Moc-1593 Building Collaborative Solutions By Using Microsoft Outlook 2000

Building Collaborative Solutions Using MS Outlook 2000

Moc 1593

Introduction

This course will enable developers to create collaborative solutions

by using Microsoft® Outlook® 2000 as the front-end application and Microsoft

Exchange Server and Microsoft SQL Serverý as the primary back-end applications.

This five-day instructor led course is a combination of lecture, interactive

demonstrations, video clips, and hands-on labs.

At Course Completion

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

Identify the appropriate collaborative solution to meet the needs of the business, and describe the logical and physical design of a collaborative solution and the tools that are used to create the solutions
Create and manage public folders, and incorporate public folders into a collaborative solution
Develop simple and complex custom forms by using Outlook 2000
Incorporate custom views into a collaborative solution
Determine the best way to write code that takes advantage of the Outlook object model within collaborative applications

Use form scripting to programmatically manipulate Outlook items

Use the development tools and the Outlook object model to develop components of collaborative applications



Create a digital dashboard by using folder home pages, the Outlook view control, and Outlook Today



Create team folders for collaborative applications by using the Team Folder Wizard, and deploy this tool to others



Write, debug, compile, and register Component Object Model (COM) add-ins for collaborative applications



Access data in a SQL Server database by using Microsoft Office Web Components and Microsoft ActiveX® Data Objects (ADO), as well as access data in the Microsoft Exchange Server directory by using the Outlook object model, Collaboration Data Objects (CDO), and Active Directoryý Service Interfaces (ADSI)



Use CDO to enhance application performance and to perform collaborative programming tasks that cannot be accomplished by using the Outlook object model



Write and debug event scripts that take advantage of the Microsoft Exchange Server Event Service



Integrate Microsoft Site Server to add indexing and search capabilities to a collaborative application



Test and deploy collaborative applications based on Outlook 2000 and Exchange Server, including applications that include team folders and ActiveX controls



Microsoft Certified Professional Exams

This course will help the student prepare for the following Microsoft

Certified Professional exam:





To be determined



Prerequisites

Course 1080, Essentials of Microsoft Visual Basic® Scripting Edition 3.0, or equivalent knowledge



Course 1303, Mastering Microsoft Visual Basic 6 Fundamentals, or equivalent knowledge, or course 1301, Mastering Microsoft Office 2000 Solution Development



The course materials and lectures are in English. To benefit fully from the instruction, students need an understanding of the English language and completion of the prerequisites.



Course Outline

Module 1: Introduction to Collaborative Solution Development

Overview of collaborative solutions

Designing a collaborative solution

Overview of Outlook 2000 features

Developing applications with Outlook 2000

Using the built-in features of Exchange Server

Planning the testing environment



Module 2: Creating and Managing Public Folders

Introduction to public folders

Creating public folders by using Outlook 2000

Using public folder servers

Using Exchange Server public folder replication



Module 3: Creating Forms by Using Microsoft Outlook 2000

Introduction to Outlook 2000 forms

Building a simple Outlook 2000 form

Working with controls

Working with fields

Performing actions

Using Office document forms

Persisting form design



Module 4: Working with Views by Using Microsoft Outlook 2000

Customizing views

Customizing table views

Working with custom views



Module 5: Introduction to Programming Microsoft Outlook 2000

Introduction to the Outlook object model

Using VBScript to develop in Outlook 2000

Using the Outlook object model



Module 6: Programming Forms by Using Microsoft Outlook 2000

Working with Outlook 2000 items

Using Outlook 2000 form events

Using mail messages

Creating a meeting or appointment

Assigning, delegating, or self-imposing a task

Creating a contact

Creating a distribution list

Creating a journal entry

Creating a note

Creating a post to a public folder



Module 7: Working with the Microsoft Outlook 2000 Object Model

Using the Application object

Using the NameSpace object

Using the MAPIFolder object

Working with Outlook 2000 items programmatically

Using the Explorer object

Using the Inspector object

Working with the Outlook bar



Module 8: Creating a Digital Dashboard

Creating a Digital Dashboard

Creating folder home pages

Using the Outlook view control

Customizing Outlook Today



Module 9: Creating Team Folder Applications

Introduction to Outlook 2000 team folder applications

Deploying the Team Folders Wizard

Using the Team Folder Wizard

Customizing Team Folder Templates



Module 10: Creating COM Add-ins

Introduction to COM add-ins

Developing a COM add-in

Working with a COM add-in project

Working with command bars

Creating custom property pages for Outlook 2000



Module 11: Accessing Data from the Outlook 2000 Client

Introduction to data access in Outlook 2000 solutions

Using Office Web components

Using ADO

Retrieving data from an ADO data source

Updating data in an ADO data source

Accessing Exchange Server information



Module 12: Integrating Collaboration Data Objects Within an Outlook 2000

Solution

Introduction to CDO

Using the CDO Library in collaborative applications

Working with messages and message properties

Working with the CDO object model

Using the CDO Rendering Library in collaborative applications



Module 13: Using the Microsoft Exchange Server Event Service

Introduction to the Exchange Server Event Service

Introduction to event scripts

Writing an event script

Debugging event scripts

Using event scripts in solutions

Exchange Server routing



Module 14: Site Server Integration

Expanding search options

Creating a custom search solution

Building search pages



Module 15: Deploying an Outlook 2000 Solution

Deploying an application

Testing the installation