Exchange Server 5.5 and Outlook Complete

You'll start by learning how to use the Outlook desktop information manager like a pro to manage your e-mail, your contacts, your tasks, and your schedule. You'll then move on to creating custom forms in Outlook to streamline workflow and automate common tasks. After that, you'll learn how Exchange is organized, how it interoperates with Windows NT Server, and how to design an effective Exchange system for your company. Once you've mastered the basics of Exchange, you'll learn how to maintain, monitor, and optimize Exchange systems; how to maintain interoperability with the Internet; and how to diagnose server problems and recover from disaster. Finally, an indispensable command-line reference keeps the hidden power of Exchange at your fingertips when the GUI gets in the way.

Exchange 5.5 and Outlook Complete introduces you to the work of some of Sybex's finest authors, so you'll know where to go to learn even more about what's possible with Exchange Server and Outlook.

Table of contents

Introduction

Part I: Outlook 2000 Basics

Chapter 1: Getting Acquainted with Outlook 2000

Chapter 2: Sending and Receiving E-mail Messages

Chapter 3: Managing and Organizing Your E-mail

Chapter 4: Getting to Know Your Calendar

Chapter 5: Planning and Managing Appointments, Meetings,and Events

Chapter 6: Managing Contacts with Outlook

Chapter 7: Managing Tasks in Outlook

Chapter 8: Using the Journal and Notes

Part II: Outlook 2000 Advanced Topics

Chapter 9: Advanced Message Formatting and Management

Chapter 10: Setting User Preference

Chapter 11: Organizing Your Outlook Data

Chapter 12: Outlook and the Web

Chapter 13: Troubleshooting Common Outlook Problems

Part III: Developing Outlook Forms

Chapter 14: Improving Your Outlook

Chapter 15: Creating Custom Forms

Chapter 16: An Introduction to Visual Basic

Chapter 17: A More Complete Introduction to Visual Basic

Part IV: Exchange Server 5.5 Basics

Chapter 18: Introducing Exchange

Chapter 19: The Exchange Hierarchy

Chapter 20: The Architecture of Exchange

Chapter 21: Exchange and Windows NT Server

Chapter 22: Designing an Exchange System

Chapter 23: The Administrator and Its Menus

Part V: Exchange Server Advanced Topics

Chapter 24: Exchange Organization Design

Chapter 25: Maintenance Procedures

Chapter 26: Monitoring and Optimizing Exchange

Chapter 27: Exchange Internet Interoperability

Chapter 28: Diagnosing Server Problems

Chapter 29: Disaster Recovery

Part VI: Exchange Server Command-Line Reference

Chapter 30: Exchange Server Tools

Index