Upgrading to Outlook 2000

Upgrading from Microsoft Exchange Client

Because both Microsoft Outlook 2000 and Microsoft Exchange Client are MAPI­compatible applications, Outlook can completely replace Exchange Client. Except for changes in the user interface and other features, you can continue working with e-mail messages in Outlook in the same way that you work with e-mail messages in Exchange Client. Outlook 2000 uses the same profile and other configuration information, and Outlook can use all Exchange Client extensions and custom forms. This means that users can exchange e-mail messages, and they can share public folders with Exchange Client users. Some exceptions are described in the following sections.

Toolbox   Outlook is not designed to run on the same computer as Exchange Client, but the Office Resource Kit includes the SwitchForms utility that allows you to run both Outlook and Exchange Client on the same computer. For more information about installing SwitchForms, see Microsoft Office Resource Kit for Office 97/98.

Unless you specify a profile, when you run Outlook 2000 for the first time, it uses the default e-mail profile to open your Personal Address Book (PAB) and personal folders; and it connects to the Exchange server and any other services that you specify in that profile.

Whether you configure the profile to deliver e-mail messages to the Inbox on the Exchange Server or to the Inbox in personal folders, Outlook 2000 continues to accept new e-mail in the same Inbox folder. After you install Outlook, you work with the same Inbox, Outbox, Sent Items, Deleted Items, and any other personal folders used by the Microsoft Exchange Client profile.

Tip   To make the new user interface of Outlook 2000 look more like the Exchange Client user interface, you can view the Outlook folder list by using the Folder List command (View menu). Later, you can choose to hide the folder list and then use the Outlook Bar exclusively for quick access to Outlook functions and Windows folders.

Outlook 2000 starts with the same profile configuration as Exchange Client, except that a new information service is added to the Outlook 2000 default profile. This allows Outlook and any other Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) application to use the Outlook Contacts folder as an e-mail address book. Outlook 2000 can also do the following:

• Recognize any folder views you define.
• Maintain the read or unread message status.

Toolbox   The Microsoft Office Resource Kit for Office 97/98 provides additional upgrading and file sharing information for Microsoft Exchange Client, including information about Exchange Client folders and views, client forms, and extensions. For more information, see Microsoft Office Resource Kit for Office 97/98.