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Chapter 40: Microsoft Outlook 2003 Integration with SharePoint Products and Technologies 1069
Tip You can display a page in a SharePoint site as a folder home page for
any Outlook folder by applying the procedure just shown to any folder. For
example, if you work with multiple SharePoint sites, you might create a folder
in Outlook named My SharePoint Sites, add a subfolder for each site, and
then set the home page of each subfolder to display that site’s home page.
Outlook 2003 stores the value for the custom Outlook Today page URL in the
Windows registry, under the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office
\11.0\Outlook\Today key, in a string value named UserDefinedUrl. An administrator
can set the default for that value to a SharePoint site page by using the Custom
Installation Wizard or Custom Maintenance Wizard in the Office Resource Kit to
deploy or update Outlook, or the administrator can enforce that value with a group
policy by using the policy template described later in this chapter, in the “Managing
Integration Features in Outlook” section. The Windows Server 2003 Deployment Kit:
Designing a Managed Environment, available for download from Microsoft’s website,
provides the foundation you need to understand and deploy Group Policy
within Microsoft Windows Server 2003.
Because SharePoint Products and Technologies provides support for the
vCard and iCalendar standards for data interchange, Outlook users can add any
single contact or event from a SharePoint list to their Outlook Contacts or Calendar
folder.
To add a contact or event from a SharePoint list to Outlook
1. In a contact or events list, click the hyperlink for the item you want to add to
Outlook.
2. Click the Export Contact or Export Event link.
3. When the File Download dialog appears, click Open to open the .vcf (vCard)
or .ics (iCalendar) file that you created.
4. Click Save and Close to add the resulting contact or appointment to your Outlook
folders.
You cannot export a recurring series of events using this technique. If you
open a recurring event from the All Events view, you will not see an Export Event
link. You can, however, export any individual occurrence from a recurring series by
opening it from the Calendar view and then following the procedure just shown.