Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 Administrator's Companion

Supporting Outlook 2007

Many features of Outlook 2007 are especially relevant in a book about Exchange Server 2007 because they involve interaction between the Outlook 2007 client and Exchange Server. These features include the ability to work while disconnected from the Exchange server and to let more than one user work with a specific computer.

Using Cached Exchange Mode

Exchange Server and Outlook form the two ends of a powerful communications system. Most of the time, people communicate while the programs are in direct contact with each other so that the give and take of the process can proceed freely.

However, recall from Chapter 1, that communication with messaging systems such as Exchange Server is asynchronous, which means that one party ...