Exchange & Outlook®: Constructing Collaborative Solutions

Setting Up a Collaborative Development Environment

One of your first steps, as collaborative solutions developers, is to create a development environment that provides all the services you require for your solutions and mimics the actual implementation of your messaging and collaborative infrastructure.

Many times, I have walked into an organization and found that the developers were not in sync with the implementation of the network. Although this shouldn't pose too much of an issue theoretically, and many developers argue that this is not the job of the application developer, I am a strong believer of the opposite approach. Collaborative development should always begin with your messaging infrastructure. By possessing insight into the physical ...