Chapter 8 -- Outlook and the Web

Chapter 8

This chapter looks at how Microsoft Outlook ties into the World Wide Web and is broken into four main sections: Outlook Today, Active Server Pages, Outlook Web Access, and The Outlook HTML Form Converter. We start by examining Outlook Today, which is an HTML feature introduced in Outlook 98. Then we'll cover the basics of Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP)—the foundation for Outlook and the Web. We'll move on to overview installing and configuring Outlook Web Access. Outlook Web Access technology is based on Active Server Pages and Microsoft Collaborative Data Objects, and it's used to access information on Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Internet Information Server (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 Outlook Web Access.