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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
Posted by Stephen Griffin | 4 Comments
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
Posted by Stephen Griffin | 0 Comments
Tuesday, June 09, 2009 10:18 AM

But I Really Need To Open 500 PSTs!

Today we’re revisiting an issue I first encountered in Outlook 2003. We had a customer, a law firm, who kept all the mail associated with a particular case in a PST. Their users would pass these PSTs around, and depending on their case load, a single
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Friday, May 08, 2009 11:31 AM

Unaligned Data and the PST Provider Redux

Just wanted to note that the April Cumulative Update for Outlook 2007 fixes the unaligned data issue with the PST provider. So passing a statically allocated NULL string as a PST password should no longer be a problem. BTW – Outlook’s update isn’t listed
Posted by Stephen Griffin | 0 Comments
Thursday, March 12, 2009 11:17 AM

Fast Shutdown and the Wrapped PST

The PST provider in Outlook 2007 supports Fast Shutdown . The Wrapped PST sample is built by wrapping objects from the PST provider. Ergo, if a provider built on the Wrapped PST model does not intercept queries for IID_IMAPIClientShutdown, it supports
Posted by Stephen Griffin | 2 Comments
Monday, March 09, 2009 9:44 AM

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
Posted by Stephen Griffin | 0 Comments
Thursday, March 05, 2009 9:20 AM

Unaligned Data and the PST Provider

I just wanted to let you know about a problem we’ve found with the February update for Outlook 2007 . If you’ve got code that calls ConfigureMsgService for the PST provider, and you’re passing PR_PST_PW_SZ_OLD (or PR_PST_PW_SZ_NEW) you might run into
Posted by Stephen Griffin | 2 Comments
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 10:06 AM

Ignoring Notifications

Suppose you want to register for notifications on all the visible folders in a user’s mailbox. One option would be to walk the list of folders in the hierarchy tree and register for notifications. That would work, but would be very inefficient. It also
Posted by Stephen Griffin | 3 Comments
Tuesday, February 17, 2009 1:01 PM

Detecting a Password Protected PST

If you’ve been working with PSTs for a while, you’re probably familiar with the properties PR_PST_PW_SZ_OLD and PR_PST_PW_SZ_NEW, given in mspst.h, which are used to access password protected PSTs and also to change the password. I had a customer recently
Posted by Stephen Griffin | 4 Comments
Monday, February 16, 2009 4:25 PM

PST Files In Multiple Profiles

A scenario recently came up that a couple of customers have hit with Outlook’s version of MAPI. These customers are in the business of processing PST files found on a user’s machine. They may be loading them up to scan the messages for viruses, or to
Posted by Stephen Griffin | 5 Comments
Monday, December 01, 2008 2:44 PM

I Did Read Your Message

On my article about enabling rules in the Wrapped PST , Richard pointed out that when you do this, read receipts stop working . We've investigated this and found that there's something a little extra you have to do to get read receipts to fire. Remember
Posted by Stephen Griffin | 0 Comments
Thursday, April 03, 2008 10:13 AM

April 2008 Release of MFCMAPI

The April 2008 Release (build 6.0.0.1005) is live: http://www.codeplex.com/MFCMAPI Here's the change list - see the Issue Tracker on Codeplex for more details, or look at the code: A few compatibility issues with older compilers (VC 6 and VC 2005) - thanks
Posted by Stephen Griffin | 2 Comments
Tuesday, April 01, 2008 11:56 AM

New Restriction Types Seen In Wrapped PSTs

Those of you wrapping PSTs may see something interesting in the restrictions Outlook 2007 will try to set against your folders. There are a couple of new restriction types you won't have seen before. Outlook will only use these restriction types when
Posted by Stephen Griffin | 5 Comments
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 11:26 AM

New Outlook Docs

The January '08 refresh for the Outlook 2007 Auxiliary Reference is now live. In addition to a general scrub over most of the topics, there are some interesting new topics added, such as: Timezone/rebasing docs: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb820976.aspx
Posted by Stephen Griffin | 12 Comments
Thursday, July 12, 2007 4:08 PM

What To Do? What To Do?

[This is now documented here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb905124.aspx ] Melissa put up a blog entry on making a PST show up on the To-Do Bar in Outlook 2007. This naturally raised the question of how you could do this programmatically.
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