Voting Outlook messages can contain voting buttons that are used to request and tally responses to a multiple-choice question. When used with Microsoft Exchange Server, voting notifications are consolidated in the original message. Delegate access and folder permissions Users can give another user permission to work in their locally stored Outlook folders and to send messages on their behalf. Similarly, Outlook users can give permission to read, modify, or create items in public and private folders on Exchange Server. Public folders Users can collect, organize, and share files and Microsoft Outlook items with others on their team or across their organization.
Users can participate in online discussions, or they can share a contact or task list with a group.
Organize Web pages in a public folder Outlook users can collect Web pages for a group to share, and they can keep track of how often pages are used, when pages are updated, who owns them, and more. Out of Office Assistant Outlook users can manage e-mail messages while they are out of the office, and they can set up an automatic response to incoming messages to let others know that they are away. These features let you choose the protocols you need to support message delivery across a variety of e-mail clients. Support for NNTP in the Exchange News Service allows you to publish and replicate Exchange public folders as newsgroups by using Exchange or Outlook management tools. Similarly, users can use Outlook or any Web browser or newsreader to post and read messages in public folders that are published as newsgroups.