Office and SharePoint 2007 User's Guide: Integrating SharePoint with Excel, Outlook, Access, and Word

Chapter 5. Using Outlook

This chapter focuses on using Outlook 2007. Outlook 2003 has limited integration with SharePoint. In fact, it only allows you to view copies of SharePoint lists such as the tasks list, the contacts list, and calendar list. You cannot edit the data in these copied lists and send the changes back to SharePoint. Outlook 2003 can receive alerts generated by SharePoint when someone makes changes to these lists, but it cannot use RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds.

Outlook 2007 expands on all these limitations, turning Outlook 2007 into a virtual front-end client for SharePoint. Not only can you copy these lists to Outlook 2007, but changes you make in Outlook are shared with SharePoint. In addition, Outlook 2007 supports ...