Well it's finally released. The long awaited MAPI/CDO download that includes the documentation which outlines how to connect to Exchange 2013. As a supplement to that I have created this blog post to walk you through the steps of creating a profile using MFCMAPI to troubleshoot issues. The intention...

The Exchange Writer for Exchange 2013 will list Recovery Databases (RDB) in it's writer metadata. These should be ignored. This is a known issue in Exchange 2013 RTM. This issue is addressed in the next update to Exchange 2013.

This is already documented in the release notes but I wanted to call out that in Exchange 2013 you must use local powershell to run the cmdlets to install transport agents in Front End Transport (FET). This is because when a remote session is used the cmdlet is executed on the backend server. When you...

In Exchange 2013 you may see the following in the event log if you don't call resume in your asynchronous agent Log Name: Application Source: MSExchange Extensibility Event ID: 1057 Task Category: MExRuntime Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: N/A Description: Agent 'Smith' went async but did not...

If you are on Exchange 2010 you will need SP3 to coexist with Exchange 2013. Exchange 2010 SP3 was released yesterday. http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/02/12/released-exchange-server-2010-sp3.aspx If you are still on Exchange 2007 you can install RU 10 and coexist with 2013....

I have been wanting to post this for awhile but never got around to it. I have only seen two cases of this so I guess my procrastination is justified. If you are using Visual Studio Tools for Office 3.0 you may experience a memory leak when using Custom Task Panes (CTP) within Outlook. There are two...

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 retention polices. The issue happens when an administrator...

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 as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file...

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 to run the following at the command prompt...

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( ByVal itm As Object ) As Boolean Dim typeDispatch...

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( ByVal Inspector As Object , ByVal ShowSenderContactPhoto...

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 S/MIME Certificate to a MAPI Profile for Use with...

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 below: http://blogs.msdn.com/tom/archive/2010/03...

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 type of Runspace created when automating Powershell...

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 it looks for the presence of a username and password...

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 of my blog (thanks Mom) may not get why this is so...

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 longer possible. IIS still gives you this option;...

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=en Once the new MAPI download...

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 of the sample is to demonstrate how to use Remote...

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-ExchangeServer cmdlet using Remote Powershell....

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. One catalyst to this change was the new High...

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 so, what is it? The purpose of my blog is to write...

** 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 > Click OK Then Click Next Add the name...

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 2010!