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Monday, November 16, 2009 9:05 AM

Where CDO Publishes Free Busy Information

From time to time, I get asked to explain where CDO publishes Free Busy information in the Public Folder store, so I figured I’d put this article together. The basic process CDO uses for updating FB information is outlined in the More Information section
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Friday, August 21, 2009 10:59 AM

Responding to Meetings with CDO

My colleague Edwin, writing for the Exchange Support Team Central Europe blog , posted an article on accepting meeting requests with CDO . The key takeaway from the post is this: This means that when calling the respond method on meeting updates / requests,
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Friday, July 17, 2009 9:16 AM

CDO: Always a Bridesmaid

Suppose you’ve scheduled an meeting and sent out meeting requests to a number of recipients. Some of those recipients don’t like the time you’ve scheduled for the meeting and decide to propose a new time . At this point, you will receive a message with
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Monday, June 08, 2009 3:24 PM

Accepting Appointments With CDO May Break Embedded Message Attachments

This is an issue that has only been reproduced so far with Exchange 2003 , but I wanted to document it here in case anyone else is running in to it. Suppose you have a CDO 1.21 based application which uses GetAssociatedAppointment to accept meeting requests.
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Friday, April 03, 2009 11:27 AM

MAPI and .Net

Working with a customer the other day, I went looking for my blog post discussing the fact that MAPI is not supported with .Net. Turns out, while I’ve mentioned it several times, I’ve never devoted a topic to it. So here goes. Here are the articles which
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009 10:19 AM

CDO and the Euro

We had a customer who used CDO to create appointments and send meeting requests. Since they were operating in Europe, it wasn’t unusual for these items to have the E uro symbol (€) in the body of a meeting. When they would send the appointment, if the
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009 11:20 AM

More Issues With MAPI and IPv6

I had another issue recently where MAPI wasn’t able to connect via NSPI to the Exchange server or DC. The customer had a CDO application, running on an Exchange 2007 server on Windows 2008, using the Exchange MAPI download . In other environments, the
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Friday, October 24, 2008 2:59 PM

Get The OOF Out Of Here

Dan asked if I could post some CDO sample code he was working on. This sample script demonstrates a few interesting things: Dynamic session creation Accessing the associated contents table of a folder using HiddenMessages Looping backwards through a collection
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Thursday, August 28, 2008 5:25 PM

Pre Vista Fix MAPI Download No Longer Available

This is a follow up to Pre Vista Fix MAPI Download Still Available . As promised, we kept the old pre-Vista fix up until August 15th, then we took it down. I didn't note this earlier because: I was at the beach and beach trumps blog. There was an error
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Monday, June 02, 2008 11:02 AM

This Just In: MAPI and Windows Server 2008 Now Get Along

The MAPI/CDO download package now works on Windows Server 2008 and Vista. The main blocker to getting this to work was the fact that in Windows Server 2008 and Vista, mapi32.dll was marked as a system file. Any attempt to replace it would be blocked or
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Thursday, May 22, 2008 11:16 PM

The Future of Exchange's Developer APIs

Jason Henderson , the lead PM for Exchange Web Services, just put up a roadmap for the future of development against Exchange. Key points: WebDav, Store Events, CDOEX and ExOleDB all say hasta la vista in the next version of Exchange. Universal replacement:
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Tuesday, August 07, 2007 12:21 PM

Making The New CDO Work With The Old Exchange

I know a number of you have asked about this - the latest CDO downloads didn't work with older versions of Exchange because they're passing a flag that allows them to work with Exchange 2007. I alluded to this problem (without actually calling it out)
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Monday, January 08, 2007 9:57 AM

New MAPI Goodness

Updates to the downloads of CDO and MAPI/CDO are now available. Here are the links: CDO 1.21 : (download of CDO for use with Outlook 2007) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2714320D-C997-4DE1-986F-24F081725D36&displaylang=en
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Friday, June 09, 2006 2:13 PM

Announcing MAPI/CDO Download

Folks have been asking for some time now for a standalone installation package for MAPI and CDO. Well now we have one available: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e17e7f31-079a-43a9-bff2-0a110307611e&DisplayLang=en Some details
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Monday, April 11, 2005 8:35 AM

Hey! What IS this MAPI thing after all?

Jason Nelson , one of our core Sustained Engineering guys, just posted an excellent article on the nature of MAPI and CDO. This article should be required reading for all who work with MAPI. digg_url = "http://blogs.msdn.com/stephen_griffin/archive/2005/04/11/hey-what-is-this-mapi-thing-after-all.aspx";digg_title
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