Over the years, as Microsoft's Exchange Server has matured, the number of access methods that users have to the information stored on the server has increased. The last five years in particular have seen great improvements in the ability to connect to your mailbox using nothing more than a web browser or a mobile phone.

Because the nature of SharePoint is to allow easy access to information and to improve team collaboration, it is only right that SharePoint should increase our options when it comes to being able to access Exchange information.

In this chapter, we will take a look at the Web Parts that are available to us and learn how to add them to our SharePoint site. The Web Parts that we are going to use can be integrated into any ASP.NET application (irrespective of whether it is running on a SharePoint server or not) and make use of Outlook Web Access (OWA), which exposes the Exchange data. You will hear the Web Parts referred to as either...