Acknowledgments

I would like to thank all the people who helped develop this book on many different levels. First, I'd like to thank all the people at Microsoft Press who worked very hard to make this the best book on Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Outlook programming on the market. The acquisitions manager Eric Stroo and managing editor John Pierce provided invaluable feedback and guidance when I first started writing this book. Also, I am forever indebted to Victoria Thulman, the book editor, and Robert Lyon, the technical editor. They scoured and refined every word and piece of code in the book.

In the Exchange and Outlook teams here at Microsoft are a number of people I'd like to thank for their quick responses to the questions I had throughout the writing of this book. These people include Seth Cousins, Dana Birkby (Mr. MAPI), Chuck Daniel, Doug Wood, Mike Patten, Jim Reitz, Lucretia Abulet (her middle name should be ADSI), Steve Fowler, Behrooz Chitsaz, Steven Parker, Frank Truong (The Event Scripting Guru), Ed Beck, Bill Jacob, Andrew "Routing Objects" Wallace, Kevin Kahl, Chris Lodwig, Greg Bott, and Ramez Naam.

I'd like to extend a special thank you to Ria Johnston for her help with the HTML applications throughout the book. She taught me some HTML tricks that I never even knew existed.

Another special thanks goes to John Hand, who provided his ideas, support, and extraordinary creative talents to this book. Without John's constant encouragement, I wouldn't have been able to finish it.

Finally, I'd like to thank my team for their encouragement throughout this endeavor, especially Rich Tong, Russ Stockdale, Dave Malcolm, Bart Wojciehowski, Branch Hendrix, Stan Sorenson, and Rajeev Agarwal.