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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...

Have you ever tried migrating Exchange PowerShell script to be used from C# code?  I needed to convert the following script to C# Get-Mailbox - filter {ResourceType -ne "Room" }| Select-object Alias,DistinguishedName,Identity | foreach -object {Get-MailboxFolderStatistics $_.Alias} ...

Problem: SetColumns is failing on non-english versions of windows with the error message below. In fact it was even failing on a English version of windows with English Office 2010 installed. Why would this be happening? When I looked at the system where this code was failing, it looked as if the entire...

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...

As promised below is the code to call a .PS1 script and pass parameters to it. Most of the code is very similar to my previous post that showed how to call Exchange & PowerShell cmdlet. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using System.Management.Automation; using System...

Will my Exchange 2007 PowerShell Managed code work with Exchange 2010 as is? Unfortunately the answer is NO, fortunately there are not many changes that you will have to make. The management experience given by Exchange 2010 through PowerShell has been moved all the way from Local to Remote. Dave Vespa...

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...

I recently ran in an issue where one of my customer was developing a context sensitive email analysis software for MS Exchange 2007. The results of the analysis was used to decide how that email would be dealt with. Due to the complexity of the analysis, the estimated processing time per email was about...

Do you want to make “ReplyAll” the last button in the Ribbon while reading mail(Inspector) in Outlook 2007? Yes, it can be done. All you have to do is make a simple COM Add-in that implements IRibbonExtensibility or a VSTO Add-in and provide it with the appropriate Ribbon XML. You cannot hide/remove...

The easiest solution is to create a COM component and register that component with component services (COM+) running the component under a specific user identity. Why do I say this? Read on... In my case the Web site/Application was configured to run under the DefaultAppPool (Identity = Network Service...

I recently came across an issue where I needed to get the details about Exchange User from within an Outlook Add-in. Below is a screen shot of the details I am referring to.   In Outlook 2007 its very simple, just use the ExchangeUser Object and you will get the details. More details can be found...

Are you someone who maintains Exchange 2003 servers? Did you ever have a requirement to set the Mailbox quotas for a lot of users at one go?  Here is your solution. The sample code below uses ADSI and Cdoexm to set mailbox quotas for multiple user. The following sample is a simple VBScript code...

The following sample is a simple VBScript code sample that that uses CDOEX and ADO to iterate through multiple mailboxes and dumps out the contact data to a text file. This code must be run on the Exchange server. To use this sample, paste the following code in a new text file, and then name the file...

This is not something everyone would want to do, but just in case below is the sample code that uses ACL.dll (found in the Platform SDK) to set "Reviewer" permissions on all the folders for a specific user. The following sample is a simple VBScript code sample that iterates through all folders...

I have seen many developers wanting to loop through multiple mailboxes either to get the mailbox size or get the number of emails in different folders. Here is a sample that loops through multiple mailboxes recursively. The following sample is a simple VBScript code sample that iterates through all folders...

Why do we need to alter the "SetSecurity" and the "Setup" project? I sincerely suggest you read the following Blog posts and article first, otherwise you will not be able to make sense out of this post. Deploying your VSTO Add-In to All Users (Part I) Deploying your VSTO Add-In to All Users (Part...

Its better late than never, I have been wanting to write this post for a long time now and looks like the time has finally come! This is about adapting the "SetSecurity" project to grant Full Trust to the add-in installation folder instead of just the add-in assembly. What is "SetSecurity"...

I was just trying my hands on PowerShell and wanted to try using WebDAV from it. I wrote a small sample that searches the inbox of a user for unread mails and lists out the Href and the Subject of the email. Create a .PS1 file as below: #Change the Server name and Credentials [System.String]$serverName...

The key here is that you will first have to read all the proxy addresses using the Get-Mailbox Cmdlet and then call the Set-mailbox Cmdlet to update the ProxyAddresses. If this is not done you end up replacing all the existing addresses with the one you just added. To get the sample to work you will...

When we send a mail out using System.Net.mail, It sends out a EHLO command, It then parses out the response to create a list of the Authentication mechanism that are supported by the SMTP Server. It then loops through the internal Authentication mechanisms which are listed below: -SmtpNegotiateAuthenticationModule...