Personal archive mailboxes are new in Exchange 2010. They are designed to be a replacement for personal PSTs. They are better for Administrators who need to manage end users' personal repositories for email while at the same time ensure compliance and...

If you have done any remote runspace creation against Exchange 2010 you have undoubtly run into this error message: "Script block literals are not allowed in restricted language mode or a Data section" or "The term 'Where-Object' is not recoginized...

I often ask customers to use ExTra to troubleshoot RPC Client Access issues. Rather then write this over and over again, here are the steps for using ExTra to troubleshoot a RPC Client Access issue. On the CAS Server that the MAPI client is connecting...

Well here is just more of the same, Stephen posted about querying an item to see whether it's "dirty" or not . Here is the .NET equivalent. I didn't actually test these this time so your feedback is welcome. Visual Basic Public Function IsItemDirty...

My colleague Stephen Griffin recently blogged about how to show or hide the Sender Contact Photo feature in Outlook . Since he only supplied the C++ version the product team asked me to supply the .NET version. Visual Basic Public Sub SetSenderContactPhoto...

I got a question today about if one could set the Outlook Security Settings programmatically instead of requiring the user to go through the dialog in the Outlook UI. The answer is Yes, and the article below describes how to do it: How to Assign an...

PSSCOR2 has been released to the public! I have been using this tool for years and I cannot describe what my job would be without it. If you are using Windbg to analyze hang and crashes in managed code, then this tool is for you. Check out Tom's post...

First, let's define what a Local Runspace is and how that differs from the one you would use for Exchange 2010. A Local Runspace is a runspace configured to load the local Exchange Powershell snapin via the RunspaceConfiguration object. This was the standard...

Since posting the Remote Powershell sample I have had many people ask me how to make a connection to a remote endpoint using Windows Authentication instead of suppling a username and password as my sample demonstrates. I have changed the sample so that...

From: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Daylight saving timezone - is there any known issues? Ah yes, Daylight Savings and Timezones. The most straight forward construct known to man. Well the one reader...

In Exchange 2007 if you wanted to enable HTTP for Exchange Web Services all you had to do was go into Internet Information Services (IIS) and uncheck the box 'Require secure channel (SSL)' on the EWS virtual directory. In Exchange 2010 RTM this is no...

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=371add31-d7a0-4c8b-8325-a6fced2d05e6&displaylang=en Along with a new version of the MAPI download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e17e7f31-079a-43a9-bff2-0a110307611e&displaylang...

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This is a continuation of my previous post . I wanted to take a moment and discuss the intent of the sample, how to get it working, and some caveats when you attempt to take the sample and turn it into production ready code. Purpose The purpose...

I have seen this question posed a lot so I decided that I would post a quick code sample here and the complete sample on my samples site. In my sample I created a managed client and a native client which both call into a managed DLL that runs the Get...

Congratulations to the Exchange product team, Exchange 2010 has been released to manufacturing. http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/10/08/452775.aspx

In previous versions of Exchange, the System Attendant (SA) Mailbox was used by the link monitoring service and for publishing Free / Busy information. However, this functionality is no longer needed in Exchange 2010. As such the mailbox has been removed...

I was recently asked the following questions regarding my blog and it's purpose. I decided that it would be good to post them here so my reader can understand the motivation of this blog. 1. Have you defined a purpose or strategy for your blog? If...

** The following article is for only the Exchange MAPI / CDO download. Outlook users will not have to use these steps. Also this configuration may not work on previous versions of Exchange. Open up MFCMAPI, go to Profile > Launch Profile Wizard...

The Exchange 2010 Release Candidate has been released to download. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dd185495.aspx Stay tuned for my post on how to configure your MAPI profile when using the Exchange MAPI/CDO download to connect to Exchange...

The Exchange 2010 Beta SDK just released and I wanted to call out that using the Backup and Restore API (i.e. Streaming Backups) is no longer supported. "Exchange 2010 does not support streaming-style backups. In versions of Exchange earlier than Exchange...

Find more about it here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd877024(EXCHG.140).aspx

ECE's are now officially deprecated in Outlook 2010. Read more about it here

Exchange Server 2010 beta was released to the public this week. The beta for EWS managed client API has also been released. Check it out the related blog posts: Presenting Exchange Server 2010 http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/04/14/451032...

The Microsoft Exchange Team blog has a video about the new EWS managed client API coming in the next version of Exchange. http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/03/24/450892.aspx