Brijs Blogging... Looking Beyond the Obvious

Blog related to Exchange and Outlook Development technologies... So if you are looking for Exchange Web Serivces, Outlook Object Model, VSTO Addin development, CDO 1.21, WebDAV ..... then you are at right place.

Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 Launched

Microsoft has launched Visual Studio 2012 and .Net 4.5, a new solution for developers that will...

Author: Brijs Date: 09/12/2012

Developing Apps for Office 2013

Hope you all are also super excited, as I am with Microsoft’s recent announcements for Windows 8 and...

Author: Brijs Date: 08/22/2012

FYI : Supportability of Microsoft EWS Java API 1.1 for Exchange Server 2007/2010

If you are using EWS Java API 1.1 provided by Microsoft @...

Author: Brijs Date: 04/24/2012

Microsoft Script Explorer for Windows PowerShell (pre-release) Beta Available to download

I would like to share that Microsoft® Script Explorer for Windows PowerShell® (pre-release) is...

Author: Brijs Date: 04/13/2012

Resources for Exchange and Office Development

I have stumbled upon couple of good resources for Exchange and Office Development last week while...

Author: Brijs Date: 04/11/2012

How to set Outlook Folder Description and Folder Homepage URL properties using EWS Managed API?

One of our customer is trying to update the Folder Description and Folder Homepage URL properties...

Author: Brijs Date: 03/30/2012

Download for Office 2010 Service Pack 1(SP1) is available now

The Microsoft Office Sustained Engineering Team announced availability of  Service Pack 1 (SP1)...

Author: Brijs Date: 06/29/2011

Microsoft Launches Office 365 Globally

I am exited to share that today Microsoft announced the availability of Microsoft Office 365, the...

Author: Brijs Date: 06/28/2011

How to check current installed version of PowerShell?

To determine the current installed version of PowerShell; in PowerShell type the following built in...

Author: Brijs Date: 03/11/2011

Download Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3

Microsoft has released Update Rollup 3 for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3 (SP3). We...

Author: Brijs Date: 03/11/2011

Download Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 is released

Microsoft has released Update Rollup 3 for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1). We...

Author: Brijs Date: 03/11/2011

Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack(SP) 1 is released and available for download

Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack(SP) 1.This service pack release addresses...

Author: Brijs Date: 03/11/2011

Download Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1

Microsoft has released Update Rollup 2 for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1). We...

Author: Brijs Date: 12/17/2010

Download Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3

Microsoft has released Update Rollup 2 for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3 (SP3). We...

Author: Brijs Date: 12/17/2010

How to send email and create appointment item using EWS Managed API in VB.net?

It does seem to be a bit of a dearth of VB.net samples for Exchange Web Service Managed API. So here...

Author: Brijs Date: 11/25/2010

Download All New Exchange 2010 SP1 Software Development Kits

If you are developing the applications for Exchange Server, then you can download all new Exchange...

Author: Brijs Date: 11/03/2010

How to convert Exchange Item’s EntryID to EWS unique ItemId via EWS Managed API ConvertId call?

One of my customer requested for some guidance for How to convert Exchange Item’s EntryID to EWS...

Author: Brijs Date: 09/09/2010

Issue: Getting 'This implementation is not part of the Windows Platform FIPS validated cryptographic algorithms.' exception while building Outlook VSTO add-in in VS 2010

In case you have FIPS compliance enabled and you are building VSTO/Windows applications using Visual...

Author: Brijs Date: 08/10/2010

How to enable EWS Tracing using Exchange Web Services (EWS) Managed API in VB.net?

Debugging a Web service–based application can be difficult because part of the processing is...

Author: Brijs Date: 08/04/2010

How to get reference to Public Folder Store using Outlook Object Model for Outlook 2010?

On Outlook 2007 or previous version for the Outlook we can refer to the public folder as below: Set...

Author: Brijs Date: 07/30/2010

Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 is released

Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 RTM (KB 982639) is now available to download and install....

Author: Brijs Date: 06/22/2010

Service Pack 3 for Exchange Server 2007 is now available to download

Service Pack 3 is now available to download for the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. With this...

Author: Brijs Date: 06/22/2010

Download Tools for managing Outlook PST

If you need to manage .pst files in users’ Outlook profiles. to help automate these activities...

Author: Brijs Date: 06/09/2010

Where is PFDAVAdmin for the Exchange Server 2010? ExFolders is here now!!!

Users of PFDAVAdmin on Exchange Server 2003/2007 must be wondering that with the recent release of...

Author: Brijs Date: 05/12/2010

Getting “Derived types must either match the security accessibility of the base type or be less accessible” exception after migrating VSTO add-in project to Visual Studio 2010 and targeting it to .Net 4.0 Framework.

We are getting following exception after migrating Outlook 2007 VSTO add-in project to Visual Studio...

Author: Brijs Date: 05/03/2010

Microsoft Office 2010 RTM is now available for download!!!

