Microsoft Sharepoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit eBook

1068 Part X: Microsoft Office 2003 Integration with SharePoint Products and Technologies
Viewing SharePoint Products and Technologies Data
in Outlook
Outlook users can export any single contact or event item from a SharePoint list
to Outlook and view any page in a SharePoint site from within Outlook. In addition,
Outlook 2003 allows you to link any SharePoint contacts or events list to
Outlook. Outlook stores a copy of the data from the SharePoint list locally, and
updates occur automatically at periodic intervals.
Folder Home Pages
A folder home page is a Web page that Outlook displays when the user switches
to a particular Outlook folder. The most familiar example is the Outlook Today page
that displays information about your Inbox, Calendar, and Tasks folders when you
click the top-level folder of the hierarchy that contains your Inbox.
While you can customize the resource DLL file that contains the Outlook Today
page, a more common approach for an organization using SharePoint Products and
Technologies is to replace the built-in Outlook Today page with a home page of a
departmental Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services site or a corporate SharePoint
Portal Server 2003 portal site page. This technique works with any version of Outlook
starting with Outlook 2000.
To replace the Outlook Today page with another HTML page
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1. Right-click the folder at the top of the hierarchy that contains the main Inbox
folder. (Depending on the Outlook version, it might or might not be labeled
Outlook Today.) Then choose Properties.
2. On the Home Page tab of the Properties dialog (Figure 40-1), change the value
for Address to the URL of the SharePoint page you want to display.
Figure 40-1 A SharePoint site page used as a custom home page for an Outlook folder