Make Outlook 2007 happy with Exchange 2007 Web Services

Exchange 2007 uses Web services to support certain crucial functionality and both Exchange Administrators and developers need to be aware of this. Examples of such services are discovering mailbox connection settings, finding out free/busy information, setting out-of-office, downloading offline address books and accessing mailbox content. Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 is the primary consumer of these services but they are also used by other internal components such as when doing cross forest free/busy lookups. Indeed, supporting cross forest operations becomes much easier with the introduction of the Autodiscover Web service. It is the Client Access Server (CAS) that supports these Web services, and so in this session we first look at its architecture and then move on to the individual Web services with the main focus being the Autodiscover and Availability Web services. We look at how the services work and take a detailed look at how Outlook 2007 benefits from these services, allowing you to make informed decisions about how to best architect and deploy CAS servers within your own organization. Exchange Web Services also support integrating line-of-business applications with information stored in Exchange. Examples include calendaring and contact applications or applications that access other content from the Exchange store, like creating, editing, and sending messages or handling tasks. This session therefore also gives an overview of the generic capabilities of Exchange Web Services in order for you to have an appreciation of how they may be used in your line-of-business applications.