Earlier i got a chance to play around creating recurring tasks. I followed the article from MSDN and it worked like charm for me. public TaskType CreateRecurringTask() { // Create the task item and set property values. TaskType task = new TaskType(); task.Subject = "Recurring Task" ; task.Body = new BodyType(); task.Body.BodyType1 = BodyTypeType.Text; task.Body.Value = "Occurs every week" ; task.StartDate = DateTime.Now; task.StartDateSpecified = true ;   // Create the regeneration

Recently one of my customer updated that they get an different issue with their ASP application. This application running on their Web server that uses MAPI to read the Contacts folder in the Public Folders from Exchange Server 2003 SP2 machine. The user can retrieve his email in outlook and browse the public folders as he is used to, but when this user want to use the ASP page that reads the public folder he fails. Customer receives the following error: bstrPublicRootID = objInfoStore.Fields.Item(&H66310102).Value

Reading Journal attachments using Outlook Object Model: This time, i tried to read all the email and their attachments using Outlook Object Model. I used the following code snippet to do this. 'Code Snippet : How to retrieve Outlook attachments using Visual Basic for Application (VBA) Dim omailitem As Outlook.JournalItem Dim myJournal As Outlook.Items Dim oattach As Outlook.Attachment   Set myNamespace = Application.GetNamespace( "MAPI" ) Set myJournal = myNamespace.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderJournal).Items

After created couple of journal items in my test lab, i thought this time i want to play around with the Journal items. Also i want to try the following programmatically: 1) iterate all the available journal items 2) Restrict the values with a (if the Lastmodificationtime > ‘23/9/2009’) specific time frame For this i used Items( index). Here index is the index number of a journal entry or a value used to match the default property of a journal entry, to return a single JournalItem object from

I want to share my research (that i tried to play around with Journal items) with respect to Outlook Object Model API to you. How to create the new Journal Item programmatically using Outlook Object Model? Now, we can try how we can create a new Journal Item. Code snippet: Creating a new Journal Item with Outlook Object Model & VBA 'Creates a new journal item Dim objMail As Outlook.JournalItem 'Create journal mail item Set objMail = Application.CreateItem(olJournalItem) With objMail .Body = "First

Earlier i was working with one of the customer, where he wants to use Outlook Object Model to, - retrieve the default contact folder items - restrict on the retrieved items - get the restricted items and gets its values – Full Name, Categories, FileAs… etc Here is the way that i tried it – Code Snippet for your reference: Dim oOutlook As Outlook.Application Dim oNameSpace As Outlook. NameSpace Dim oFolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder Dim oContacts As Outlook.Items Dim oContact As Outlook.ContactItem Dim

You can get the MAPI reference for Outlook 2010 using MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc765775(office.14).aspx MAPI for Outlook 2010 provides a set of interfaces, functions, and other data types to facilitate the development of Outlook 2010 messaging applications. Applications and transports use MAPI to manipulate e-mail data, to create e-mail messages and the folders to store them in, and to support notifications of changes to existing MAPI-related data. Something related, that if

With continuation of my previous article , it just points out to find how we can get by using UI(User Interface like snap-in, MMC Console, ESM..etc)’s. This time, let me try something different with Exchange Server 2007 (i tried with Exchange Server 2007 SP1 RUx) with its powershell/cmdlet. In order to get the version number, i tried like this to obtain the attributes of the server, > Get-ExchangeServer | Select ExchangeVersion, AdminDisplayVersion This provides the ExchangeVersion and AdminDisplayVersion

With continuation of my previous–related blog post , I got this task to find out the way how to identify the existing categories and updating/adding new categories in Outlook 2007 using Outlook Object Model programmatically. I tried the following to find whether the category exists or not: Public Function CategoryExists(categoryName As String ) As Boolean   Dim category As Outlook.category   Set category = Application.Session.categories(categoryName)   If Not (category Is Nothing )

While working with one of my customer we noticed that the yearly recurring appointment doesn’t show in Outlook Web Access or Exchange Web Services(EWS) application. Customer created a monthly or yearly recurring appointment. He set the request to occur on the second, third, or fourth weekday of a month. But, whenever we use Outlook Web Access (OWA) client or customer’s Exchange Web Service (EWS) application to view this request, the request is set to occur on the first weekday of the month; but strangely,