Because I couldn’t find a better guide out there on the Internets already, some time ago I had created this visual walk through for collecting Exchange ActiveSync logs through OWA. Since it is pretty helpful and I reference it a lot – here it is. If I...

The basic principle of using subscriptions and notifications with Exchange Web Services (EWS) is that the Subscribe requests create subscriptions and GetEvents or GetStreamingEvents requests must find their way back to the same Exchange server where the...

Download it now! Thank you for using and providing feedback on EWSEditor since the December 2011 release and update. Hopefully you've been watching the check-ins in response to that feedback. While you can download the source at any time and build the...

EWS Managed API 2.0 Technical Preview http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30391 What's new in the EWS Managed API? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj220500(EXCHG.80).aspx 101 EWS Managed API 2.0 Code Samples ...

The Lync product group also has Lync 2013 training posted to MSDN. Including a discussion of the new UC Web API. Check it out.. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/lync/jj543530

There are a number of good, short webcasts posted on the Office Developer Center of MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/office/apps/fp123626 Also, code.msdn.Microsoft.com has an "office" section with tons of sample apps and projects to look at...

News Center Story: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/Press/2012/Jul12/07-16OfficePR.aspx Office Next Blog: https://twitter.com/Office/status/223835852218970112 Office Preview: https://twitter.com/Office/status/224942083742507008 Exchange...

In a post to the Exchange Dev blog , Michael Mainer announced an update to the EWS Managed API today... " The latest release of the EWS Managed API, version 1.2.1, is now available. The EWS Managed API 1.2.1 includes new Exchange Web Services (EWS...

A couple weeks ago I was invited by the Office Interoperability Team to speak at an event they were hosting in Redmond.  I happy accepted the offer and had a great time presenting a few sessions on EWS best practices.  I also got some time to...

The Exchange 2010 SP2 Web Services SDK was released in October but Exchange 2010 SP2 was only recently made available for download earlier this month. With the update to the SDK, there's the common section detailing What's New in the SDK. While this information...

I recently found a bug in the December 2011 Release of EWSEditor and just checked in and released an updated build to EWSEditor to fix it.  Here are my bug notes from the check in: “…Bug in ValidationCallbackHelper.CertificateValidationCallBack caused...

Download the December 2011 Update of EWSEditor HERE . Over a year has gone by since a public update to EWSEditor on the MSDN Code Gallery but it’s not been forgotten!  The availability and popularity of Office 365 and Exchange Online make Exchange...

While the Exchange ActiveSync protocol documentation (MS-AS* documents under the links below) has long been published on MSDN under the Open Specifications for Exchange Server Protocols , there has never been an accompanying set of “how to”...

I’ve been asked this several times and the question usually goes something like this… Hey Matt, I’m trying to follow the instructions on MSDN for setting up ApplicationImpersonation in Exchange 2010 for my service account in Exchange Online in Office...

There were several different announcements around Office 365 this past week.  Most importantly, the Office 365 public beta is wide open… Office 365 Beta  The Office 365 team announced on their blog last week that Office 365 has moved into a...

This roundup is dominated by the Exchange ActiveSync Logo Program announcement as I still have a very Exchange-centric view of the “world”. Exchange ActiveSync Logo Program   The Exchange team announced on their blog this week what they call the...

The Exchange Developer Roadmap has been discussed by more authoritative sources before leading up to the release of Exchange 2010.  I’d like to revisit this roadmap and take it from where Jason left off, going forward into Exchange Online in Office...

The focus of this week’s roundup in on Microsoft Online Services.  Typically when you hear about “the cloud” in a Microsoft developer discussion someone is getting ready to talk about Azure and its various services.  However, in my world I think...

First of all this is NOT and April fools joke!  This blog actually isn’t dead!  Recently (almost a year ago) I switched out of my role in support to a consulting based role working with ISV partners.  A bulk of my work is still Exchange...

Understanding throttling policies , their default values, and how they are applied is a key in Exchange Online where they are used to protect connectivity to the online mailboxes. These policies can be applied per user – so a service account can be granted...

This is often overlooked but you should definitely use Autodiscover to get the EWS endpoint (Url) for each mailbox you are accessing. Autodiscover is a process which involves sending requests to a few pre-determined URLs and optionally [edited 9/16/2011...

The Outlook team announced the availability of new Outlook Social Connector (OSC) providers for Facebook and Windows Live today.  The list of providers now includes LinkedIn and MySpace, as well as the aforementioned Facebook and Windows Live. ...

UPDATE 4/12/2012: I just noticed the links below are dead. You can still find the webcasts on MSDN though: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/aa731550 . I keep recommending these webcasts to people individually so I figured I should mention them...

This transport agent identifies a message it wants to reject by looking for “[TEST]” in the subject.  If it finds a message to reject, it creates a new message to be sent back to the sender and attaches the original message being rejected to the...

EWSEditor 1.6.1 is now available for download at the EWSEditor Code Gallery project site ! API coverage is a major focus of the 1.6.* releases of EWSEditor. The 1.6.1 release adds an OOF Settings and Availability form to this end. There were several bugs...