Microsoft® SharePoint® 2007 for Office 2007 Users

Chapter 8. Microsoft Office Outlook 2007

As you have there have been many changes in the Office applications to increase the integration with SharePoint, Microsoft Office 2007, and Outlook 2007 being no exception. In this chapter, you will look at working with SharePoint data from within Microsoft Outlook 2007 and using Outlook features inside your SharePoint team sites. The examples in this chapter have been carried out on a Windows XP Pro PC using Outlook 2007 connected to Microsoft Exchange 2007. If you are not using Exchange 2007, you may find that some of the examples may not run as expected. In some cases, menu options available within SharePoint that enable you to link your various list data to Outlook 2007 have already been discussed. In this chapter, you will look again at these options and see how they actually work out in practice. You will look at working with Tasks and calendars from both sides and see how you can use Outlook 2007 to take your data offline and work with documents using only Microsoft Outlook 2007. You will also look at how you can email-enable lists and, using email, post data directly to SharePoint. Later, the book will also discuss how you can use the record management features of Exchange Server to enable compliance with email data within the SharePoint record management environment.

What's New in Outlook 2007

Outlook 2007 is slightly different from the other applications in the Office 2007 suite in that the Ribbon has not been made available globally ...