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927.0. "Exchange 5.0 now shipping" by AXEL::FOLEY (http://axel.zko.dec.com) Tue Mar 11 1997 18:17

	Exchange 5.0 has starting shipping.

							mike


Welcome to Microsoft Exchange 5.0 Online!
 (or E5Online for short)  

Welcome to the premier issue of E5Online!  E5Online is dedicated to
providing informative news and articles to the Microsoft Exchange
Community.  What you'll find in this issue:
*	March 1997 - Feature News
*	E5 Tech Talk
*	Did You Know?
*	Upcoming News, Events, & E5Online Features
*	The Last Word
To subscribe, please visit http://www.exchangeserver.com and register
with us on the Microsoft Exchange Community Site.  To remove yourself
from our list, please mailto:excomadmin@exchangeserver.com and place
UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line.

March 1997 - Feature News:

Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0 is Shipping!
It is with great excitement that the Microsoft Exchange Product Group
announces the broad availability of Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0.  This
major release incorporates native Exchange support for a broad range of
Internet protocols including POP3, HTTP, NNTP, LDAP in addition to our
already built in support for SMTP.  Join us, March 11th at 10:00 AM PST
for the online launch of Microsoft Exchange,
http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/launch and join in on the festivities
and find out more about Microsoft Exchange 5.0!

Get the Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0 Evaluation Kit for FREE.
Why not try Microsoft Exchange 5.0 for yourself?   Visit
http://www.exchangeserver.com/trial for your free evaluation version.
If you're already using the Exchange 5.0 RC1 evaluation, come download
the upgrade to the gold code of 5.0.

New Look, Enhanced  Content on the Microsoft Exchange Community Site
Chances are that you've visited the Microsoft Exchange Community site if
you're reading this newsletter.  If you haven't visited us lately, or
have never been to see us, come take a look.  In response to the great
feedback and interest in the Exchange Community Site, we've expanded the
content, and changed our look.  Come visit us today -
http://www.exchangeserver.com !  The Exchange Community site is designed
to provide online resources including discussion groups, chats, FAQs,
and links to Exchange Resources.

Free E-mail?
Not really, but close.  Announcing the Microsoft Exchange 5.0 Test
Drive.  What better to way to see how Microsoft Exchange 5.0 works on
the Internet than on the Internet?  Check it out at
http://www.exchangeserver.com/testdrive

Over the Hill?  Not on your life!!
Believe it or not, it's just around the corner.  Microsoft Exchange
Server will be celebrating it's first birthday.  Mark your calendars now
for the week of March 31st - we'll be hosting special Exchange Birthday
events, including live Chats with the Exchange Development Team,
Customers, and Marketing gurus.  More information to come - or visit
http://www.exchangeserver.com in the weeks ahead for the latest
information on this weeklong celebration.

E5 Tech Talk

Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0 Training Available
See the Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0 Training Web page at:
http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/training.htm
Microsoft has designed different levels of Microsoft Exchange Server
training based on your needs. Contact the Microsoft Authorized Technical
Education Center (ATEC) nearest you to sign up and register for a class!
Some of the classes are listed below:

#862 - Installing and Configuring Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0
This course is a great introduction to Microsoft Exchange Server. The
student will experience installing the product and will be exposed to
all the great functionality built into Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0! It
is one day in length.

LIVE ON March 1 -#771 - Core Technologies of Microsoft Exchange Server
5.0
This course has been upgraded to Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0 and
Windows NT 4.0. It is ideal for consultants, systems engineers, and mail
system administrators who are responsible for administering Microsoft
Exchange Server 5.0 on a day-to-day basis. This course is five days in
length, and serves as a prerequisite to the next two courses. 

LIVE ON April 1 #709 - Microsoft Exchange Server Multisite and Internet
Environments
#709 is our first course aimed towards the Microsoft Exchange Server
Enterprise. This course provides high level support professionals and
advanced administrators with the skills to configure, integrate, and
troubleshoot Microsoft Exchange Server in multisite and internet
environments. Specialized content such as connecting to Microsoft
Exchange Server or foreign mail systems securely over the Internet,
directory replication and routing, and defining costs are covered in
depth in this course.

LIVE ON July 1 #869 - Microsoft Exchange Server Troubleshooting and
Performance
This course will provide high level support professionals and advanced
administrators with the knowledge needed to troubleshoot and fine tune
Microsoft Exchange Server for maximum optimization. This course will be
two days in length.
New DLL Available for Microsoft Exchange Windows 95 Client 4.0 
The Microsoft Exchange Windows 95 client currently requires that the
Microsoft Client for Microsoft Networks redirector (Vredir.vxd) be
installed on the Windows 95 client. Because Microsoft Exchange uses
integrated security with the Windows NT Directory Services, the
Microsoft Exchange client needs validation from a Windows NT domain
controller. For NetWare-only environments using Microsoft Exchange
Server, this means both the Microsoft Network redirector and a NetWare
redirector must be installed on a Windows 95 client. This limitation is
a result of how the NTLM security subsystem was designed on Windows 95,
and is not the fault of the Microsoft Exchange Windows 95 client. The
Microsoft Exchange Windows 3.x and Microsoft Exchange Windows NT clients
do not have this requirement. 
The updated NTLM security DLL fixes this problem so that the Microsoft
redirector is no longer needed for the Exchange client to get validated.
It should be placed in the Windows\System subdirectory. This updated DLL
is found in the Windows 95 DCOM update on:
http://www.microsoft.com/oledev/olemkt/oledcom/dcom95.htm

LDAP Information URLs
Microsoft Exchange 5.0 support LDAP, but finding publicly available LDAP
resources can be difficult.  Check out these links for technical
information on LDAP:
*	LDAP FAQ - Does not cover version 3.
http://www.critical-angle.com/ldapworld/ldapfaq.html
*	LDAP version 3 overview - From Critical Angle.
http://www.critical-angle.com/ldapworld/ldapv3.html
*	LDAP Page - Links, overviews and news, from the University of
Michigan.  http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/ldap/
*	LDAP & X.500: Road Map & FAQ - From Stanford.
http://www-leland.stanford.edu/group/networking/directory/x500ldapfaq.ht
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*	Internet Directories - The Role of LDAP and X.500 - White paper
from DCL.  http://www.datcon.co.uk/docs/press/mdwhite1.htm
*	Directory of public LDAP servers
http://www.dante.net/np/pdi.html

New Features Overview:  Microsoft Exchange News Service (NNTP)
Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0 extends the reach of public folders to the
Internet with full support for the Internet standard Network News
Transport Protocol (NNTP). Microsoft Exchange Server supports
replication of newsgroups with any standards-based NNTP server. Any
public folder in Microsoft Exchange Server can be published as a
newsgroup for access from NNTP newsreaders or replication with other
NNTP servers.  For the full article see
http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/nntp.htm

Did You Know?
The March 1997 Did You Know focuses on the newly released Microsoft
Outlook Client (which also ships as part of Microsoft Exchange Server
5.0).

When using Microsoft Outlook - did you know?
*	In the Calendar, to select discontinuous days, hold down the CTL
key and use the monthly date navigator to select dates.  You can even
select discontinuous weeks by holding down the CTL key and clicking to
the left of different weekly rows.  Or, you can use keyboard shortcuts
to quickly change Calendar views.  Alt-1 displays 1 day, Alt-2 displays
2 days, and so on to Alt-9, which displays 9 days side-by-side.  You can
also hit Alt-"-" for Week mode and Alt-"=" for Month mode.
*	Instead of attaching big documents to e-mail, meeting requests,
contacts, etc., use a hyperlink if the document resides on a server or
intranet.  All Outlook items support rich text, so simply start typing
the URL (e.g. http://www.microsoft.com) or File:\\ and Outlook will
change the text to the hyperlink.  Click on the hyperlink and Outlook
will automatically launch your web browser or jump you to the net
location.  This saves on traffic for your mail server.  
*	If you have a large contact list, use Categories to create
subsets that you can sort and group by.  You can even create custom
categories.  Open a contact item, click on the Categories button at the
bottom of the form.  Click on Master Category List button.  Type in the
custom category and hit "Add".  For a mass e-mailing, drag and drop a
category of contacts into the Inbox icon on the Outlook bar, and Outlook
will automatically populate the To: field with all the e-mail addresses.

*	You can do Word mail merges with the Outlook Address Book.   In
addition, if you have a Category, such as Christmas Cards, on your
Contacts and you want to just send the letter to those people, you need
to first filter the Contacts by Category.  Select Christmas cards, copy
these Contacts to a new Contact folder (File_New Folder).  Then select
this folder as the Outlook Address Book you want to merge with.  
*	To forward a contact to another Outlook user, select the
contact, right mouse click, and choose "Forward."  Outlook will
automatically put the contact item into a mail message.  The recipient
simply has to drag and drop the contact item (from the mail message)
over the Contact icon (on the Outlook bar) and Outlook will
automatically add the item.

