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FYI: Supportability of Exchange API's in Managed Code
As more and more developers move to managed code (.NET), especially with the release of Visual Studio 2005, it is important to be reminded of what current API's are supported for use in managed code...
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FYI: Exchange's CDO 1.21 NOT Supported with Kerberos
It's late so I'm going to keep this brief but since we don't have any public content I wanted to get the word out. Exchange's CDO 1.21 was never tested and will not work with Kerberos authentication....
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FYI: How Daylight Savings Time Date Changes affect Scheduling in Outlook Client
The Exchange Team's Blog has a great post on how certain time zones with variable daylight time shifting affect Outlook......Time zones are an important thing to keep in mind when working with...
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OT: Proper Pronunciation of CDONTS...
FYI IMO there a lot of TLA's out there these days. Some acronyms get pronounced phonetically like ISAPI ("eye-sap-ee") and MAPI ("map-ee") while others are enunciated simply by reading the letters...
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FYI: CDO 1.21 Anonymous logon changes in Exchange 2000/2003
...Don't know if many people try to use this anymore but it is worth noting... SYMPTOMReceive MAPI_E_FAILONEPROVIDER when attempting to log on anonymously to Exchange 200x using CDO 1.21. ...OR......
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HOWTO: Bind to items from CDO/MAPI using WebDAV
Summary Using PR_URL_COMPNAME to bind to an item in WebDAV from CDO/MAPI involves understanding the encoding rules for the Exchange version where the item is homed. These rules are different and...
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FYI: MAPI Subsystem and CDO 1.21 download now available
You can now download the MAPI subsystem and CDO 1.21 from Microsoft and install them separate from Exchange or Outlook. This is a totally standalone download that is comprised from the Exchange 2003...
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MYTH: CDO 1.21's Session.Logon parameter "profilePassword" actually...
...I'm back from a happy holiday vacation; I hope yours was happy too. Below is one of my favorite questions about CDO 1.21 because it gets asked a fair amount and the answer is simple, frustrating,...
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OUTBOX: How to tell if the DST Rebasing Tool has been run on a mailbox?
The rebasing tool adds time zone information to appointments that it touches. This time zone information is the same that Outlook 2007 (and patched versions of CDO 1.21) puts on appointments when it...
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FYI: DST 2007 exposes those who misuse CDO 1.21
A couple notes from the field as we enter the window of time that is DST 2007...Due to the security dialogs added to CDO 1.21 in the Outlook 2000 timeframe many people started to copy CDO 1.21 from an...
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HOWTO: Delete Search Folders and Interop with CDO 1.21 from Managed (.NET) Code
The Outlook 2003 Object Model does not have anyway to delete Search Folders, although you can create them. The only way to delete them is to use CDO 1.21 code. However, it is not supported to run CDO...
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KB: Respond to Meeting Requests via the MeetingItem Interface in CDO 1.21
...We'll be publishing a KB article to establish this support policy update on CDO 1.21. I'll update this post with KB number, in the meantime, here is the content of the article...Calling the Respond...
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FYI: Why are MAPI and CDO 1.21 not supported in managed (.NET) code?
The issue of using MAPI or (most commonly) CDO 1.21 in managed (.NET) code is one that comes back to us a lot on the Messaging Developer Support team. Both the messaging technologies in question and...
View ArticleCheck out webcasts and samples for Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013 App...
There are a number of good, short webcasts posted on the Office Developer Center of MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/office/apps/fp123626 Also, code.msdn.Microsoft.com has an “office” section with...
View ArticleCheck Lync 2013 developer training on MSDN…
The Lync product group also has Lync 2013 training posted to MSDN. Including a discussion of the new UC Web API. Check it out.. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/lync/jj543530
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EWS Managed API 2.0 Technical Preview http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30391 What’s new in the EWS Managed API? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj220500(EXCHG.80).aspx...
View ArticleEWSEditor August 2012 Release
Download it now! Thank you for using and providing feedback on EWSEditor since the December 2011 release and update. Hopefully you’ve been watching the check-ins in response to that feedback. While...
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Changes in Managing Affinity for EWS Subscriptions…
The basic principle of using subscriptions and notifications with Exchange Web Services (EWS) is that the Subscribe requests create subscriptions and GetEvents or GetStreamingEvents requests must find...
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HOWTO: Visual guide to turn on Exchange ActiveSync mailbox logging through OWA
Because I couldn’t find a better guide out there on the Internets already, some time ago I had created this visual walk through for collecting Exchange ActiveSync logs through OWA. Since it is pretty...
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Managing Affinity for EWS Impersonation in Exchange 2013 and Exchange Online W15
Updated 7/25/2013: This post has been re-written. The guidance is the same but I felt I needed to clarify the problem scenario and solution as well as add some code. The guidance in this post relates...
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