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THIS IS A DRAFT DOCUMENT AND MAY CHANGE WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE. PURPOSE: Collect ETL trace from Exchange Server 2007 & 2010 to troubleshoot Exchange Web Services related issues. Applies to: Microsoft® Exchange Server© 2007 & 2010 Steps 1) Go to CAS Server and fire up Extra.exe (%PROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft...

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...

First thing first, this is just for demonstration purpose and might *not* be a supported solution by Microsoft. The setting we are reading from are hidden messages and not documented anywhere. I had to reverse engineer it for demonstration purpose. Objective : To get OOF State of any user in your organization...

I have been working on different SearchFolders cases lately where customers were trying to create SearchFolder using EWS. Working on those issues has uncovered a limitation of Outlook (I tested it on 2007, but may exist with earlier versions as well) I created the search folder using the following XML...

Here is a quick sample if you are looking at creating a search folder using EWS which will look for Custom Property. Here we are looking for a custom property named “EmployeeID” and make sure that the property exist and does not have a blank value. public static BaseFolderType CreateCustomPropSearchFolder...

What are we doing here? What is Search Folder? Why do I care? Search folders are a quick way to bookmark your frequently searched items. It allows you to save a search query with predefined parameters for quick access. For instance I am always looking for emails with attachments and from a particular...

My fellow colleague had this customer who was using Exchange Web Services to update body of an appointment item. He created a new appointment from Outlook with some body text, attachments in the body to the position where he wanted, subject & location. Appointment was saved as it should and life...

I thought it was just the last month full of bugs and fixes. This month also started with a Exchange Web Services bug.. or better Exchange Bug as Exchange Web Service is just a victim :( If you add an attachment to a single occurrence of a recurring CalendarItem, and then call GetItem with AllProperties...

Another fine day and some great timings. I was discussing this bug with product group hoping that it is not faced by anyone outside Microsoft and then the phone rings.... I am getting the following error while trying to do a FindFolder call on to Public Folders Exception Type - System.InvalidOperationException...

First thing first, you cannot use Exchange Web Services (as of now) to update the IsRead flag for items other than MessageType. MessageType has IsRead property in place to update the MAPI property PR_MESSAGE_FLAGS. Product group is aware of this limitation and very soon we should see an fix for this...

Yes you can consume Exchange Web Service using VBScript or any language / platform which support HTML. In this sample, I have used XMLHTTP to send/receive soap request/response. Then I have used MSXML Document to parse the XML returned by the server to get the response code. I have converted my...

WebDav is definitely de-emphasized and not recommended to develop applications for Exchange 2007. But WebDav was still the easiest method to disable OOF message. I was not surprised to see it NOT working against Exchange 2007 to disable the OOF message. I have a better solution for you… use my favorite...

Looks cool isn’t it? I have created this folder tree for my mailbox using Exchange Web Services. You can do the very same. Here is the code which I am using to get all the folders inside a folder and recursively go deep-n-deep until your reach the core. Here is the sample code… ///...

Forgot to add that attachment? Using exchange web service you can add it back to the item on the server. The code is simple and very easy to understand. It takes two parameters itemID – where attachment will be added, & strFileName – complete path to the local file. private bool AddAttachment...

So wondering where is LastModifiedTime? Exchange Web Services does not seem to give you the hint when the item was last modified. This property is not available in ItemType and expected to be available only after Exchange 2007 SP1. You can get the LastModifiedTime with the help of ExtendedProperty...

I have fallen for exchange web services. There are endless possibilities with exchange web services, and product group is still working to make it even better. Today I have created a neat sample to download attachments off Exchange Server Sample: DownloadAttachments Input Params: itemID , folder...

This is an attempt to extend my previous code sample Getting into a folder by path using EWS With this code sample I have demonstrated HOWTO find items under a folder. I have used Restriction to list down all the "IPM.Note" items falling under a specified date/time span. class EWS_SAMPLE ...