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Purpose

You can integrate the scheduling capabilities of Microsoft Exchange server with the SAP Enterprise Portal using the Microsoft Exchange server transport.

The portal provides the following transports for accessing data from-and-to the exchange server.

  • Microsoft Exchange Transport based on Collaborative Data Objects (CDO), henceforth called as Exchange Transport.
  • Microsoft Exchange Transport based on WebDAV protocol, henceforth called as WebDAV Transport.

The following versions of Microsoft Exchange server are supported:

  • Exchange Server 2000
  • Exchange Server 2003

In addition to this the Exchange Transport also supports Exchange server 5.5 SP4.

Features

Microsoft Exchange connectivity provides the following scheduling features:

  • Creating non-recurring appointments
  • Creating daily/weekly recurring appointments
  • Sending non-recurring meeting requests
  • Sending daily/weekly meeting requests
  • Reading, modifying, deleting appointments
  • Modifying and deleting entire series of recurring appointments
  • Modifying and deleting current instances of recurring appointments
  • Sending meeting requests with attachments
  • Scheduling online meetings
  • Checking Availability Information
Constraints
  • The Microsoft exchange connectivity currently only supports items with the type appointment, and meeting request. Other types, such as discussion, are not currently supported.
  • Calendar items in personal folders are not supported. Users can only view and modify items located on the Exchange server from the iViews.
  • Public folders on the Exchange server are not supported.
  • Calendar items are delivered as such if sent to recipients within the intranet. If the recipient is in a different domain than the sender, the format in which the items are delivered depends on the server responsible for sending the items in question.
  • Users cannot access calendar information from multiple logins of the same user in the portal.
  • In Exchange Transport the attachments are stored temporarily in the folder in which the MSX-A component is installed. Attachments are deleted as soon as the read, save, or send action is performed.