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The Microsoft Office Project 2003 Workgroup Message Handler is a collaboration tool used by earlier versions of Project that works with the Workgroup Mail functionality. It provides a project manager the ability to communicate with the resources assigned to tasks by using e-mail. Workgroup Mail functionality has been removed as a collaboration option from Microsoft Office Project Standard 2003 and Microsoft Office Project Professional 2003 and is no longer a supported collaboration method. The recommended method for collaboration is to use Microsoft Office Project Server 2003 and Microsoft Office Project Web Access 2003.

Workgroup Mail is an unsupported feature of Microsoft Office Project 2003 and is not planned for future versions of Project.

If you have used Workgroup Mail in earlier versions of Project and were planning to use it in Project 2003, it can be re-enabled as an interim solution while you plan your move to an alternate method of collaboration for future versions of Project. It is important to note that Microsoft plans to discontinue Workgroup Mail in all future versions of Project, and prior versions of Workgroup Mail will not be supported. In addition, no technical support will be available for Workgroup Mail if any issues are encountered after re-enabling it for use with Project.

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Status: Deleted This download is no longer available on microsoft.com. The downloads below are archives provided by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine from the Microsoft Download Center prior to July 2015.

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• This download works with the following Office applications:
  
  • Microsoft Office Project Standard 2003
  • Microsoft Office Project Professional 2003
  
  
• Workgroup Message Handler is compatible with MAPI-compliant e-mail applications, including:
  
  • Microsoft Exchange Server running on Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows Me, Microsoft Windows NT, Microsoft Windows 2000, or Microsoft Windows XP
  • Microsoft Mail for Windows NT
  • Microsoft Outlook 97 or later
  • Lotus cc:Mail 7.0 or later for Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 2000, or Windows XP
  • Lotus Notes 4.5a or later for Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 2000, or Windows XP

Download the Workgroup Message Handler file by clicking the Download link (above).After downloading the Workgroup Message Handler files, please review Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 818337 How to turn on the Workgroup Mail feature in Project 2003 to complete the installation and configuration of the Workgroup Mail for Project Standard 2003 or Project Professional 2003.

Removal of this download:

1. Disable the Workgroup Mail option in Microsoft Office Project Standard 2003 or Microsoft Office Project Professional 2003 by deleting the Workgroup registry key.
2. Manually remove all files that are installed.