Akash Blogging......

All I know about Outlook 2010/2013 and SharePoint Synchronization

Akashb — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:50:13 GMT

When does Outlook 2010/2013 synchronies SharePoint Lists and Document Libraries? By default, WSS lists can be synchronized once during each Send/Receive interval, and there are four basic ways to initiate this Send/Receive process in Outlook: · Send/Receive...(read more)

Images sent using Snipping Tool(SnippingTool.exe) shows up as RED X in Outlook 2010

Akashb — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 22:09:04 GMT

This was an interesting issue, the customer was using the Snipping Tool to capture images and mail them. He would simply get a capture and then do a File->Send To-> E-mail Recipient in the Snipping Tool, this opened an E-mail in Outlook and everything...(read more)

Stamping Archive Policy Tag using EWS Managed API from PowerShell(Exchange 2010)

Akashb — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 17:16:16 GMT

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...(read more)

Outlook displaying the Red X mark instead of the Image

Akashb — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 18:23:25 GMT

This was a fun issue to troubleshoot! The problem : Compose a new mail in Outlook 2010, Insert a image and send it to yourself. The expected behavior is that when you open the received mail, you see the Image. In this case, instead of the Image we saw...(read more)

Exchange 2013 Preview is now AVAILABLE!

Akashb — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 21:49:11 GMT

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...(read more)

Using–Filter, Select-Object, ForEach-Object in C# – Exchange PowerShell Automation

Akashb — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 20:24:32 GMT

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...(read more)

EWS Managed API is lying to me!

Akashb — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 19:19:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Unable to send Bcc using System.Net.Mail when specifying a Pickup Directory(Exchange 2007/Exchange 2010) in code

Akashb — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 22:49:38 GMT

Not sure developers using System.Net.Mail are not complaining about this issue? The issue is very easy to reproduce, all you need to do is create a new mail with someone on Bcc and drop it to the Pickup folder In Exchange. Most likely not to many people...(read more)

After installing KB 2553248, Outlook 2010 starts to crash when we open Meetings in the Calendar

Akashb — Fri, 11 May 2012 18:17:14 GMT

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...(read more)

Run-time error ‘-2147352567 (80020009) when trying to do SetColumns on a Items collection in Outlook

Akashb — Fri, 11 May 2012 16:46:42 GMT

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...(read more)