Exchange Web Services 101 : Let’s get started!

Want to learn Exchange Web Service but not sure how and from where? Here are the few articles that I share very often with partners and customers who want to learn more about Exchange Web Services.

Undoubtedly there is so much information out there and that’s too in such a short span of time. You better start with Inside Exchange Web Services book from MSPRESS and then the rest of the articles can be utilized.

 

MSPRESS BOOK

• Inside Microsoft Exchange Web Services

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/books/10724.aspx

Note: This book target Exchange 2007 RTM and does not talk about features introduced in Exchange 2007 Sp1 & later

• Common EWS Operations

http://blogs.msdn.com/vikas/archive/2007/07/27/howto-getfolder-finditem-restriction-getitem.aspx

• Working with attachments

http://blogs.msdn.com/vikas/archive/2007/10/16/howto-ews-add-attachments-to-existing-items-on-server.aspx

• Links on Common Exchange Web Services (EWS) Questions

http://blogs.msdn.com/webdav_101/archive/2008/10/02/links-on-common-exchange-web-services-ews-questions.aspx

• Generating list of calendar items using EWS

http://blogs.msdn.com/webdav_101/archive/2009/01/10/sample-howto-display-a-list-of-calendar-items-in-listview-using-ews.aspx

• Understanding and Fixing Slow Exchange Web Services Code

Part 1

http://blogs.msdn.com/mstehle/archive/2008/07/17/outbox-understanding-and-fixing-slow-exchange-web-services-code-part-1.aspx

Part 2

http://blogs.msdn.com/mstehle/archive/2008/08/13/outbox-understanding-and-fixing-slow-exchange-web-services-code-part-2.aspx

Exchange Notifications

• Exchange Web Services – Notification Subsystem

http://blogs.msdn.com/vikas/archive/2007/08/28/ews-exchange-2007-notification-subsystem.aspx

• Transitioning to Exchange Web Services Notifications (from Store Events Sinks)

http://blogs.msdn.com/exchangedev/archive/2008/07/24/transitioning-to-exchange-web-services-notifications.aspx

Note: Notification Watermarks are valid for 30 days after which they expire

Exchange Managed API

Videos –

http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/BB46/

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/03/24/450892.aspx

• Introducing the EWS Managed API 1.0

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd637749.aspx

• EWS Managed API 1.0 Beta SDK April 2009

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd633710.aspx

• Exchange Server Developer Center

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/default.aspx

 

Please do let me know if that information is helpful to you.