Programming Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange, Second Edition (DV-MPS Programming)

Chapter 7

This chapter looks at how Microsoft Outlook ties into the World Wide Web and is broken into five main sections: Outlook Today, Active Server Pages (ASP), Outlook Web Access (OWA), Windows 2000 and IIS 5.0, and the Outlook HTML Form Converter. We start by examining Outlook Today, which is an HTML feature introduced in Outlook 2000. Then we'll cover the basics of ASP—the foundation for Outlook and the Web. We'll move on to an overview of installing and configuring OWA. OWA technology is based on Active Server Pages and Microsoft Collaboration Data Objects (CDO), and it's used to access information on Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS). We'll finish with a discussion of the Outlook HTML Form Converter. The Form Converter is a tool to help you convert your Outlook forms into a Web-based format that integrates OWA.