Outlook 2000 in a Nutshell

Chapter 2. Installing Outlook

Outlook’s primary raison d'être is connectivity. Whether we’re talking connectivity between Outlook’s individual components, between its Office cousins, or between your friends and business associates around the world, how you install Outlook will determine the tools and options you have at your disposal, and how they work.

Outlook is not really one program—there are three separate installations to choose from. You can install Outlook as a standalone Personal Information Manager or PIM (No E-mail mode), as a PIM plus an email client for Internet-based messaging (Internet Mail Only or IMO mode), or as a PIM plus an email client for corporate-based messaging ( Corporate or Workgroup or CW mode). This chapter details these three installations: how they differ, how to choose the best one for your needs, and how to configure the installation you’ve chosen.

Installation Overview

Installing Outlook is not necessarily difficult, but it can quickly become confusing due to the array of available options. As you can see from Figure 2-1, the installation process ranges from the simple (Install, Upgrade, Import settings), to the complex (Install, No Outlook upgrade, No other upgrade, Choose a Service Option, and Configure that option). This section provides you with a “big picture” of the various junctures you will encounter while installing Outlook, and where each of these roads leads.

Figure 2-1. Flowchart of Outlook’s installation process

The choices you make throughout ...