Steve asked me to link to a post from Ryan Gregg detailing some changes in Outlook 2007 SP 2 Beta.  Here is what Steve wrote… Ryan posted an article about some changes we're making in Outlook 2007 SP2. The gist is we're changing Outlook's shutdown...

The latest hotfix package for Outlook was released this week which resolves many of the .NET item leak side effects in the calendar by changing the behavior of Outlook to not reuse calendar item references in memory and instead reload them from the store...

I was reviewing a customer's case today and it reminded me of a topic I meant to blog about a while ago... Ever since Exchange 2000/2003 customers have tried to apply the disclaimer SMTP sink sample to internal mail and found that the disclaimer text...

The Exchange API-spotting blog, which is run by the Exchange MSDN content and Exchange API product  folks, as a new post about the transition from store event sinks to Exchange Web Service notifications .  The aim is to provide some more detail...

…Recently, I worked with a customer who was facing the problem described below.  We requested a fix but ended up finding a workaround using a Transport Agent.  At this time there is no plan to fix this issue in Exchange 2007… Problem Description...

…I recently submitted the following KB article for publication but wanted to get the content out.  I will update this post when the KB article is published… SYMPTOMS Scenario 1 When you submit an Exchange Web Services request to Microsoft Exchange...

It took me forever to get around to watching this but this is just a great presentation about Exchange development’s future at PDC. He does a great job of explaining where we’ve been as well… Learn about the Exchange Web Services Managed API and how...

In part 1 of this series I showed how to and the importance of doing the minimal number of requests, emphasizing the use of the IdOnly shape until we really needed more properties. I also illustrated the effect of batching requests and finding a balance...

There is a new strain of the Sober virus roaming inboxes lately. Yahoo has more . The virus arrives in an email with an attachment. Many of the messages will proclaim they are from the CIA or FBI asking you to open the attachment to answer some questions...

FYI IMO there a lot of TLA's out there these days. Some acronyms get pronounced phonetically like ISAPI ("eye-sap-ee") and MAPI ("map-ee") while others are enunciated simply by reading the letters like ESM ("E-S-M") and NTFS ("N-T-F-S"). Usually the presence...

...I added a new category for this post called "KB" which is for noting KB articles that are new or important... The Outlook Object Model does not provide full access to all the features of the application. The following KB article details some of...

The Exchange Team has a great new post on the future of Public Folders in Exchange 12 and understanding how they are implemented.  Be sure to read this post if you are thinking about moving to Exchange 12 and/or Outlook 2007, this article will provide...

Since joining the Messaging Developer Support team last year, my main focus has been on Exchange development, rather than custom forms and Outlook programming. There are many "gotchas" in Outlook development that one must keep track of. Only someone who...

The Office 2007 Product teams have begun posting public information on the new Office suite including the Outlook 2007 team giving an overview of what is new for developers in Outlook 2007… “…Outlook 2007 object model includes more than 85 new objects...

If you have COM AddIns written in Outlook 2003 and earlier that you want to know what we are doing to have them run in Outlook 2007 as well or you are going to write an AddIn for Outlook 2007 then you should read this post by Ryan Gregg who is an Outlook...

Here is some exciting news...The Exchange SDK team is blogging now at http://blogs.msdn.com/exchangedev/ ! This a great opportunity to get some direct access to the members of the product team who are responsible for API development and SDK documentation...

Reading this kind of stuff almost makes we wish I was a consultant again...I say almost because then I think about requirement gathering, deadlines, budgets, debating the merits of agile development, etc... The Exchange SDK team linked to this article...

We are working to get offical public documentation on this subject, I will update this post once we get a KB published... Problem Description When writing .NET code which uses the System.Management.Automation namespace or using Windows Powershell...

This is from an email I send out this morning after a discussion about CDO 1.21 and the Exchange store structure in Exchange 2000/2003...   Understanding the Exchange store and messaging APIs   The following article gives a great overview of...

There are some new posts on Tech Net regarding Microsoft Exchange 2007...   Discontinued Features and De-Emphasized Functionality http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/e2k7help/79df6a3a-29a8-4935-b143-8a66c8d082d4.mspx?mfr=true http...

VSTO 2005 SE is a free download for Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office AND Visual Studio 2005 Professional that will allow you to build VSTO AddIns for Office 2007 applications. Note if you installed the CTP this summer... " VSTO “v3” CTP users...

I saw another case on this issue and remembered that I hadn't put this on my blog yet. If you are getting 403's when trying to create an appointment in another user's calendar using WebDAV or an access denied in CDOEX after installing our Send As hotfix...

...I'm back from a happy holiday vacation; I hope yours was happy too. Below is one of my favorite questions about CDO 1.21 because it gets asked a fair amount and the answer is simple, frustrating, and a little embarrassing for me as an MS employee....

With new versions of the product come new KB articles, make sure to take a look at this as you begin Outlook 2007 development... 929592 Known issues with developing Office Outlook 2007 form regions http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN...

There was a time when you could, in fact, use a script debugger with Exchange Event Service agent scripts.  However, in this age of higher security the need for more scalable solutions, the days of using a script debugger with agent script is long...