January 2008 - Posts
What is known as "Named Properties"? MAPI provides a facility for assigning names to properties, for mapping these names to unique identifiers, and for making this mapping persistent. Persistent name to identifier mapping ensures that property names remain
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1) What is an Address Book Provider? An address book provider supplies recipient information to client applications, to message store and transport providers, and to MAPI.
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1) What is the Windows Management Shell? Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) includes an automation and scripting shell called the Exchange Management Shell. 2) What is it used for? The Exchange Management Shell is a command-line management
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1) How MMC is coupled with Exchange Server 2007? Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 integrates with Microsoft Management Console (MMC). 2) What're the programming languages used with MMC? You can program additional MMC snap-ins by using Microsoft Visual
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1) In Exchange environment, what are interfaces available to make use of programmatic access? The Microsoft® Windows server operating systems development platform provides application programming interfaces (APIs) for the many underlying technologies.
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1) How Exchange Server 2007 is supported in clustered environment? If Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 is run in a clustered environment, the clustering services that are included in the Windows Server operating systems are used. 2) By what means can we
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1) What are the protocols are supported by Exchange Server 2007? Exchange Server 2007 includes the following protocols: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3) Internet Message Access Protocol version 4 (IMAP4) Network
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1) Exchange Server 2007 & Internet Information Services (IIS) ? Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 is closely integrated with Internet Information Services (IIS). 2) Can you any example where IIS is used with Exchange Servers? With some exceptions (for
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1) What are the Networking Technologies available for Exchange Server 2007? The Exchange Server 2007 uses the following networking foundations of the underlying Microsoft Windows Server operating systems: Network Device Interface Services (NDIS) The TCP/IP
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1) What is the Unified Messaging Web Service? The Unified Messaging Web service provides an extensibility point that enables clients to read and change information about Unified Messaging properties.
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Click the image to find the Exchange Server 2007 Frequently Asked Questions
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1) What do you meant by "MAPI table"? A MAPI table is a MAPI object that is used to view a collection of properties belonging to other MAPI objects of a particular type. 2) How the values are stored and can be used in MAPI table? MAPI tables are structured
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Transport Architecture - Exchange Server 2007
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1) What is an "Edge Transport Server" or "Gateway Server" ? Earlier Edge Transport Server is also referred as "Gateway Server". In Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Edge Transport server role is deployed in your organization's perimeter network . It handles
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1) What is meant by "Direct Push" ? Direct Push is a technology It is built into Exchange ActiveSync that keeps a mobile device continuously synchronized with an Exchange mailbox
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1) What is known as "Exchange ActiveSync" or "ActiveSync" ? Exchange ActiveSync lets you synchronize data between your mobile device and Exchange 2007. You can synchronize e-mail, contacts, calendar information, and tasks. Devices that run Microsoft Windows
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1) What is meant by "Exchange Management Shell" ? Exchange Management Shell is a command-line management interface that can be used for server administration in an Exchange 2007 organization. The Exchange Management Shell provides interfaces and objects
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1) What is meant by "Transport Agent" ? The new Transport APIs in Exchange 2007 enable software developers to create Transport Agents. Transport Agents can be installed and enabled on computers that are running Exchange 2007 that have the Edge Transport
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1) What is known as "Exchange Web Service" or "EWS" ? Exchange Server 2007 includes a new set of Web services that enable developers to interact with Exchange mailboxes and contents by using standard HTTP. Exchange Web Services provides access to the
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Please find the following Microsoft Clinic for Exchange Server 2007 available for free - limited period, so make use of this!! Course Name : Clinic 5091: Introduction to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging URL : https://www.microsoftelearning.com/eLearning/courseDetail.aspx?courseId=75413
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Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate It's for all Microsoft developers, enthusists!! Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate helps IT professionals to increase the flexibility and reliability of their server infrastructure while offering developers a more
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1) What is known as "EMSMDB" ? EMSMDB refers to the Exchange transport provider, EMSMDB32. One example of a provider is EMSMDB2, the "Electronic Messaging System Microsoft Data Base, 32 bit build" provider. EMSMDB implements both a transport and a message
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1) What is known as "Exchange Server - Active Directory Schema" ? Active Directory provides you with a way of extending the schema. This differs from the Exchange Server 5.5 Schema, which does not allow you to add new classes or attributes. To write applications
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1) What is known as "Web Storage Schema" or "Store Schema"? The Web Storage System defines a schema for the formats. You can define a custom set of properties for your items and control their use. The content class property indicates the intent or purpose
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1) What is known as "Microsoft Web Storage System" or "MS Web Store" ? The Web Storage System is a semi-structured, hierarchical database that stores and manages documents, e-mail messages, Web pages, multimedia streams, data elements, and other items.
