Acknowledgments

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Writing a book is never a one-person job. It always involves help from other people, who are either reviewing your work or teaching you things you never knew before. The first people to thank are the folks at Microsoft Press, especially Eric Stroo, John Pierce, Victoria Thulman, Marzena Makuta, Ben Ryan, Michelle Goodman, Roger LeBlanc, Rob Nance, and Dan Latimer. Their hard work is greatly appreciated.

Thanks are owed to a number of people throughout Microsoft who helped in one way or another with this endeavor. First and foremost, thanks must go to the members of the Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Outlook teams, who contributed to my knowledge of both Exchange and Outlook. These people include Jim Van Eaton and Bob Gering, who contributed their expertise of XML, XSL, WebDAV as well as OWA to the Training application in the final chapters; and the Exchange Developer team, including Nat Ballou, Andrew Sinclair, Naveen Kachroo, Robert Brown, Alex Hopmann, Jim Reitz, Lisa Lippert, Chuck Daniel, Dana Birkby, Seth Cousins, Brent Jensen, Charles Eliot, and Denise Smith. They filled me in on the latest and greatest of the Exchange 2000 technologies. Thanks must also go to the Exchange Solutions Product Unit and the Exchange SDK team, including Keith McCall, Janine Harrison, Michael Patten, Steve Biondi, and Bruce Hamilton, for providing a wealth of documentation and knowledge on Exchange development technologies. I owe a thank you to the Exchange Realtime Collaboration team, including Rick Ryan and Dalen Abraham. Another debt of gratitude must go to the Exchange management team, including Gord Mangione and Eric Lockard, because I stole the time of their valuable people to answer my questions.

On the Outlook team, I have to thank Ramez Naam, Chris Kimmel, and Don Mace for their support on all the Outlook technologies described in this book.

Thanks to Roman Lutz, who in the middle of a presentation I was giving on CDO, showed me some techniques on using CDO and Outlook together. You can find some of his techniques highlighted when I discuss the Outlook View control.

Thanks to Noam Topaz, who planted the idea and provided a kick start for the Site Server COM Add-in included in this book. His unique perspective on the types of applications you can build on the Exchange and Outlook platforms is refreshing. You can always depend on Noam to give you some unique ideas for applications you can build.

Thanks must also go to a number of other people who helped this process along by supporting it and understanding why I could never get together with them when chapters were due. This includes John, Kim, Michael and Katie Hand, Jen and Steve Fowler, Dan Fay, Rajeev and Arpita Agarwal, Ed Yoon, Marie Maxwell, Jim and Vivian West, Vicky and Gary Halperin, Paul Miller, Ria Johnston, and Joanne Bromwell.

A special thanks goes to Randy Lehner, who provided the excellent security application that you'll find described in the Exchange 2000 chapters.

Finally, I have to thank the people with whom I work with everyday for allowing me to complete this work. These people include Paul Gross, Russell Stockdale, Branch Hendrix, Stan Sorensen, and Gytis Barzdukas.