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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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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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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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Monday, July 13, 2009 3:19 PM

Enter the 64 Bit MAPI Dragon

Up until today, the first rule of 64 bit MAPI was we don’t talk about 64 bit MAPI. But now we can talk about it. 64 bit MAPI has arrived! We just released the Outlook 2010 MAPI Reference today. If you develop MAPI based applications, you’ll want to get
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Wednesday, July 08, 2009 11:27 AM

Exchange MAPI and the Form Manager

Had a customer contact me recently asking why MAPIOpenFormMgr doesn’t work with the Exchange MAPI download . Actually, it wasn’t working in Exchange 2003 either. I’m not sure exactly when it last worked in Exchange’s implementation of MAPI. We might have
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Friday, June 26, 2009 1:15 PM

Outlook 2003 Also Rules

A little follow-up to the Outlook Rules post , concerning getting rules to fire when you’ve got a wrapped PST store. I had noted in the original post that rules “just worked” in Outlook 2003. Turns out I was partially right. They can work in Outlook 2003,
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Thursday, June 11, 2009 9:42 AM

Troubleshooting Outlook Crashes

I recently reviewed an excellent article on troubleshooting Outlook crashes which was just published in the Knowledge Base. While I no longer work in Outlook product support directly, in my role as a Developer Support engineer, I see Outlook crashes all
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Thursday, March 26, 2009 11:18 AM

Outlook Security Labels

We don’t get many calls here in Developer Support asking for help writing Security Labels for Outlook, but those calls we do get have always been difficult to work. The primary reason for this difficulty is the only documentation we had for creating a
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Tuesday, March 03, 2009 1:08 PM

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
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