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1) What's known as "Extended MAPI" ? Extended MAPI version 1.0 is an industry-wide standard for writing messages, e-mail, and workflow applications. Exchange 2000 and many other common messaging programs use MAPI. MAPI interfaces create and access diverse
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1) What is known as "OLE DB" ? The OLE DB API component provides a scriptable interface. Formerly known as Object Linking and Embedding Data Bases. OLE DB is a Microsoft technology that permits servers to share multimedia data, and allows applications
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1) Can you describe more about CDO? CDO library encapsulates difficult or repetitive operations, such as meeting requests, for manipulating items in Web Storage System. CDO is an API specification that defines objects, interfaces, functions, and properties
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1) What's known as "ADSI" or "Active Directory Service Interface" ? Active Directory Service Interface (ADSI) is used to add new users, modify attributes and browse Active Directory, as well as other activities. You can use ADSI to govern the lifecycle
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What is known as ADO? ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) are used to navigate through Web Storage System. ADO allows the developer to access all Microsoft Database APIs, as well as search for and bind objects. ADO contains built-in objects that the developer
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What is the LDAP? The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) protocol is a distributed, hierarchical directory service protocol that you use to gain access to repositories of users and other network objects. Because LDAP is not typically tightly
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1) What is known as POP3 or Post Office Protocol? Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3) is an Internet protocol that allows a POP3 client to download e-mail from a server. This protocol works well for computers that cannot maintain a continuous connection
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What is the NNTP? Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) is an application protocol that is used over TCP/IP networks. NNTP defines a set of client and server commands used to access newsgroups. Exchange 2000 Server uses NNTP to enable Microsoft Outlook
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What is IMAP4 Internet Message Access Protocol version 4 (IMAP4) is an Internet messaging protocol that enables a client to access e-mail on a server instead of downloading it to the user's computer. IMAP4 is designed for an environment in which a user
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What is a SMTP? Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is the Internet standard for transporting and delivering electronic messages. Based on specifications in RFC 821 and RFC 822, Microsoft SMTP Service is included in Microsoft Windows 2000 and Exchange
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1) What is an HTTP? Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a way of connecting to the Internet. An HTTP client such as Microsoft Internet Explorer is a Web browser that uses HTTP to access information on the IIS server. Microsoft Outlook Web Access enables
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What is known as Common Messaging Calls or CMC? Common Messaging Calls (CMC) is a library of 10 functions for adding simple messaging capabilities to client applications written in C or C++. CMC is built on top of the core MAPI subsystem so it shares
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What is the "Simple MAPI" ? loadTOCNode(3, 'moreinformation'); Simple MAPI is a subset of 12 functions, which enable developers to add basic messaging functionality to their Windows-based applications. It includes functions to support sending and receiving
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1) What is a CDO? loadTOCNode(3, 'moreinformation'); Collaboration Data Objects (CDO) was originally called "OLE Messaging" and later "Active Messaging". CDO is a COM wrapper of the MAPI library and can be called from any development language that supports
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One of my customer asked this question, "what is the Difference between Mailbox store & Public folder store objects in Active Directory & Exchange System Manager ?". Yep, not only him, many of us want to know the same? @ Active Directory Sites
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Here are some questions that are frequently asked by my customers whenever they try to access/enumerate Exchange Store using SQL: 1 ) In Exchange Store, how to get all properties for a particular item? To get all the properties for a particular item,
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Exchange Store - FAQs Here are some questions that are frequently asked by my customers whenever they try to access/enumerate Exchange Store: 1) What is the MS Exchange Store? MS Exchange store is a storage platform. The Exchange store is also known as
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MAPI FAQs 1) What is MAPI? MAPI will generally mean MAPI32.dll, or the APIs contained. It's an API, implemented largely in MAPI32.dll (Messaging Application Programming Interface, 32 bit build). By using this, developers implement a series of Providers.
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