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In a previous post I had explained how to stamp a Retention Policy Tag using EWS Managed API , In this post I will explain the changes you will need to make to stamp an Archive Policy Tag. What’s the difference between these two? Retention Policies consist of delete tags, i.e. retention tags with either...

Download Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Preview http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/evalcenter/hh973395 Developer Resources for Exchange 2013 EWS client design overview for Exchange 2013 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj190904(EXCHG.150).aspx Exchange Web Services Managed API Version 2.0 - Technical...

I have been working with Exchange Web Services(EWS) for a long time and this is the first time I saw that the EWS was lying to me! The code was executing a FindItem call on a list of folders and all of a sudden it threw the following error: “Error occurred: The request failed. The remote server returned...

Here's a scenario we recently had reported: A customer running Outlook 2010 installs KB 2553248 , and now Outlook crashes when they try to open meetings that were created using Exchange Web Services (EWS). In fact there are a few other scenarios where Outlook crashes: 1) Create a Meeting request using...

Yes, this is similar to the script in my previous post but is also different in the following ways: This script searches the entire mailbox and looks for items in folders that contain mail items or in other words where the folders class is IPF.Note This scripts also shows how to use the Not, Exists the...

This post deals with a scenario where we need to stamp Retention Policy on specific items. In this case we wanted to stamp a policy on items with a specific message class. In my previous post I had explained about Messaging records management and how to stamp the policy on a folder. Please do read my...

Here is another example of using EWS Managed API with PowerShell 2.0. In this case the requirement was to be able to find out all contacts that have Hotmail email address in any of the Email Address fields. This provided me to opportunity to demonstrate the use SearchFilterCollection and ContainsSubstring...

Exchange Web Services with PowerShell! In the last few days I have written quite a few scripts that use Exchange Web Services Managed API 1.1 with PowerShell, you will agree that it is not as easy as writing Exchange Web Services Managed API 1.1 with C# and it takes a bit of getting used to it. One of...

A customer of mine wanted to create a folder under Inbox for thousands of mailboxes. He also wanted to use PowerShell to do it. What better way that using Exchange Web Service(Managed API) with Impersonation to do the job. The list of the users are available in a text file. The First row denotes the...

Strange but TRUE! This work in Exchange 2007 but does not in Exchange 2010. Below is the request and response that I get from a Exchange 2010 server for the ExpandGroup Exchange Web Services call: Request: <? xml version ="1.0" encoding ="utf-8" ? > < soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi ="http://www.w3...

The User Configuration operations enable clients to create, delete, retrieve, and update user configuration information. These operations are new in Exchange 2010. Configuration data consists of groups of related application settings. Each group of settings is stored together in separate stream properties...

Exchange 2010: Configuring Exchange Impersonation (Exchange Web Services) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb204095.aspx Using Exchange Impersonation XML Request/Response http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb204088.aspx Using Impersonation in EWS Managed API http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us...

Here is another sample for building a complex search criteria for Finding items. We use the SearchFilter and SearchFilterCollection to build the “Restriction”. In short we are finding items which have a User Property called X-State AND the value of X-State is not (3 OR 4 OR 5) AND the ItemClass is IPM...

Now that developers have started using Exchange Web Services Managed API, I thought it would be nice for me to post some samples to do simple things using the API. This sample shows: 1)How to list the Top Level folders in a mailbox. 2)Using Paging with the FolderView class. 3)Enabling logging of the...

Requirement: Setting the OOF setting for a user using PowerShell Script. The best and the easiest option I could think of was to use the Exchange Web Services Managed API 1.0 from with PowerShell 2.0. I finally got it to work! # The script requires the EWS managed API, which can be downloaded here: #...