.msi, and must not redistribute the assembly, tzmovlib.dll, or any other extracted components separately from the installer.

If you read my series of articles about Shared Hosting with Exchange 2007, you’ll probably be glad to know that Microsoft is finally releasing the official documentation on how to segregate Address Lists.

If you didn’t notice the disclaimers ( ) in the article, I would like to repeat that the procedures described are neither supported nor recommended by Microsoft. I hope they change their position now that the official documentation will finally be released (or at least, part of it).

The document is expected to be released in February, is authored by Dave Goldman, a Microsoft Escalation Engineer and he unveils more details in his blog.

Microsoft released a minor update of its Lotus Notes migration suite: Microsoft Transporter Suite v08.02.0012.

Brief Description
Microsoft Transporter Suite is a set of interoperability and migration tools to migrate content from Lotus Domino servers or Generic POP/IMAP servers.

Overview
Transporter Suite contains a set of tools for migrations from both Lotus Domino Servers, and generic IMAP/POP sources. For Lotus Domino the suite contains a set of tools for Directory and Free/Busy interoperability between Lotus Domino 6 or 7 and Exchange Server 2007 and Windows Server 2003 Active Directory. In addition for Lotus Domino the suite contains migration tools to migrate users, groups, personal address lists, mailboxes, personal mail archives, and applications from Lotus Domino 5, 6 or 7 to Active Directory, Exchange Server 2007, and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. For generic POP/IMAP servers the suite contains a set of tools to bulk migrate mailboxes from any generic email servers that support the POP3 or IMAP4 protocol to mailboxes in Exchange Server 2007

Related links

• Microsoft Transporter Suite for Lotus Domino Release Notes
• Microsoft Transporter for Lotus Domino End-to-End Guidance

IT Showcase: Managing the Calendaring and Collaboration Process By Using Exchange Server 2007 Web Services v1.5 is available to download from the Microsoft site. You’ll get a Word document and a PowerPoint presentation.

Brief Description
Understand how Microsoft used Exchange Server 2007 Web Services to create an automated and integrated communication and collaboration solution.

Overview
Two distinct groups at Microsoft have the challenging task of scheduling thousands of people for speaking engagements or for job interviews each year. Understand how Microsoft used Exchange Server 2007 Web Services to automate a near real-time solution to create integrated communication and collaboration; one that can display multiple meetings and multiple presenters per meeting; within its own enterprise using an improved development toolset that offers better functionality than previously available from Microsoft.

A while ago, I mentioned some new and updated DPM 2007 documents. Meanwhile Microsoft released a couple more, so here’s a list to the latest versions:

• System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 System Requirements (v1.3) - DPM 2007 System Requirements provides information that you use to ensure that the DPM server and the computers and applications it is going to protect meet network and security requirements. This topic also lists the DPM supported operating systems and the recommended hardware and software requirements.
• Deploying System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 (v1.3) - Deploying DPM 2007 provides step-by-step instructions for installing and configuring DPM 2007, and includes an introduction to the DPM user interface. Deploying DPM 2007 also provides information on troubleshooting your DPM installation and how to repair and uninstall DPM 2007.

A wrote a new series of articles regarding this subject, so if you’re interested keep an eye on the MSExchange.org site.

The Outlook 2007 Add-in: Folder Homepage View Customization is available for download from the Microsoft site. The download page mentions an article that has no text, by the time I posted this information. I hope that Microsoft fixes it quickly.

Brief Description
The Folder Homepage View Customization sample project illustrates ways to host nested WPF, ActiveX and Windows Forms controls inside an Outlook add-in application by customizing the view of a MAPI folder in Outlook.

Overview
Please refer to the text in the accompanying article for details; http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=107437.
The download package includes the following two projects:
1. [Download location]\FolderHomepage_OutlookAdd-in\FolderHomepage_OutlookAddin.sln
2. [Download location]\FolderHomepageAx_OutlookAdd-in\FolderHomepage_OutlookAddin.sln

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: building your solution is a free (registration required) online course from HP.

Class overview
This class will help experienced IT personnel with a background in Windows 2000 Server or Windows Server 2003 in an Active Directory environment get up to speed on the basics of Exchange Server 2007. You’ll examine Exchange Server 2007 from many aspects, and at the end of the class, you’ll be able to plan for, install and perform basic configuration on a new Exchange Server 2007 organization.

What you’ll learn

• Know and understand the new Exchange Server 2007 features and how they differ from Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
• Understand the integration between Exchange, Windows and Active Directory
• Plan and prepare for new Exchange Server 2007 requirements
• Install Exchange Server 2007 and create an organization
• Configure and manage Microsoft Exchange Server information storage groups and individual stores
• Understand high-availability and clustering features in Exchange Server 2007

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You’ll get proven e-mail management tips from the experts at MessageOne and you’ll also have the opportunity to ask questions throughout this interactive Web event.
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The Microsoft Exchange Team has an interesting post about the Supportability for multiple OWA/ Exchange Web Sites on Client Access Servers in Exchange Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1.

If you read my series of articles about Shared Hosting with Exchange 2007, that may be of interest to you.

Here’s a little excerpt:

The following outlines the general supportability guidelines for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 with and without Service Pack 1.

1. If you are using Forms-Based Authentication for your /OWA and/or legacy (/Exchange and /ExchWeb) virtual directories, Microsoft supports a single Web site per Client Access Server. Further, the /OWA and legacy virtual directories must be in the same Application Pool (AppPool).
2. If you do not use Forms-Based Authentication, you can use as many Exchange Server-related Web sites as needed for your organization. 
   However, Microsoft recommends that you use a Microsoft ISA Server 2006 server to handle Forms-Based Authentication for your various Web sites, in this circumstance.
3. If Forms-Based Authentication must be used on the Exchange Server 2007 computer *and legacy virtual directories are not used*, you can use multiple Application Pools (AppPools) for each Web site. 
   Note:  Lack of legacy virtual directories will prevent proxy to Exchange Server 2003 mailbox servers and prevent Entourage clients from synchronizing with the Exchange Server using the Exchange service. 
4. Outlook Anywhere (formerly known as RPC over HTTP) can only be set for a single Web site, per Client Access Server.  If you wish to use an approximation of a Hosted solution for Outlook Anywhere, it would have to be done using redirection per the following TechNet topic. 
   “Configure Client Access Servers”