MOC-1153 Solutions Development with Exchange Server and Outlook

Overview of Microsoft Exchange Collaboration Development
Moc 1153

Introduction

This course provides students with an introduction to the Microsoft® platform of technologies for developing powerful collaboration solutions. The primary focus of this course will be on explaining the platform, developing noncoding collaboration solutions, and developing form-based solutions. This course should be considered a step toward technical certification.

At Course Completion

At the end of the course, students will be able to:

• Describe the components of collaboration applications.
• Name the types of collaboration applications that can be created.
• Name the instant collaborations available from within the Microsoft Outlook™ messaging and collaboration client.
• Describe how Outlook integrates with Microsoft Exchange Server and with public folders on Exchange Server to accomplish collaboration applications.
• Create and customize an instant collaboration by using Outlook built-in modules.
• Customize and configure an Outlook form, including creating or adding fields, adding controls, integrating Microsoft Office 97 documents, and applying actions.
• Describe the Web development tools and their features.
• Describe the Active Server Pages (ASP) object model, as well as the functionality of each object within the model.
• Deploy an application by distributing forms and granting appropriate permissions.

Microsoft Certified Professional Exams

This course will help the student prepare for the following Microsoft Certified Professional exam(s):

• There is no Microsoft Certified Professional exam that maps to this course.

Prerequisites

• Familiarity with the Outlook user interface
• Background in programming logic (not essential, but recommended)
• Experience with the Microsoft Visual Basic® programming system (not essential, but recommended)
• Basic hypertext markup language (HTML) proficiency
• The course materials, lectures, and lab exercises are in English. To benefit fully from our instruction, students need an understanding of the English language and completion of the prerequisites.

Course Outline

Module 1: Introduction to Collaboration Applications

Introduction to collaboration applications
Types of collaboration applications

Module 2: Microsoft Collaboration Application Platform and Tools

Microsoft collaboration application platform
Microsoft Exchange Server platform for collaboration applications
Microsoft Outlook messaging and collaboration client
Collaboration application active platform

Module 3: Creating and Managing Outlook Folders

Creating folders with Outlook
Planning and organizing folders
Creating folder rules and views

Module 4: Creating and Customizing Outlook Forms

Outlook form fundamentals
Using the Outlook form designer
Additional form designer features

Module 5: Building Collaboration Applications for the Web

Introduction to Web development tools
Introduction to Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
Active Server Pages object model
Using the ASP object model
Using ASP
Collaboration data object overview

Module 6: Overview of Application Management and Deployment

Using the Exchange Server scripting agent
Form management overview
Deploying collaboration applications