Chapter 18 -- Developing with Exchange Server 2000

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Chapter 18

Microsoft Exchange Server 2000, which builds on the extensive collaborative features of Exchange Server 5.5, offers many exciting new capabilities. This chapter and Chapter 19 will discuss the main enhancements made to the Exchange Server platform. In both these chapters, we'll use a sophisticated sample program, called the Training application, to highlight these new development capabilities.

These are some of the most significant Exchange Server 2000 enhancements:

• OLE DB and Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) support
• Friendly URL access to every item in the Exchange Server database—meaning no more globally unique identifiers (GUIDs)!
• XML support
• A richer events model in the types of events supported and the programming of events
• A new version of Collaboration Data Objects (CDO)
• A new version of Microsoft Outlook Web Access (OWA) that's much easier to reuse
• An enhanced platform for real-time collaboration development
• A greatly improved and built-in workflow engine for building workflow applications

NOTE

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This chapter assumes you are running RC1 of Exchange Server 2000; its samples and code were written to work with RC1. Please note that the semantics and features listed in this chapter may change for the released version of Exchange Server 2000. Be sure to check the Microsoft Press Web site, http://mspress.microsoft.com, for any Knowledge Base articles that highlight new code samples for this book.