Release Notes - Microsoft Exchange 2000 Portlets
Oracle9iAS
Portal Developer Kit (PDK)
Microsoft Exchange 2000 Portlets
Release Notes
| Creation Date: |
December 24, 2002 |
| Status: |
Production |
Portlet Name:
|
exchange
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| Version: |
Microsoft Exchange 2000 Portlets
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Contents
System Requirements
Release 9.0.4.0
Release 9.0.2.6.0
Release 9.0.2.4.0
Installation
Upgrading to Microsoft
Exchange
2000 Portlets 9.0.2.6.0
Known Issues
System Requirements
The following are the recommended and minimum requirements to use and
install the Microsoft Exchange 2000 Portlets:
| Application Server |
Oracle9iAS Containers for J2EE (OC4J)
v9.0.2. |
| Oracle9iAS Portal Version |
3.0.9.8.2 (and later), 9.0.2.x |
| Browsers |
Netscape 4.0.8 and above,
Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0.1 with Service Pack 1 and above |
| Microsoft Exchange Server |
2000 |
| Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) |
5.0 |
Note: You may encounter JavaScript errors when
using a browser older than what is listed above.
Release 9.0.4.0
Documentation update.
Release 9.0.2.6.0
New Feature
The Microsoft Exchange 2000 Portlets are PDK - URL based portlets and
these use the inline rendering feature. The inline rendering feature
enables all
the internal links within the portlet to be rendered within the same
portlet
container. So, if you wish to render the internal links inline, set the
<inlineRendering>
tag value in the provider.xml file to true (which
is
the initial value). If you want to enable all the portlet internal
links
to be opened in a new browser window, you may change this value to false.
Save and close the provider.xml file.
Release 9.0.2.4.0
The Microsoft Exchange 2000 Portlets emulate a web interface to
Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server. Currently there are 3 set of components
exposed by Microsoft
Exchange 2000 Server:
1. Inbox
2. Contacts
3. Calendar
Independent portlets are provided to access each of the above
components. These portlets render functionalities of OWA (Outlook Web
Access) in the Oracle9iAS
Portal environment, thus leveraging the advantages of Oracle9iAS
Portal
while providing a web access to Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server.
Installation
Follow the instructions within the Installing
the Microsoft Exchange 2000 Portlets article.
Upgrading to Microsoft
Exchange
2000 Portlets 9.0.4.0
The upgrade path to be followed depends on the version of the Microsoft
Exchange
2000 Portlets already installed. Please follow the instructions in the
relevant
sections below to upgrade these portlets:
Upgrading from Microsoft Exchange 2000 Portlets versions prior to
PDK-November
to this version.
In this case, please install this version of Microsoft Exchange 2000
Portlets
independent of your previous installation. Please follow the
instructions in the Installing the
Microsoft Exchange 2000 Portlets document for the steps involved.
Upgrading from Microsoft Exchange 2000 Portlets versions
PDK-November or after, to this version.
On extracting the pdk.zip file into a temporary directory,
say
C:\temp,
you can find Microsoft Exchange 2000 Portlets in the C:\temp\pdk\solutions\exchange
directory. From this directory, copy the exchange.ear
file to the $IAS_HOME(MID_TIER)/j2ee/OC4J_PORTAL/applications
directory. The new exchange.ear will automatically be
redeployed.
Known Issues
- The Contacts portlet allows the user to filter contacts by last name
starts
with. However, the filter actually returns contacts that
contain
the given string. This is an issue with Microsoft's CDO library.
According
to CDO documentation, the filter on the PR_SURNAME
field should filter last names by the starts
with
condition (see the comments about FL_PREFIX
in this MSDN page).
- There are some known performance issues with CDO sessions and
ASP
sessions. Due to Remote Procedure Call (RPC) limitations, there may be
a
scalability limitation to using CDO-based applications (refer to pp.
349-350
of Piemonte and Jamison, "Developing Applications Using Outlook 2000,
CDO,
Exchange and Visual Basic", 1999).
- The Microsoft Exchange portlets have not yet been tested for the
scenario where the Microsoft IIS server and the Microsoft Exchange
server reside in
different domains. It is assumed that this could be successfully
achieved if there is a mutual trust relationship between the two
separate domains and
if the users from the Microsoft Exchange domain are given the right to
log
on locally to the IIS server.
| Revision History: |
| Revision No |
Last Update |
| 9.0.2.4.0 |
October 22, 2002 |
| 9.0.2.6.0 |
December 24, 2002 |
| 9.0.4.0 |
June 02, 2003 |
|
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