Upcoming News, Events, and E5Online Features

A Word from the Editor:
As with any first version release, we're always looking for ways to
improve, and E5Online is no different.  In coming issues we will be
implementing a Letters to the Editor section as well as posting and
including articles on Microsoft Exchange 5.0 that have been submitted by
you, the Microsoft Exchange Community.  Next month, we'll have a
suggestion box for you to provide us with direct e-mail feedback on what
types of content you'd like us to include in E5Online.  In the meantime,
thanks for checking us out and we look forward to sharing our next issue
of E5Online with you.

Events (National):
If you plan to be at Internet World in Los Angeles (March 12 to 14,
1997), visit us in the Microsoft product booth.  Microsoft Exchange
Product experts will be on hand to answer your questions and demonstrate
Exchange 5.0.  We're booth # 900 or see
http://www.microsoft.com/events/iworld/default.htm

Events (Online):

10:30 a.m. PST - Exchange Server 5.0 with the Microsoft experts
When:	March 11, 1997, 10:30 AM PST
Where:	http://backoffice.microsoft.com/chat/exchat.asp
What:	Discuss Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0 with the experts.  Join
Brian Valentine, GM Exchange, and Greg Lobdell, Group Product Manager to
discuss Exchange 5.0.

11:15 a.m. PST - Exchange Server 5.0 Customers discuss implementation
When:	March 11, 1997, 11:15 AM PST
Where:	http://backoffice.microsoft.com/chat/chat.asp
What:	Discuss Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0 with customers
implementing it today.  Sue Hallihan,  IT Director, Wang, and Chris
Hedger, Consultant to CRA Research & Technology to discuss their
Exchange 5.0 experiences.  Join the chat named #Messaging.

Events (Regional):

Las Vegas, NV:
Microsoft Exchange Communication and Collaboration Technical Solutions
Briefing
March 13, 1997 1:00 -  3:00PM 
Caesar's Palace 
3570 Las Vegas Blvd S. 
Las Vegas , NV 

Registration Information
Event Fee: none 
Phone Number: (800)836-8282 Hours of Operation: 5:30AM-5:30PM Mon-Fri
Pacific Standard Time 
Fax Number: (800)896-9329
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Bloomington, MN
Instant Groupware with Office 97 and Microsoft Outlook
March 13, 1997 8:30 - 11:30AM 
Microsoft - North Central 
8300 Norman Center Drive Suite 950 
Bloomington , MN 

Registration Information
Event Fee: N/A 
Phone Number: (800)550-4300 Hours of Operation: 5:30AM-5:30PM Mon-Fri
Pacific Standard Time 
Fax Number: (800)896-9329
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Phoenix, Arizona
Microsoft Exchange Communication and Collaboration Technical Solutions
Briefing
March 17, 1997 1:00 - 4:00PM 
March 27, 1997 8:30 - 11:30AM
Southwest District- MPR
2929 N. Central Ave Suite 1200 
Phoenix , AZ 

Registration Information
Event Fee: none 
Event Code: 11395
Phone Number: (800)836-8282 Hours of Operation: 5:30AM-5:30PM Mon-Fri
Pacific Standard Time 
Fax Number: (800)896-9329
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Albuquerque , NM
Microsoft Exchange Communication and Collaboration Technical Solutions
Briefing 
March 20, 1997 9:00 - 11:00AM 
PC Support 
2100 Airpark Road SE 
Albuquerque , NM 

Registration Information:
Event Fee: none 
Event Code: 11427
Phone Number: (800)836-8282 Hours of Operation: 5:30AM-5:30PM Mon-Fri
Pacific Standard Time 
Fax Number: (800)896-9329

The Last Word
That's all for this issue, we hope you've found the information we've
presented useful.  If you like what you saw, tell your friends about us.
We're always pleased to welcome new members to the Microsoft Exchange
Community.  And of course, we wouldn't be complete without a word from
our legal advisors:
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current view of Microsoft Corporation on the issues discussed as of the
date of publication. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market
conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part
of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any
information presented after the date of publication. This document is
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