Target Audience:
This course teaches developers the skills to build integrated solutions using Microsoft Outlook 2000 as the front-end application and Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft SQL Server as the primary back-end applications.
Pre-requisites:
Before attending this course, students must have the following pre-requisites:
Course 1080, Essentials of Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition 3.0, or equivalent knowledge
Purpose:
The course is designed to equip IT professionals with the tools for deploying Outlook 2000 in a network environment. At the end of the course, students will be able to identify the appropriate collaborative solution to meet the needs of the business; describe the logical and physical design of a collaborative solution and the tools used to create the solutions; create complex forms by using Outlook Forms Designer; use the Outlook object model to create collaborative applications; create and customize a Digital Dashboard; implement the Outlook View control; customize and create template applications by using the Team Folder Wizard; create component object model (COM) add-ins that employ command bars and custom property pages; use Microsoft ActiveX® Data Objects (ADO) to access SQL Server data from an Outlook form; use Microsoft Active Directory™ Service Interfaces (ADSI) to access Exchange Server Directory data; use Collaboration Data Objects (CDO) to access information on an Exchange Server; write event scripts that run on the Exchange Server Event Service; use routing objects to add workflow capabilities to a collaborative solution; integrate Microsoft Site Server to add indexing and search capabilities; and explain how to deploy a collaborative solution that includes ActiveX controls.
