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First thing first, you should understand that this is NOT SUPPORTED & NOT RECOMMENDED solution by Microsoft. This is just a proof of concept that OWA 2007 can be auto login, if you know the username & password of target account. The approach is
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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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This is going to be a very simple sample of how you can send an email with custom properties set and also change the message class so that it render on outlook as Custom Form. Prerequisites: A custom form must be published with same class name to render
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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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This is my first attempt to write a Powershell sample to my readers. In this sample we will give Send-As, Receive-As, ms-Exch-Store-Admin rights to an active directory user. We will be piping two commands here… Get-MailboxServer and the result will go
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If you ever tried to modify the msExchMailboxSecurityDescriptor attribute directory then you must be aware that this attribute exists on the user object in the Active Directory and stores a partial copy of the user's mailbox security descriptor. This
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I think you may find it useful as well. I wrote this script to monitor a particular mailbox for unread emails count in a particular folder and notify people about it. It could be useful to monitor a service mailbox and make sure it does not have any email
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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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Of course you cannot use WMI to manage Exchange 2007, obviously Powershell is more power full and recommended to be used on Exchange 2007 Server. We will talk about Powershell and how to do same for 2007 later. For now you can use following script to
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This was a tough one and was lots of learning for me as well. Me and my colleague was working on a customer issue where his intentions were to list all the permissions on Exchange 2003 Mailbox Store. Of course one can go to Exchange System Manager (ESM),
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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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