Exchange and Outlook Related Links and Resources

• Slipstick Systems is maintained by author, consultant, Microsoft MVP and Outlook guru Sue Mosher. Sue devotes an incredible amount of energy and enthusiasm to this web site. This site deserves a place in your Favorites folder! Well organized and a ton of information about customizing Outlook and Exchange. Visit this site once and you will be coming back! This is one of the best Exchange / Outlook sites on the Internet. (Sue, udabest! Sniff, sniff, you are my hero! I don't know how you keep up with everything you do.)
• Exchange Stuff is a great site with lots of links and info. This is definitely a place you will want to visit!
• Exchange Software is a great place to go for third party software related to Exchange Server. Ever wanted to make Exchange do something that it is not prone to do? Here is the first place to go to find the software you are looking for.
• Simpler-Webb, Inc. has great resources for both Microsoft Exchange Server as well as Internet Security. 
• The Exchange Administrator's Mailing list is a great resource for any Exchange administrator. It generates a lot of messages though, sometimes as many as 100 messages per day, but there are a lot of very informed people that participate and answer questions on this list. It is educational to just sit and read the messages that come back and forth. For more information, check out the SWINC.COM Exchange FAQ page . Before posting questions, make sure that you have scanned the Microsoft Knowledge Base and read the Exchange Admin Mailing List archives. Many common questions are asked quite often and you may risk raising the ire of one of the more active gurus if you ask a question that was answered the day before. The signal-to-noise ratio on this list is sometimes a little high, but the information I get from it is usually worth it.
• This page is a list of a lot of Exchange links that I have not verified lately. If some of the links don't work, I apologize in advance.

Exchange Products

This is a list of companies / products that I have researched or used with Exchange 2000 and found them to be useful, or even indispensable.

•  C2C Systems' MaX Compression tool is an Outlook client extension that compresses ('Zips) attachments BEFORE they leave the client.  This can dramatically reduce WAN bandwidth requirements and Exchange server storage requirements.

• Ecora Software's Configuration Auditor for Microsoft Exchange helps prepare documentation for your Exchange 5.5 and 2000 organizations. This tool can be invaluable and the offer additional tools for Active Directory, Cisco routers, Windows NT servers, Novell NetWare servers, and Oracle databases.  They offer a free trial for a single server.

• Clearswift Corporation's MIMEsweeper is content inspection system that works with SMTP, Exchange and Lotus Notes systems. This software can detect unauthorized content and attachments, pornography, and even proprietary information that may be leaking out of your organization through e-mail.

• Praetor is an SMTP mail scanner that helps to detect spam and unauthorized content. It is easier to configure than MIMEsweeper.

• Directory Wizards makes a product called Profiler that allows a user to update their contact information stored in the Exchange 5.5 directory or the Active Directory via a web page.

• Advantage International Inc. makes CalendWare, a product that synchronizes a private calendar with a public calendar.  This is great for the boss that wants her calendar in a public folder for everyone to see.

• Rupp Technology makes a cool product called AutoSpell for Microsoft Outlook Web Access that performs spell checks in Outlook Web Access.  Neat product!