With Outlook 2007, users can view calendars and contact lists stored on SharePoint sites, and create and manage sites for editing documents and organizing meetings. Outlook 2007 and Windows SharePoint 2007 support a new set of significantly enhanced functionality including:

 

• Read/write access to SharePoint items: calendars, tasks, contacts, discussions, and documents
• Synchronization of offline support of document library and lists
• Ability to check out and edit documents when offline
• Roll-up views of calendars and tasks across multiple lists and sites
• Unified view of personal and SharePoint tasks in Outlook 2007

 

Exchange Server 2007 is obviously something that groupSPARK and our partners have been waiting for. There are significant improvements over Exchange Server 2003. Here are just a few of those improvements…

• Advanced Anti-SPAM and Anti-Virus protection
• New data replication capabilities
• Unified messaging with fax and voice mail
• Improved performance and scalability

And this is just the tip of the iceberg.

As with all Microsoft software releases, there are many improvements over the previous release.

Outlook 2007 has a redesigned look and feel of its messaging interface, which makes composing, formatting, and acting on information an easier and more intuitive experience. You now get all the Outlook 2007 rich features and capabilities in an accessible location, which makes it easier to navigate your options.

Users benefit from a new scheduling assistant that automates time-consuming calendaring tasks, the ability to schedule and customize out-of-office communications, and managed folders that facilitate compliance needs.

You can connect Windows SharePoint Services documents, calendars, contacts, tasks, and other information to Office Outlook 2007, giving you a central place to manage your information.

These are but a few of the major process improvements that you will see in Outlook 2007.

With Microsoft releasing their 2007 products, they will be generating a tremendous amount of buzz about products and services that you have in common with them. Monitor their actions and when a press release or new set of marketing collateral is put into the main stream, alert your customers or better yet, forward the information directly to them.

For the month of January we are giving away free mailboxes. All you have to do is sign up at least 10 new mailboxes in the month and we will give you 1 free month for all those mailboxes. But it gets better. the more mailboxes you sign up the more free months you get.

>10 mailboxes - 1 free month
>20 mailboxes - 2 free months
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You can take this extra cash and use it to entice more customers to Hosted Exchange or keep it for yourself.