Sharepoint.Net: January 2010

Sunday, January 17, 2010

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So you want to save Outlook messages in SharePoint -
Out-of-the-box Outlook / SharePoint Integration
There are a number of ways you can save an email message to SharePoint using the native facilities of Outlook and SharePoint. These include:

Drag and drop to the Explorer View of a SharePoint document library
Connect to an Outlook discussion and save the message
Email-enable your SharePoint document libraries
Exchange 2007 Managed Folders
Unfortunately all of these approaches fall short in one way or another. Frustrations include attachments being split off and saved separately, poor naming of the saved message files, messages saved in EML format (which means that they cannot be opened in Outlook) and custom metadata not being prompted for immediately as the message is saved. more...
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