Microsoft Office 2010 RTM is announced @ Office 2010 Reaches RTM! and now available for download by...

Author: Brijs Date: 04/23/2010

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 is available for you!

As we all are excited with availability of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 with .Net Framework 4.0 and...

Author: Brijs Date: 04/15/2010

Update Center for Microsoft Office, Office Servers, and Related Products is a place where you can...

Author: Brijs Date: 03/24/2010

Exchange Server 2007 SP2 Update Rollup3 is available to download

Exchange Server 2007 SP2 Update Rollup 3 is available to download @ Update Rollup 3 for Exchange...

Author: Brijs Date: 03/19/2010

How to configure and use EWS Impersonation on Exchange 2010/2007?

We can refer to the below mentioned articles for configuring and using EWS impersonation for the...

Author: Brijs Date: 03/09/2010

How to retrieve email address from the “From” and “To” field of mail item using EWS Managed API?

In case we are calling FindItem for EWS Managed API then, it will provide much of the information...

Author: Brijs Date: 02/12/2010

How to access an appointment item linked to BCM Contact's communication history using Outlook Object Model programmatically?

One of my customer is developing application based on Business Contact Manager(BCM) and would like...

Author: Brijs Date: 01/26/2010

How to simplify the process to open Custom Forms in Outlook?

One of most common question asked by the users of  the Outlook Custom form is How to simplify...

Author: Brijs Date: 01/07/2010

Issue: Getting HTTP 404 error on every request made via Exchange Web Services using EWS HTTP endpoint for Exchange Server 2010

Few of our customer reported that they are getting HTTP 404 Error reported; when they tries to use...

Author: Brijs Date: 12/29/2009

How to delete old items from .pst attached to Outlook using CDO1.21 programmatically?

If you would like to clear up some old items from the growing PST attached to you Outlook profile;...

Author: Brijs Date: 12/29/2009

Microsoft Office 2010 beta is available to download

I am very excited to share that Microsoft announced the public beta release of Office 2010,...

Author: Brijs Date: 11/19/2009

Exchange Server 2007 SP2 Update Rollup1 is available to download

Exchange Server 2007 SP2 Update Rollup 1 is available to download @ Download the...

Author: Brijs Date: 11/19/2009

Exchange Web Services Managed API and EWS Editor is available!

If you are developing using Exchange Web Services Managed API then now you can download @ Microsoft...

Author: Brijs Date: 11/13/2009

Issue accessing Public Folder Store using CDO 1.2.1 for Outlook 2007

If you are using InfoStores collection of CDO 1.2.1 for Outlook 2007 to access Public Folder store...

Author: Brijs Date: 11/13/2009

How to do FindItem using Extended MAPI Properties in a Exchange Web Service call?

We can perform GetItem Exchange Web Service call to get Extended MAPI Properties refer my previous...

Author: Brijs Date: 11/12/2009

How to get Extended MAPI Properties in the GetItem Exchange Web Service call?

We can get/set Extended MAPI Properties using Exchange Web Services for Exchange Server 2007/2010....

Author: Brijs Date: 11/06/2009

How to deploy VSTO add-ins for Outlook?

“What is the best way to deploy VSTO add-ins for Outlook?” This is one of the most common question...

Author: Brijs Date: 10/23/2009

Exchange Web Services and Exchange 2010 - What’s new Webcasts

Exchange 2010 is on it way and along with it Exchange Web Services Managed API would be one-in-all...

Author: Brijs Date: 10/08/2009

How to create a Service Account with full access to all mailboxes on Exchange Server 2007 mailboxstore?

We can use following Exchange PowerShell cmdlet to grant a Service Account full access to all the...

Author: Brijs Date: 09/01/2009

Exchange 2007 Webcasts for Client Access and Web Services

Want to learn more about Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 then Support WebCasts  are way to go....

Author: Brijs Date: 08/31/2009

How to search for SMTP Servers in a domain programmatically using ADSI?

Here is a sample vbscript using which we can get SMTP servers instance names in a particular domain...

Author: Brijs Date: 08/28/2009

Download Available for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2

You can now download Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 from here Exchange Server 2007 SP2 We can...

Author: Brijs Date: 08/28/2009

Unable to open Outlook item attached using Attachments.Add and using the olByReference flag on the Outlook 2007

One of our customer is sending Outlook item attached using Attachments.Add with olByReference Flag...

Author: Brijs Date: 06/30/2009

FYI: Outlook 2003 and Exchange Server 2003 goes into Extended Support

Outlook 2003 and Exchange Server 2003 goes into extended Support from 4/14/2009 Exchange Server 2003...

Author: Brijs Date: 05/13/2009

Remove all PST from the Outlook Mailbox using VBScript

If you would like to remove all of the Personal Folders file .PSTs attached to the Outlook Mailbox...

Author: Brijs Date: 05/06/2009

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