Building Remote Solutions With Microsoft Exchange And Outlook

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Building Remote Solutions With Microsoft
Exchange And OutlookRobert Ginsburg ECMS,
Inc. www.ecms.net
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Key Messages

• Coupled with Exchange, Outlook provides a robust
  platform for remote solutions
• Understanding and managing replication is key to
  success
• Enterprise application features (e.g.,
  distributed business rules, form control) must
  be implemented for the remote user
• Offline security is critical to acceptance

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Remote User Characteristics

• Works predominantly off the network
• Has limited access to professional IT help
• Usually phone support only
• Network access may be restricted
• firewalls, permissions, protocols
• No guarantees of service
• Even Internet access is not truly ubiquitous

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Offline Applications Must

• Provide current data
• Identify users and their roles
• Enforce business rules
• Track user operations

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Replication Issues

• Mailboxes and Public Folders
• Conflict Management
• Use transactions to minimize conflicts
• Use rules to send conflicts to trained personal
• Performance
• Minimize change events
• Update everything in one process if any change
  is necessary

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Demonstration

• Messaging transactions
• Minimizing user-generated conflicts in an
  offline folder

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Security Issues

• User identification
• Profile credentials
• Certificates and Keys
• Role identification
• DLbased
• GALbased
• ACLbased
• Certificate

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DemonstrationUser and Role Identification

• Security
• Identifying a user role using several different
  mechanisms

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Application Issues

• Outlook forms
• Guaranteeing availability
• Code management
• Business Rules
• Change management
• Expiration of rules

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Demonstration

• Application Management
• Creating and manage an offline form, function,
  and rule library

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Recap

• Outlook and Exchange are solid platforms for
  remote solutions
• We must manage replication
• We must distribute our business rules in a way
  that is accessible from many systems
• We can secure our systems by understanding the
  mechanics of CDO and Outlook

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