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ConfigureMsgService fails with MAPI_E_INVALID_PARAMETER (0x80070057)
10 July 09 09:02 AM
I recently helped a customer with an issue where they were calling ConfigureMsgService and that call was failing, returning an HRESULT of MAPI_E_INVALID_PARAMETER (0x80070057). After debugging it, we established that the reason that ConfigureMsgService Read More...
TNEF (Chapter 2): Old School
27 January 09 06:09 PM
As discussed in Chapter 1 of this captivating series, MAPI contains an interface to allow developers to create and read TNEF data. This interface is the ITnef interface. There are only a few methods in this interface and they are, for the most part, self Read More...
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TNEF (Chapter 1): Basics
16 January 09 11:17 AM
I’ve worked quite a few cases recently regarding problems some folks have had either reading or composing TNEF content. I’ve learned quite a bit myself as a result, and I thought I’d share. I decided I would do a series of blog posts on the topic and Read More...
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New Drop of MAPI/CDO Download Released Today
19 December 08 04:48 PM
After a hiccup earlier this week in getting the new MAPI & CDO downloads published to microsoft.com, they released today. MAPI / CDO http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=E17E7F31-079A-43A9-BFF2-0A110307611E&displaylang=en CDO Read More...
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MAPI Docs Moved
04 December 08 10:34 AM
So, the Exchange team decided they didn't want to maintain the MAPI documentation anymore since they don't ship MAPI anymore. So the Outlook team stepped up and took over the docs. As such, you can now find them under the Outlook branch in the MSDN left-nav. Read More...
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RPC - Really Problematic Conundrum
15 July 08 10:49 AM
I’ve had a couple cases recently where customers were having problems getting into deadlock with one of our modules, usually MAPI or Outlook. There’s one common thread that connects these cases: message pumps. Your application has to make a remote call Read More...
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MAPI_E_FAILONEPROVIDER (0x8004011d) after installing Windows Server 2003 SP2
11 January 08 04:56 PM
Sorry for the duplication, I'm just rebranding an earlier post of mine because many people have never heard of SNP and may discount the post due to the title. If you are getting MAPI errors because of RPC connectivity problems, and you have SP2 installed Read More...
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HELP: Outlook 2003 Doesn't Display my HTML Body
10 January 08 10:46 AM
If you've developed a custom message store and you can't get Outlook to display RTF or HTML content, check the length of your EntryIDs. If your RTF content is really just wrapped HTML content or you are providing PR_HTML, and for some reason Outlook 2003 Read More...
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Folder Homepage no longer works in Outlook 2007 from MAPI store providers
19 December 07 11:02 AM
If you are developing or have developed a MAPI store provider for use in Outlook and are trying to support folder homepages in your store, you are probably familiar with the PR_FOLDER_WEBVIEWINFO property. This property is undocumented and not supported, Read More...
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Free/Busy Appointments Missing After Using CDO 1.21 to Access Calendar
14 December 07 12:05 PM
If you have written or use an application that uses CDO 1.21 (cdo.dll) that accesses your Calendar and you have users who complain that some recurring appointments are not appearing in Free/Busy in Outlook, this may be for you. When a recurring appointment Read More...
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Ooh, SNP
16 October 07 04:46 PM
We've recently been seeing an elevated number of cases where networking issues are adversely affecting performance and causing other problems with messaging technologies. The common thread in many of them is that the problem only started to occur after Read More...
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New Blogger on the Team: DVESPA
22 March 07 03:11 PM
So my boy, Dave Vespa , has just posted his first real blog post: a good one, regarding using 32-bit MAPI on Exchange 2007 (64-bit). http://blogs.msdn.com/dvespa/archive/2007/03/22/accessing-exchange-s-extended-mapi-from-a-64-bit-process.aspx Dave is Read More...
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S/MIME Magic
27 September 06 09:18 PM
I know it's been a while since I posted (for all my loyal fans!) but my wife and I had a baby last month, so we've been busy with him. Jacob Matthew is a great kid though, so I'm not apologizing, just giving you an explanation! On to business... So recently Read More...
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