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Want to learn Exchange Web Service but not sure how and from where? Here are the few articles that I share very often with partners and customers who want to learn more about Exchange Web Services. Undoubtedly there is so much information out there and
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First thing first, this is just for demonstration purpose and might *not* be a supported solution by Microsoft. The setting we are reading from are hidden messages and not documented anywhere. I had to reverse engineer it for demonstration purpose. Objective
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Good news for all .Net developers working with Exchange or willing to work with Exchange but have zero experience in the domain. Exchange Team had been working so hard to reduce your efforts and improve your efficiency. Check out these videos to see what
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I have been working on different SearchFolders cases lately where customers were trying to create SearchFolder using EWS. Working on those issues has uncovered a limitation of Outlook (I tested it on 2007, but may exist with earlier versions as well)
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Here is a quick sample if you are looking at creating a search folder using EWS which will look for Custom Property. Here we are looking for a custom property named “EmployeeID” and make sure that the property exist and does not have a blank value. public
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I had explained earlier how you can consume Exchange Web Services like WebDAV from VBScript in the below sample http://blogs.msdn.com/vikas/archive/2007/11/22/howto-ews-call-exchange-web-service-from-vbscript.aspx Today I had a requirement to send Unicode
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What are we doing here? What is Search Folder? Why do I care? Search folders are a quick way to bookmark your frequently searched items. It allows you to save a search query with predefined parameters for quick access. For instance I am always looking
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My fellow colleague had this customer who was using Exchange Web Services to update body of an appointment item. He created a new appointment from Outlook with some body text, attachments in the body to the position where he wanted, subject & location.
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I thought it was just the last month full of bugs and fixes. This month also started with a Exchange Web Services bug.. or better Exchange Bug as Exchange Web Service is just a victim :( If you add an attachment to a single occurrence of a recurring CalendarItem,
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Another fine day and some great timings. I was discussing this bug with product group hoping that it is not faced by anyone outside Microsoft and then the phone rings.... I am getting the following error while trying to do a FindFolder call on to Public
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I am starting a new series called "Tip of the day" and will share tips and tricks here on HOWTO do something faster and better. Today I will talk about my favorite topic, Exchange Web Services. We all know WFetch and have been using the same
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If yes then I would like to hear from you. Your experiences, challenges, things you feel are barriers and things that could make it even better. Do you need samples? What sort of operations you want to perform using Exchange Web Services? You may ask
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As you may already know, EWS has support for Soft-Deleting items but the irony is it cannot access the soft-deleted items. This is a design challenge and product group is aware of this limitation. Hopefully we should see this support natively in EWS sooner
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First thing first, you cannot use Exchange Web Services (as of now) to update the IsRead flag for items other than MessageType. MessageType has IsRead property in place to update the MAPI property PR_MESSAGE_FLAGS. Product group is aware of this limitation
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The most awaited book on programming Exchange 2007 Server using Exchange Web Services is out. Get it here - http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/10724.aspx No doubts that Exchange Web Services is next big thing and there is lot more to come in this
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