I recently noticed that under the MS Office 2000 versions of Access and Excel there is a Tools/Online Collaboration menu bar with the following options:

Meet Now
Schedule Meeting
Web Discussions

I am interested in learning:

1. How well these options work in the 'real world'<g> Are they tightly integrated with each software package or do they just launch non-modal collaboration applications that could just as easily have been manually launched by a user?

2. How to provide similar functionality in a VFP application (and/or would it make sense to try to tap into these collaboration features via COM?)

3. How complicated is it to configure a workstation to take advantage of these collaboration features? Is there a public 'test site' that one can subscribe to to experiment with these capabilities or must one setup a 'collaboration' type server to take advantage of these features (or are there any 3rd party hosting services that support MS's collaboration features).

4. I'm curious if anyone using Office XP has noticed any enhancements in these features?

Thanks!
Malcolm