Microsoft KB Archive/240778

= OL2000: Contents of Team Folders Kit Readme File =

Article ID: 240778

Article Last Modified on 9/29/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Outlook 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q240778



SUMMARY
This article includes the contents of the Team Folders Kit Readme file.



Team Folders Wizard is Designed for use in Corporate/Workstation Mode
Using the Team Folders Wizard in Internet-Only and PIM-Only modes is not supported. Although you can install and run the Team Folders Wizard in Internet-Only and PIM-Only modes, it cannot be used to create a Team Folders application. This also applies if you switch Outlook to Internet-Only mode after installing the Team Folders Wizard.

Team Folders Must Be Created on an Exchange Server Public Folder
In order to share a team folder application it must be created in a Microsoft Exchange Server (version 5.5 or later) public folder. For example, if Outlook is configured to use a Microsoft Mail post office as its primary message store, you cannot create a team folders application in a folder in the post office's Shared Folders. Although you can create a team folder in a personal folders file (.pst) you cannot share it or administer it.

Team Folders Wizard Does Not Run on Microsoft Windows NT Terminal Server
The Team Folders Wizard is not designed to run on a Windows NT Terminal Server client computer. To create a team folder application, you must run the Team Folders Wizard on a computer running Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT version 4.0 (or later), or Windows 2000.

Problems Publishing the Invitation Form to the Organization Forms Library
If you run Vbinvite.exe to publish the invitation form in the Organization Forms Library after installing it in your personal forms library, an error will occur and the form will not be published in the Organization Forms Library. This could happen if you first run Vbinvite.exe while logged on with an account that does not have the rights needed to publish forms in the Organization Forms Library. If this occurs, remove the form from your personal forms library, log on with an account that can publish forms in the Organization Forms Library, and then run Vbinvite.exe again.

To Remove a Form from the Personal Forms Library
 * 1) On the Tools menu, click Options.
 * 2) Click Other, and then click Advanced Options.
 * 3) Click Custom Forms.
 * 4) Click Manage Forms.
 * 5) Click Set.
 * 6) In the Forms Library list, select Personal Forms, and then click OK.
 * 7) In the list below Personal Forms, select the form you want to remove, and then click Delete.

If you installed the beta version of the Team Folders Kit, including the invitation form, you must remove the invitation form from the Organization Forms Library before installing the released version.

Cannot use the Euro Currency Symbol or Double Quotes in Team Folder Name
If you attempt to use the Euro currency symbol in a team folder name when running the Team Folders Wizard on Windows NT 4.x, the Team Folders Wizard will not be able to create the team folder. Also, you cannot use the double quotation mark (") in a team folder name when running the wizard on any operating system.

Existing Web Files are Replaced if Target Folder Already Exists
If a user running the Team Folders Wizard specifies an existing Web folder as the target folder, the existing files will be overwritten without any warning. You should ensure that all Team Folders Wizard users have access to a separate location for publishing their Team Folders Web pages.

Team Folders Wizard or Administration Page Experiences Long Delays With a Large Number of Team Members
If you add a large number of users when running the Team Folders Wizard, it may appear to hang after files are copied to the target public folders and web folders. This happens because it can take several seconds to apply permissions to multiple public folders for each user. If you add 20 or more users when creating your team folder, allow the Team Folders Wizard at least 10 minutes to finish setting the permissions.

This problem can also occur if you add a large number of users through the Administration page of an existing team folder.

If you have a large number of users to add to a Team Folder, we recommend that you use Exchange distribution lists. Adding distribution lists incurs no performance penalty.

Team Folders Wizard Does Not Display Properly on Windows 2000 with Large Fonts in Low Resolution Mode
You cannot run the Team Folders Wizard on a computer running Windows 2000 with the display set for 640x480 resolution and large fonts. You must either change the display to user small fonts or increase the screen resolution.

Restriction Property Filter String Requires Use of Brackets
When you set the Restriction property of the Outlook View Control, you must surround property names with square brackets ([ ]) in the filter string, as shown in the on-line Help for the control. Such brackets are optional when providing filter strings to certain methods of the Outlook Object Model, but they are required for the View Control's Restriction property.

Team Folders Cannot Be Viewed on Locked-Down Windows NT Computers
The team folders applications created by Microsoft Outlook Team Folders Templates require two ActiveX controls to be installed on the computers used to view the folders. In addition, certain applications require custom Outlook forms. Windows NT-based computers that have been "locked down" cannot install these components and therefore cannot be used to view team folders applications created from Team Folders Templates.

Folder Home Pages Do Not Display Properly
When you run the Team Folders Wizard and specify a target location for Web files that results in a duplicate site and folder name, the folder home pages used by the resulting application might not display properly.

