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Outlook 2010 and Shutting Down Add-Ins

Ryan has a new post up about changes we’re making to Outlook 2010 to make shutdown faster . These changes are building on the previous changes we made introducing Fast Shutdown. Two key takeaways: MAPI Providers now get Fast Shutdown by default. They

Outlook 2010 MAPI Samples

I’ve updated the Outlook MAPI Samples and posted a new project up on Codeplex: Outlook 2010 MAPI Samples . We’ll get the MSDN updated to point at these samples soon. The goal of this update, of course, was to get these samples working with Outlook 2010,

MrXP Rules (At Least When You Tell It To)

I’m repeating myself – I did use a variation on this title before. In this case, suppose you’re using a custom transport provider, like MrXP , and you’re delivering to a regular (not wrapped) PST. In Outlook 2003, this worked great. If you had rules set

Fastest Shutdown In The West

I previously wrote about some changes the development team had in mind for Outlook 2007 SP2 in the area of shutdown. The change discussed there, known as Shutdown With External References, allows Outlook to shut down completely even if there are outstanding

Well Behaved Store Providers

The first answer I give to customers asking for tips on making their store provider work with the latest versions of Outlook is "be well behaved". I've had a couple message store provider cases recently that illustrate this and give me an opportunity

Fixed the Wrapped PST Sample

When I announced the Outlook 2007 Auxiliary Reference , I noted there were a few issues with the wrapped PST sample that I hadn't had time to fix. Well, they're fixed now. You can find the updated download here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ee0af8fd-bbb7-44de-be4d-f33cb1b59563&displaylang=en

Don't Crawl On Me

[This is now documented here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb905130.aspx ] There are a few places in Outlook that need to enumerate the folders in the message stores in a profile. It's usually looking for folders of a certain type. Normally

Whodathunkit?

I managed to waste half a morning figuring out something I'm supposed to already know. Dev asked if I could confirm that MrXP works with Outlook 2007 so we can include it in some upcoming documentation. Sure thing. First step is to install it right? Here's

Why Outlook Won't Show Your Messages

We've gotten a rash of cases where message store developers complain that their store worked "perfectly fine" against Outlook 2003, but is broken now with Outlook 2007. The common symptom with all of them is that at some point, Outlook stops

Outlook 2007 RTM Docs - Notification Based Indexing Support

[This is now documented here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb821096.aspx , http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb821097.aspx , http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb821099.aspx , http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb821100.aspx

Managing Entry IDs in the Wrapped PST

Update – this is now part of the Outlook MAPI Code Samples . [This is now documented here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb905271.aspx , http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb821132.aspx ] Sam Khavari of Zimbra asked me if I had noticed

Updated MSLMS Sample Posted

A while back, I posted an article about the fixes Jason and I had to make to the MSLMS sample message store to get it to load under Outlook 2003. Since then, I've received numerous requests that I post the changes. I wasn't ignoring the requests - I've

MAPI Store Providers and Outlook 2003

Put this together from a posting I made to the MAPI-L list and a couple cases I worked recently: The problem is with MAPI store providers that just don't work when loaded under Outlook 2003. The developers of the providers, when they contact us, are usually
 
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