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Thursday, April 02, 2009 6:06 PM

Don't redistribute product DLLs unless you know its safe and legal to do so.

Redistribution of files in the “ C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server ” folder and sub-folders is not advised/supported. Yes, this does include the “C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\Public” folder also. These files are installed when the
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Thursday, October 02, 2008 9:59 PM

Links on Common Exchange Web Services (EWS) Questions

I've put together a list of articles which cover common questions on Exchange Web Services (EWS). These links cover issues from starting out to common problems. I hope they help. Please let me know if there is anything important to add. Getting Started:
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Friday, September 26, 2008 5:29 PM

Links on Common PowerShell Automation Questions

I've put together a list of articles which cover common questions on Exchange PowerShell Automation. These links cover issues from starting out to common problems. I hope they help. Please let me know if there are others you see as important. Starting
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Thursday, September 25, 2008 10:18 PM

Howto: Calling Exchange Powershell from an impersonated thread.

There are not many examples on doing doing impersonation for Exchange Powershell and non of the ones I see currently cover a few of the important gotccha’s. So, I put this together and wish to share. Impersonation and Exchange PowerShell: In order to
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Thursday, September 04, 2008 8:36 PM

Howto: Getting Process IDs

There are many ways to get a list of processes with their PID. Here are a few. tlist: "tlist" is in the debuggers folder and can be used to get the pid of a running process: Helpful tlist commands. · tlist /t - Displays a task tree in which each process
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Thursday, September 04, 2008 8:34 PM

Howto: Verifying Symbols after taking a Dump

Once the symbols and dump are received by the person who will be debugging, they can use the commands below to check for the symbols being loaded in a debugger such as Windbg after the symbol path is set. To do this, go into windbg in the debuggers folder
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Thursday, September 04, 2008 8:31 PM

Howto: Verifying Symbols before taking a Dump using symchk

Prior to taking a dump on a program, you should be sure that there are matching symbols for the application the dump is being taken on. Large dumps can take many hours to upload to a person for debugging. You can validate symbols against the executable
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Thursday, September 04, 2008 8:26 PM

Howto: Generate a Mini-Dump with Task Manager in Vista

With Vista, you can create a mini-dump by right clicking on the process in Task Manager. However, user-mode process dump information is not available by using this feature. This feature is not available under Windows 2003 or Windows XP.
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Thursday, September 04, 2008 8:25 PM

Howto: Take a dump in Visual Studio

When an application crashes, the user may only have Visual Studio on the box. When the crash occurs, the developer may be prompted to see if they wish to debug the appliction. If they can choose Visual Studio, then they can save the dump to a file which
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Thursday, September 04, 2008 8:22 PM

Howto: Generating a Hang Dump with adplus

Adplus from the Debugging Tools can be used to get Hang Dumps. Normally, you want to take at least 2 dumps to so the person debugging can get an idea of where the hang is. Installing Adplus and the Debugging SDK: 1) Go to http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/default.mspx
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008 9:45 PM

What's covered by support? General questions and answers.

Customers sometime have a misunderstanding of what is covered when supported is provided. So, I’ve put together a link covering common areas for all to read. I would suggest starting with the link below to get an understanding on what is supported to
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Saturday, August 23, 2008 2:07 AM

Santa, I want it all - WebDAV and the full-meal-deal - allprops.

So, your trying to get "all properties" using WebDAV. Well, hate to break it to you, but there is no way unless you know what every property is and specify it. You will find the same limitation in other messaging APIs - just pick any of them. Now, you
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Friday, August 22, 2008 11:50 PM

mailto - limitations and paths forward

The mailto tag used in html content is used to load the default mapi client (email client) on the user's box when its link is clicked and have it display a window for sending email. The mailto link can contain basic information such as who the message,
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Thursday, August 14, 2008 4:01 PM

Howto: Read Attachments - Webdav: System.Net.HttpWebRequest vs System.Net.WebClient

I’ve run into issues with using a GET to read large attachments using HttpWebRequest. Because of this, I use System.Net.WebClient instead. Big attachments will have an error thrown back with HttpWebRequest, however it’s possible to GET the smaller ones.
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Thursday, August 14, 2008 3:22 PM

Enumerating fields for CDOSYS, System.Web.Mail and System.Net.Mail

There are times when you may want to enumerate the fields set on a message while debugging issues with CDOSYS, System.Web.Mail, or System.Net.Mail. Below is sample code which will enumerate these fields. As you can see, there are some considerable differenences
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