very interesting topic. I was just wondering if you guys might know of any examples for doing the reverse - ie: getting exchange server to copy data from itself (e.g. custom outlook form data) to a sql server database?

I would imagine since both exchange server and sql server are both XML friendly, that their might be some way to automate sharing data between the two -- without having to have some large service in the middle such as maybe biztalk or wwf

thanks in advance for any feedback on this!