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Summary: A LOT of information
Review: I thought I knew everything about Exchange before reading this book, but I can see I was mistaken. This book contains a LOT of information of different topics that any Exchange/Outlook admin or developer would find useful.
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Summary: Good for advanced developers
Review: I'll admit I'm just starting with Outlook and Exchange. I picked this book up since it had both names in the title. It was a little too deep for me but is probably better suited for more advanced Outlook/Exchange developers. However, from what I saw, once you get over the learning curve, this book will be an excellent resource!
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Summary: Excellent book!
Review: I'm just starting out developing applications on Exchange 2000 and Outlook 2000. I also have done a bunch of Exchange 5.5 development. This book helped me understand both Exchange 5.5 and 2000 as well as how to build some really killer apps on Outlook. It starts out with the basics of Outlook application development and then quickly goes into more advanced topics such as agents, ADSI, CDO, XML and workflow. My copy is very worn if that's an indication of how often I use this book!
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Summary: This book is awesome!
Review: If you have ever done or want to do any programming with Exchange or Outlook, you need this book. I bought it to help out with a project I was doing and it had sample code that helped me add features to my project that I didn't think were even possible with Exchange. Plus, the author answered questions directly when I emailed him! If you need to learn how to build applications with any version of Exchange or Outlook, pick this book up. You won't be disappointed that you did!
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Summary: The one and only complete Exchange 5.5 development guide
Review: If you need a jumpstart into Exchange 5.5 development go and get this book immediately. It provides not only a good overview of Outlook 2000 development it covers also building Web-enabled applications interfacing with Exchange Server 5.5. Also a wealth of information re: server-side scripting and routing capabilities are included. This will give you the immediately start into developing your own applications leveraging all those technologies.I guess Tom is now working on the second edition using Exchange 2000 as the next generation of Microsoft's messaging and collaboration foundation. Good work Tom!
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Summary: Buy this book first!
Review: if you want THE quality Exchange/Outlook reference. I made the mistake of buying 'Building Collaborative Web Applications with Exchange 2000 Server' (funny thing since I wanted to build a collaborative web application with Exchange 2k!). However this is the book I should have bought - covers everything I needed to know, and included an example of almost exactly the application I needed to build.
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Summary: Excellent ground-breaking into Exchange development.
Review: Most Microsoft Press books aren't the best in their game. This is an exception. Effectively covers most aspects of Outlook/Exchange 5.5 development, from a solid intro of VBScript to advanced CDO. From the authors and developers themselves behind the Exchange/Outlook business logic comes a manual that is accessible and progressive. Includes an excellent "Account Tracking" application, among other items, on a CD, through which many points are learned. Very pleased. A great first book for Exchange 5.5 DEV.
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Summary: No Help with Visual Basic
Review: Mr. Rizzo knows Outlook and exchange inside out. Unfortunately, he does not know how to explain it or how to program. His explanations of the code are too little and too obscure. Even the VB examples on the CD will not run. If you have a need to manipulate Exchange from VB this is not the book you need.
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Summary: Excellent Overview and Resource
Review: Outlook and Exchange 2000 implement some of the coolest, most powerful technologies to provide a rich development platform. With the new services in Exchange 2000 (aka the Web Store) the future of custom solution development is going to change. I know that putting the power of the Exchange 2000 web store in my hands and leveraging it for my custom Office applications is going to be huge for me and for my customers. This book is the place to start understanding what Exchange 2000 offers, how Outlook takes advantage of it, and how you can take advantage of it. I can't wait to see what the next version of OUtlook does to make this integration even more powerful.
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Summary: OK but needs more technical information
Review: Programming Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange is not really a programming book in the traditional sense, even though it introduces you to most of the high-level concepts necessary for using ADSI and ASP to interact with Microsoft Exchange. The last two chapters which explain how to get Exchange to work with ADSI--the real reason I bought the book--provide code samples that are only partially functional at best with only spotty, fairly useless commentary by the author. This leads me to believe that the author may not have understood the examples thoroughly. Getting Exchange to work correcly with ADSI can be a hair-pulling experience. This book would have been worth the money if it had sunk to a slightly lower level and provided more technical information.
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