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Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 can help you deliver the advanced protection your company demands to safeguard its messaging environment-anywhere access people require to boost productivity and operational efficiency to cut costs. Tune in to a webcast or take part in a virtual lab to learn how Exchange Server 2007 can help you optimize your hardware and networking investments and provide anywhere access to e-mail, voice mail, calendars, and contacts from a variety of client computers and devices. Also, please - please provide feedback on these Labs here in our comments so we can improve them and provide the highest quality information on your behalf!

TechNet Labcast: Exchange Server 2007 (Part 1 of 5): Installing Service Pack 1 and Transitioning from Exchange Server 2003 to Exchange Server 2007 (Level 200)
Friday, December 5, 2008
11:00 A.M.-3:00 P.M. Pacific Time

TechNet Labcast: Exchange Server 2007 (Part 2 of 5): Configuring an Edge Server and Compliance and Retention Using Exchange Server 2007 RTM (Level 200)
Thursday, December 11, 2008
11:00 A.M.-3:00 P.M. Pacific Time

TechNet Labcast: Exchange Server 2007 (Part 3 of 5): Managing and Administering Exchange Server 2007 Using the Management Console and Management Shell (Level 200)
Friday, December 12, 2008
11:00 A.M.-3:00 P.M. Pacific Time

TechNet Labcast: Exchange Server 2007 (Part 4 of 5): Configuring Unified Messaging and Enabling Remote Client Access (Level 200)
Thursday, December 18, 2008
11:00 A.M.-3:00 P.M. Pacific Time

TechNet Labcast: Exchange Server 2007 (Part 5 of 5): Using Local Continuous Replication and Cluster Continuous Replication (Level 200)
Friday, December 19, 2008
11:00 A.M.-3:00 P.M. Pacific Time

BTW, here's a link to the main page:
http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9637353

- Joey Masterson

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Office Central automatically journalizes and organizes all in and outgoing messages, documents and contact information from your company in Outlook. With one easy access point to locate emails, contacts, files and documents, Office Central will improve the knowledge base within your company

Resource Central streamlines the co-ordination of meeting rooms, work stations, conferencing facilities and catering requirements – all from your familiar Outlook environment. Resource Central allows you to arrange a complete meeting including catering, table arrangement and extra service in less than 2 minutes. Version 3.0

WebTeam Central is an outlook web-based group calendar offering an overview of multiple Outlook calendars along with intuitive scheduling tools. It gives managers, receptionists and co-workers an instant and easy web-based overview of their colleagues.

Exchange Central is a client based group calendar offering a user friendly overview of multiple Outlook calendars as well as powerful scheduling and reporting tools. It allows team leaders, receptionists and switchboard operators an easy overview when planning and/or booking resources. Available in Danish, English, French and German.

Account Central decreases the administrative burden on key IT personnel by allowing secretaries, supervisors or other authorized personnel to update select portions of the Active Directory. Authorized personnel can automatically email a whole distribution list allowing users to view and update their information with Account Central.

This is a heads up that Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 is in the final stages of getting released and should be out in a couple of days. The next step for the Exchange team will be to release the Update Rollup onto the Download Center and then publish it to Microsoft Update. Microsoft Update publishing will happen 2-3 weeks after the Download Center publishing, due to internal policies and processes. We will let you know when this happens.

Regarding the overall patching experience, we have addressed the issue of Exchange 2007 managed services might time out during certificate revocation checks. While we will have a full list of issues fixed when the Rollup releases, some of major issues are:

• CDCR: Need an option to apply ELC policy to only the root instead of applying it recursively to root and all subfolders
• CDCR: Add generatePublisherEvidence enabled="false" to Exchange Services Config Files
• SCR does not copy logs in a disjoint namespace scenario
• SCR cannot be enabled when DNS suffixes differ on source/target in disjoint namespace scenarios
• Exchange 2007 CAS cannot copy the OAB from the OAB share on Windows Server 2008-based Exchange 2007 CCR clusters 
• Messages get stuck in outbox on Windows Mobile 6.1 devices When using  CAS proxy
• CDCR: MSI patching doesn't update logon.aspx if the file is modified by customer

PS. The "CDCR" listed in titles above stands for "Critical Design Change Request" - as in actual design changes that we took on in this Rollup (we usually take on a few of those in every Rollup)

- Scott Roberts, Nino Bilic

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The Living in Outlook series is about sharing tips and workflows around real-world scenarios. We’ll start the conversation with a topic – you can add to it by posting your tips and workflows in the comments!

In my last blog post I talked about how I use Message Templates and how to create them.

You may have noticed in my example template that I have special text to remind me to insert updated graphs and tables into my status reports. While I could continue to do this manually and risk forgetting to add them, I instead decided to save myself tons of time by using the “Paste as link” functionality in Outlook!

For this to work, I have an Excel file which I keep up-to-date with the latest data and graphs for each status report.

Here’s how to insert a link to those graphs so that the template is always up to date:

1. Copy the content from the Excel sheet (graph or table).
2. In Outlook, place the cursor where you want the graph to be, click on the lower half of the Past Button and choose Paste Special.
3. In the dialog box that appears choose Paste link on the left-hand side. Then choose Microsoft Office Excel Chart Object (or Microsoft Office Excel Worksheet Object for tables), and click OK.
4. And that’s it! The next time you open up the template file, you will get the following prompt:
5. Choose Yes and the latest changes to the graphs and tables in your Excel workbook are now present in your template!

Thanks to the power of Outlook message templates and Paste Link, updating the information in your templates is easier than ever.

As always, let us know how you use this feature to make your Outlook experience even better!

Jed Brown
Outlook Program Manager

Taglocity for Outlook enables users to assign unlimited keyword “tags” to any Outlook items such as email, contacts, calendar entries, etc. This helps create an organizational system better adapted to business use. For instance, instead of forcing content into conventional folder structures that are far too rigid and often redundant or ambiguous, each tag essentially acts as a virtual folder, thus reducing the need for folder hierarchies. People can set multiple tags on their emails, archive them in a single folder, and then quickly find them later with dynamic tag filtering or search. Tags also provide additional context to keyword searches which improves the relevancy of search results. To help improve organizational efficiency, Taglocity can also automate common tasks by running actions when tags are set, such as turning email into appointments, assigning additional tags, or automatically moving messages into specified folders. Tags can also be automatically assigned to incoming email based on user specified criteria. Version 2.0

TaskSync improves task coordination between users in Outlook and automatically updates your SharePoint portal with the latest task and event information. When using SharePoint as a common repository for Outlook email, task, and event data, TaskSync ensures that everyone has the same information. TaskSync automatically updates SharePoint with the latest data that users need access to. Version 2.5