For example, if you specify http://Webserver/Public/MyTeamFolder as the target location and the server contains a site named Public, then the team folder Web files will be copied to http://Webserver/Public/Public/MyTeamFolder, but the URL of the folder home page for the public folder will be set to the path you specified (that is, http://Webserver/Public/MyTeamFolder). This will prevent the folder home page from displaying properly.

To correct this, right-click the public folders containing the team folder application, click Properties, click Home Page, then change the URL to match the actual path to the team folder Web pages (such as http://Webserver/Public/Public/MyTeamFolder).

Another reason a folder home page might not display properly is if it was overwritten by the Web files of another team folder. For more information, see "Existing Web Files are Replaced if Target Folder Already Exists."

Getting Help for the Outlook View Control in a Development Environment
If you are using the Outlook View Control in a development environment such as Microsoft Visual Studio or the Microsoft Visual Basic Editor, you can view context-sensitive Help topics for the control's methods and properties in the usual way. To make the Help file (Ovctl.chm) available, you must copy it to the Help folder in your Windows folder (for example, C:\Windows\Help). The Help file is initially installed in the Docs subfolder of the folder in which the Microsoft Outlook Team Folders Kit is installed (by default, C:\Tfkit).

New Team Folder Menu Item Not Removed
The Team Folder item on the File/New menu is not immediately removed from the menu if the Team Folders Wizard is uninstalled while Outlook is running. It will be removed the next time that Outlook is started.

Names Must Contain Only 7-bit ASCII Characters
Project titles can contain DBCS characters. If they do, we will not provide a default folder name for the HTML file publishing. The Web-server path you provide must conform to W3C standards. In particular, you cannot use double-byte character set (DBCS) characters in the Web server path.

Error Occurs if Temporary Personal Folders File is Removed
The Team Folders Wizard creates a temporary personal folders (.pst) file and adds it to the user's profile while it is it is creating the team folder in the public folder; the wizard then removes the folder from the user's profile when the operation is complete. If the user removes the personal folders file before the wizard has finished setting up the team folder, the operation will fail, and a number of error conditions will result. Users should be instructed not to remove any personal folders that appear in their folders list while the Team Folders Wizard is running.

Home Page Messages Must Not Contain HTML Script or Images
The Team Folders Templates home page allows users to read a number of messages that can be posted by the team folder's administrator. Examples of these messages are the Welcome, Top News, and Policies messages.

When the administrator edits these messages, the administrator must not attempt to paste HTML pages containing script or images into the message body. Doing so will result in a script error when users attempt to view the message.

When Recovering Deleted Items, Items May Be in Unexpected Location
In a multifolder application (such as Team Project), if a user deletes an item in a folder and then attempts to recover the deleted item, the Recover Deleted Items dialog will display the list of items deleted from the application root folder (which is usually empty) instead of the folder from which the item was actually deleted. To recover the item, the user must use the Outlook folder list to navigate to the subfolder from which the item was deleted and then attempt to recover the item.

Cannot Use MS-DOS Reserved Device Names in UNC Paths for Target Folders
When running the Team Folders Wizard, you cannot use reserved names in the Web-server path if you specify the path as a Universal Naming Convention (UNC) path. If you do, the wizard will fail without warning. For example, you cannot specify a UNC path like \\Server\Share\Aux. Reserved names include Aux, Com1, Com2, Com3, Com4, Con, Lpt1, Lpt2, Lpt3, Nul, and Prn.

FTP Users Should Contact Their System Administrator
In order to use FTP for posting HTML files you will need to have an HTTP server pointing to your FTP destination and will need to understand the correct URL mapping to this location.

Team Folders May Require Access To Your Office Setup Disk
Some Team Folders features require that certain Office components be installed. Team Folders will attempt to install these features automatically if they are needed, but requires that the user have access to the Office 2000 setup files.

Addition to Microsoft Outlook Permissions Control Programmer's Reference
The following topic should be added to the Permissions Control Programmer's Reference.

Terminate Method (Outlook Permissions Control)

Notifies the control that it is being unloaded.

Syntax

object.Terminate

object Required. An expression that returns an Outlook Permissions Control object.

Remarks
Any page that accesses the permissions control must call this method in the page's unload event. This allows the control to release Outlook resources and allow Outlook to shutdown properly.

Corrections to Team Folders Deployment and Customization Guide
In the topic entitled "Creating a Template Initialization File," under "Publishing Unique Message Classes," the sample entry is incorrect. It should be as shown below.

1=6,IPM.Task.TeamTask,4+5

In the topic entitled, "What Does the Team Folders Wizard Do?" the phrase "creating a contact item for each user" is incorrect and should be ignored.

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