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Building And Deploying Team Collaboration
Solutions Keith McCallProduct Unit
ManagerExchange Solutions
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Overview

• Team Collaboration Vision and Requirements
• Team Productivity Update for BackOffice 4.5
• Demo
• Using AIM to incorporate your applications
• Application Example
• Exchange 2000 Server Team Collaboration
• Prototype Demo

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Team Collaboration Vision

• Enable knowledge workers
• To rapidly create virtual teaming environments
  that help them more effectively and efficiently
  share and track information
• To access and capture that information through
  shared applications
• To create and customize solutions that help teams
  work together to get their tasks accomplished

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End User Requirements

• Ad hoc end user creation of secure team
  environments/workspaces
• but need for IT control
• Virtual team workspaces need to include not just
  Team Discussion, but Calendaring, Customer
  Management, Project Management, Document Sharing,
  Real Time
• Access via a browser or by extending a personal
  productivity environment

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IT Requirements

• Shield end user from complexity while maintaining
  IT ability to manage process
• Provide integrated setup and administration of
  all components
• Host multiple teams on single server
• Support re-use and re-distribution of team
  workspaces and applications
• Scale team applications up to enterprise and out
  to the extranet
• Usage accounting, metering and monitoring

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Microsoft Technologies

• Team Productivity Update (Available September
  1999)
• Adds team workspace, 6 team out-of-the-box team
  applications, end user application instantiation
  and IT management
• Includes Outlook Team Folder Templates and
  Office Server Extensions for document sharing
• Focus on departmental (
• Exchange 2000 Team Collaboration Component
• Official name TBD. Target availability 1H00
• Integrate and extend team collaboration to the
  enterprise and extranet

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Team Productivity Update For BackOffice 4.5

• Now Available for ordering from
  http//www.microsoft.com/backofficeserver

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Product Focus Areas

• Enable teams to get results faster through a
  central location for team documents and data
• Enable development and deployment of team
  solutions on BackOffice Server 4.5
• Manageable by IT and extensible by Microsoft
  Solution Providers and Corporate IT
  Professionals

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Product Feature Areas

• Team Workspace Wizard
• Allows end users to create and customize
  workspaces
• Team Workspace hosted in Outlook 2000 or
  Internet Explorer 5.0
• Web-based Team Applications
• Outlook Team Folder Collaborative applications
  (team discussions, calendar, contacts, tasks)
• Team Documents and web collaboration that
  integrate with Office 2000 Server Extensions
• SQL Server based issues tracking template (with
  MOD 2000 update)
• Solutions framework (AIM) for integration of
  in-house and third-party applications

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Demonstration
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Architecture
User Environment
Customize Wizard
Team Workspace
Admin/ Config Console
Application Instantiation Model
Customizable Applications
OSE Team Documents
Third Party Web Apps
MOD Issue Tracking App
Outlook Team Folders
OSE Doc Discussions
Client Deploy Tool
Application Development Environment
Access 2000 Data Projects, SQL OLEDB
Provider, Office Developer Workflow Services
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Solutions Framework (AIM)

• Applications can provide URL interfaces for
  instantiation into the Team Workspace
• Configure UI for app configuration
• Instantiate tell app to clone itself, returning
  XML with (required)
• Launch launch URL to app
• Summary tell app to show summary UI
• Search tell app to expose search UI
• Offline tell app to take itself offline
• Delete tell app to archive/delete itself

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AIM App Setup/Config
Manage App Templates Wizard (MMC Based)
AppSetup
App Template
Instantiate URL
Instantiate URL
Create/Configure Team Workspace Wizard (MMC or
HTML)
XML Stream
AppSetup
Team Workspace Object (TWSObject)
XML Stream LaunchCommand URL Summary URL Search
URL Offline URL
App Instance
Methods LaunchCommand, Summary, Search, Offline
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AIM Runtime View
App Instance
Jscript/VBScript Call to TWSObject
App Instance
LaunchCommand Summary Search Offline
Team Workspace
App Instance
App Instance
App Instance
Pass User Identity
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Application Example

• Exchange 2000, Baby! HTML page
• Represents any application
• Make Exchange 2000, Baby! an AIM application
  template
• Add instantiate.asp
• Add Exchange 2000, Baby! template into
  Workspace Wizard via MMC
• Instantiate Exchange 2000, Baby! into Team
  Workspace

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Exchange 2000 Team Collaboration

• Target Availability 1H2000

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Focus Areas

• Extend the solutions framework and applications
  to the enterprise and the extranet
• Integrate with Active Directory and Web Folder
  hierarchy
• Deployable, customizable components
• Team collaboration (discussions, calendaring,
  conferencing)
• Customer management
• Project management
• Document management
• Help apply business processes to documents and
  data through common workflow services

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Feature Areas

• Run on pure Exchange 2000
• Removes SQL Server requirement with enhanced
  2000 functionality
• Extend membership to Enterprise and Extranet
• Select names and locations from Enterprise-wide
  Active Directory
• Include extranet users
• Integrate and Extend components shipping around
  Exchange 2000
• OWA, Instant Messaging, Workflow,

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Demonstration
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Architecture
User Environment
Customize Wizard
Workspace
Application Instantiation Model
Admin/ Config Console
Third Party Web Apps
Proposal Management
Project Management
Collaborative Applications
Customer Management
Customizable Applications
Client Deploy Tool
Application Development Environment
Microsoft Office Developer and Visual Studio
Integration Exchange and SQL OLEDB Providers
Document Services
Workflow Services
Mail Services
Services
Exchange 2000 Web Store
Polar Server
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Summary

• Microsoft is heavily investing in solutions
  frameworks that support collaboration and
  knowledge management business requirements
• We have technologies available today to address
  departmental team productivity needs
• Exchange 2000 provides many of the base
  capabilities that will enable collaboration from
  the department to the enterprise and the extranet

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Discussion
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