Article ID: 241176 - Last Review: August 9, 2004 - Revision: 3.3

OL2000: (CW) General Information and System Requirements for Team Folders

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IMPORTANT: The Microsoft Outlook Team Folder Kit has been removed from the Microsoft Web site due to a security issue with the Outlook View Control. For additional information about this security risk, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

303835 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303835/EN-US/ ) OL2000: The Outlook View Control Exposes Unsafe Functionality

Information provided later in this article about obtaining Team Folders is not applicable until an updated version of Team Folders is made available. This article will be updated at that time.

SUMMARY

Microsoft Outlook 2000 Team Folders provide the capability for application designers to create customized collaborative applications that Outlook users can use to share information and collaborate with co-workers. The Team Folder Wizard is designed to work in conjunction with Outlook 2000 and Microsoft Exchange Server. This new Outlook 2000 add-on blends the flexibility and collaboration of public folders with the intuitiveness of the Web. It enables Outlook users to create a location for shared information, select access rights, and then collaborate with co-workers.

This article lists the system requirements and unsupported environments for Team Folders. Topics included are:

How to Obtain Team Folders
Network requirements for running Team Folders
Client requirements for running Team Folders
Unsupported environments

NOTE: Certain modules provided by Microsoft Office 2000 or Outlook 2000, are required for complete Team Folders functionality. Team Folders Setup will prompt you for the Office compact disc or shared network location, to complete the installation.

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MORE INFORMATION

How to Obtain Team Folders

The Team Folders Kit including the Team Folders Wizard is available for download at the following Web site:

http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/tmfolder.aspx (http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/tmfolder.aspx)

A Team Folders white paper entitled, "Introduction to Microsoft Outlook 2000 Team Folder Wizard" is available from the following Web site:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa155697(office.10).aspx (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa155697(office.10).aspx)

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Network Requirements for Running Team Folders

The following network configurations are required to administer Team Folders on the network:

Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0 or later.
Public folders with Owner permissions for the user running the Team Folders Wizard.
File, FTP, or HTTP server, with permissions to create folders and files, for the user running the Team Folders Wizard.

The FTP server requires HTTP addresses mapped to FTP addresses. Recommended for the HTTP server is Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0 or later, with server extensions for Microsoft FrontPage 98 or later, or Microsoft Office 2000 Server Extensions.

NOTE: Other HTTP servers can be used only if the client computers have the Web Publishing Wizard installed.

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Client Requirements for Running Team Folder

Users who do not need to create Team Folders home pages, only need Outlook and Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 installed.

To use Team Folders and create home pages, you need the following minimal configuration:

Outlook installed in Corporate or Workgroup mode, with a profile including the Microsoft Exchange Server service. Running Team Folders in Internet Mail Only is not supported.
Collaboration Data Objects support for Outlook. If this is not currently installed, Team Folders will install this component on demand.
Web Server Extension Support for HTML Publishing, and HTML Scripting Support. If these components are not installed, Team Folders will install these components on demand.
Internet Explorer 5 or later.
Microsoft Web Publishing Wizard is recommended if you publish to Web servers that do not have the FrontPage or Office Server Extensions installed.
Microsoft Word 2000, Excel 2000, and PowerPoint 2000 are recommended if the Team Folders includes the Documents Library.

To Obtain the Support Files

Web Server Extension Support for HTML Publishing, and HTML Scripting Support, are located in Office or Outlook Setup, under Office Tools.

Locate "Web Publishing" under "Office Server Extensions Support" for HTML Publishing. Locate "Web Scripting" under "HTML Source Editing" for the HTML Scripting Support.

You can install the Web Publishing Wizard from Internet Explorer 5 Setup, or from the Windows Update site.

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Unsupported Environments

The following network configurations are not supported:

Running Team Folders on a system running Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0, Terminal Server Edition
Accessing Team Folders through any Terminal Server client
Accessing and running Team Folders with the Outlook Web Access client

The following scenario will not be supported: