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Announcing EWSEditor 1.5!

Over the past year I’ve been working with the new Exchange Web Services Managed API and I have to say, it’s a wonderful thing – especially compared to working with the Visual Studio generated proxy classes for Exchange Web Services.  While working

FYI: New Version of Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer Released (ExRCA) with new Exchange Web Service Tests!

From the Exchange Team blog : “Today we released an updated version of the Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer . For those of you not familiar with this site, it is a Web-based tool that helps you troubleshoot connectivity issues. The tool simulates

EWS: Exchange 2007 RTM vs. SP1 Specifying MeetingTimeZone's TimeZoneName when creating an Appointment

Prior to Exchange 2007 SP1 an article was published with some specific guidance related to handling time zones in calendar item tasks.  Contrary to Best Practices for Using Exchange Web Services for Calendaring Tasks , specifying just a MeetingTimeZone

EWS: UID not always the same for orphaned instances of the same meeting.

Earlier I linked to a post by Henning Krauses which discusses searching for a meeting using the UID and GlobalObjectId properties. The point of UID is to provide a unique identifier for a meeting across the calendars each attendee to the same meeting.

OUTBOX: Setting ‘Don’t Crawl On Me’ via Outlook’s object model

A while ago Steve posted information about how to turn of various types of “crawling” in Outlook via named properties that can be set on a store to tell Outlook whether or not it is okay to “crawl” the store in different scenarios.  There are cases

FYI: DeleteItem behavior, Exchange 2010 SDKs, EWS performance and SyncFolderItems, and Named Property Mapping in Exchnage 2007+

Fellow developer support engineer, Patrick Creehan , has any interesting post about the delta between the documentation of DeleteItem calls and the actual behavior involving including the ChangeKey in the ItemId of the item you want to delete.  In

FYI: Can’t use Exchange Impersonation with GetUserOofSettings, SetUserOofSettings, or GetUserAvailability

I kept forgetting about this so maybe blogging it will help me remember.  As this thread confirms – you can’t call GetUserOofSettings, SetUserOofSettings, or GetUserAvailability when using Exchange Impersonation.  If you try to do this you’ll

Exchange API Team Blog: Exchange Impersonation vs. Delegate Access…

The Exchange API team has a new post to explaining the differences between using Exchange Impersonation vs. Delegate Access to access an Exchange mailbox using Exchange Web Services.  I’ve seen first hand that there is a gap in understanding the

FYI: Issue with Windows 7 RC and VSTO…

The VSTO team has a post which details an issue that you might see when trying to deploy a VSTO solution to Windows 7 RC.  The error message would be… “The required version of the .NET Framework is not installed on this computer” As the blog post
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FYI: Exchange 2007 SP2 Announced…

The Exchange team announced the upcoming service pack for Exchange 2007 recently.  The primary focus of this service pack is preparing Exchange 2007 for interoperability with Exchange 2010 but there are also fixes and changes to existing components
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INFO: EWS Tips and Tricks Links…

MVP Henning Krause has some good posts about various different tips and tricks with EWS that are worth looking at… Searching a meeting with a specific UID using Exchange Web Services 2007 Resolving the primary email address with Exchange WebServices ResolveNames
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FYI: In Outlook 2010 Exchange Client Extensions Are Gone…

On the Outlook team blog it was announced recently that Exchange Client Extensions (ECEs) will not work with Outlook 2010. This shouldn’t come as a big surprise, they haven’t been a primary extensibility model for Outlook since Outlook 97-98 days. However,

FYI: Unlike Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010 will *not* ship a 32-bit version

The Exchange team announced that Exchange 2010 will not have a 32-bit version – not even for evaluations. The post focuses on mainly the non-developer related impact of this change. The key points for developers are: > Applications that automate Exchange

FYI: The Exchange Web Services Managed API is here!

As you might have seen, we announced last week that the Exchange Web Services Managed API is now available as a beta download .  I’ve been working with the API internally for about a year now and I must say, if you are writing .NET code that uses

OOM.NET: Like a good standup comic – use scope and have good timing…

Recently, I was helping someone with a Outlook item leak type issue involving a Task FormRegion.  The symptom was that after opening a task, closing it, and reopening the item they were getting the infamous error message, “COM object that has been
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