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Monday, November 09, 2009 3:18 PM

Announcing EWSEditor 1.5!

Matt’s very excited about the release of EWSEditor . This tool does for EWS what MFCMAPI does for MAPI. With this tool, Matt does what I did with MFCMAPI and what I recommend to anyone trying to learn a new API: the best way to learn an API is to write
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Monday, October 26, 2009 1:12 PM

Inside the PST

As Paul Thurrott notes, we just announced that we’re documenting the PST file structure . I haven’t decided yet if I’ll be writing a standalone parser/viewer/validator, but I’m sure I’ll be adding some interesting stuff to MFCMAPI . I’ll let you know
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Friday, October 09, 2009 3:39 PM

So Long System Attendant Mailbox

Dave has a post up about the fate of the System Attendant Mailbox in Exchange 2010 . Since this mailbox isn’t there anymore in 2010, if you have a solution that depended on it, you’ll need to rework it. Dave gives a few suggestions, such as creating your
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Monday, October 05, 2009 10:07 AM

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
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 9:57 AM

EnumAccounts Sample and Some New Account Management Props

A while back, Jason posted an Account Management API sample. I’ve threatened promised before that I would post an update to this sample, and I finally got around to it. You can download the updated sample here . In addition to adding a –W command to call
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 2:26 PM

OpenStreamOnFile vs Unicode Files

Let’s take a look at the function OpenStreamOnFile , which is exported by MAPI. Suppose you want to use this function to open a stream on a file that has a Unicode file name. As has been noted before, this doesn’t work. Why is this? According to the documentation,
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Monday, September 28, 2009 12:58 PM

Detecting Sharepoint PSTs

We had a customer recently who was asking how to tell a PST had been configured as a Sharepoint PST, so they could exclude it from some processing they were doing. After some digging, I found the property that Outlook itself uses to determine a PST is
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Thursday, September 10, 2009 4:48 PM

September 2009 Release of MFCMAPI

The September 2009 Release (build 6.0.0.1015) is live: http://mfcmapi.codeplex.com . The July 2009 release was downloaded over 13 thousand times, with nearly 1700 of them being the 64 bit build. This was the most popular release yet – retiring MAPI Editor
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Wednesday, September 02, 2009 2:06 PM

Exchange 2010 and the MAPI Download

Bunches of people have contacted me asking if the MAPI download works with Exchange 2010. My usual response has been that I know it works, but you have to tweak the profile. I didn’t know the specific tweaks ‘cause I hadn’t looked in to it. Dave Vespa
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Monday, August 31, 2009 5:01 PM

Outlook 2010 MAPI Reference Updated

The Outlook 2010 MAPI Reference has been updated. I don’t have a list of everything that changed, so I’ll highlight one addition that’s pretty cool: the property definition stream . Long time readers might remember I mentioned this property before – it’s
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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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Thursday, August 13, 2009 5:49 PM

More Fun With Check Name

I just closed case where the customer was trying to create a profile but Check Name was constantly prompting for credentials and then failing. This wasn’t the reconfig issue I mentioned before – they couldn’t create the profile in the first place. Even
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009 5:49 PM

Auth and Check Names

When I posted the Referral Madness article, there was an intriguing comment that I didn’t get a chance to investigate until it came up in a case. The commenter noted that when we used RPC_C_AUTHN_GSS_NEGOTIATE as our authentication mechanism, we could
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Friday, August 07, 2009 1:54 PM

Your Cache is No Good Here

The first time we saw this, we wrote it off as an odd thing one customer did. But we’ve seen it a few times over the past couple years and it deserves some discussion. The issue is with Exchange Client Extensions (remember – they’re dead in 2010 !): Customers
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Monday, July 27, 2009 10:03 AM

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,
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