Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010 Inside Out

The Outlook question

The perennial issue that comes to mind once Microsoft ships a new version of Exchange is what you should do with Outlook. In the past, Outlook and Exchange had a tenuous relationship. For whatever reasons in the depths of Microsoft politics, the two product groups didn’t work together particularly well, and despite the fact that Exchange was easily the most functional and powerful mail server to which Outlook could connect, the focus of the Outlook development group seemed to be far more on Internet mail servers. In some respects, this was natural because far more people use Outlook as part of the Microsoft Office suite in non-Exchange environments (home, college, and connecting to other email systems, including Gmail and ...