For lack of a better word
We see this as common question in Microsoft Support so I wanted to lay out the approach Outlook for...
Date: 10/29/2018
I know I'm a little late to the party, but I just came across this and I'm very excited about its...
Date: 10/24/2017
I had a case recently where the customer wanted to know how to programmatically create a MAPI over...
Date: 06/19/2017
I have had several customers interested in how to access the Recovery Database (RDB)...
Date: 03/20/2017
I had a case recently where the customer was using my post for creating a Outlook 2016 profile...
Date: 03/16/2017
I've been meaning to create this post for a while, but haven't got around to it. I had a case...
Date: 12/13/2016
I had a case recently where the customer was had written a service application using Extended MAPI....
Date: 09/19/2016
I wanted to create a simple Extended MAPI application that would call MAPIInitialize() followed by...
Date: 07/25/2016
As documented previously, Exchange 2016 will not allow connections from Exchange's MAPI (aka MAPI ...
Date: 12/14/2015
The process for creating a Outlook profile in Outlook 2016 has changed. This article documents the...
Date: 10/28/2015
I wanted to point out a significant note for some in the Exchange 2016 Architecture blog post here :...
Date: 06/18/2015
Wanna learn Extended MAPI? Sure, we all do. Well most likely not, but in every project there comes a...
Date: 03/26/2015
In Exchange 2013 Cumulative Update 3, Exchange stopped stamping the property HomeMTA on the user...
Date: 03/13/2015
Using the EmailMessage.Normalize method in a transport agent causes issues with Exchange Server 2013 CU7
I received a report that if you have an existing transport agent and use the method...
Date: 02/02/2015
In Exchange 2007, Out of Office (OOF) was improved and how the mechanism worked was changed. To...
Date: 01/06/2015
The flag PRXF_IGNORE_SEC_WARNING doesn't work in MAPI \ CDO as it should. The flag was introduced to...
Date: 10/30/2014
One of the common calls I take in my job are from developers trying to write Instant Messaging and...
Date: 08/06/2014
NOTE: This article only applies to Exchange's MAPI \ CDO download. It doesn't apply to using CDO...
Date: 07/30/2014
I had a case six months ago where the customer was using Exchange’s MAPI against Exchange 2013...
Date: 07/16/2014
I had a case recently where the customer's symptoms where that his application was causing a...
Date: 06/27/2014
MAPI clients wishing to get the correct Autodiscover settings for Exchange 2013 need to get the...
Date: 06/11/2014
I had a case recently where the customer was trying to use Basic Authentication for RPC over HTTP...
Date: 03/18/2014
I had another case involving creating a profile to an Office 365 mailbox. However, this time it was...
Date: 01/17/2014
I had another case involving creating a profile to an Exchange 2013 server. However, this time...
Date: 01/16/2014
[Edit: 1/23/2014 - This new interface did not ship in the December 2013 CU. I was incorrect. I am...
Date: 01/15/2014
Of course if you have a MAPI application you are most likely familiar with the 9646 errors. Event...
Date: 01/06/2014
I had a case recently with a customer where he was calling IMAPIProp::GetProps() asking for, among...
Date: 09/10/2013
I helped in a case recently where the customer needed to use Exchange’s MAPI to connect to...
Date: 07/15/2013
As promised in my previous post, here is an post which walks you through the creation of a profile...
Date: 05/27/2013
Well it's finally released. The long awaited MAPI/CDO download that includes the documentation which...
Date: 05/21/2013
The Exchange Writer for Exchange 2013 will list Recovery Databases (RDB) in it's writer metadata....
Date: 03/15/2013
This is already documented in the release notes but I wanted to call out that in Exchange 2013 you...
Date: 02/21/2013
In Exchange 2013 you may see the following in the event log if you don't call resume in your...
Date: 02/18/2013
If you are on Exchange 2010 you will need SP3 to coexist with Exchange 2013. Exchange 2010 SP3 was...
Date: 02/12/2013
I am currently troubleshooting an issue and wrote some code in an effort to reproduce it. However,...
Date: 01/31/2013
I have been wanting to post this for awhile but never got around to it. I have only seen two cases...
Date: 12/10/2012
I recently had a case where a customer wanted to know how to create S/MIME messages. We have an...
Date: 05/04/2012
Personal archive mailboxes are new in Exchange 2010. They are designed to be a replacement for...
Date: 08/10/2011
If you have done any remote runspace creation against Exchange 2010 you have undoubtly run into this...
Date: 07/20/2011
How to use the Microsoft Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant (ExTra) to troubleshoot RPC Client Access issues
I often ask customers to use ExTra to troubleshoot RPC Client Access issues. Rather then write this...
Date: 05/27/2011
Well here is just more of the same, Stephen posted about querying an item to see whether it's...
Date: 08/17/2010
My colleague Stephen Griffin recently blogged about how to show or hide the Sender Contact Photo...
Date: 08/12/2010
I got a question today about if one could set the Outlook Security Settings programmatically instead...
Date: 06/23/2010
PSSCOR2 has been released to the public! I have been using this tool for years and I cannot describe...
Date: 03/30/2010
First, let's define what a Local Runspace is and how that differs from the one you would use for...
Date: 02/25/2010
Since posting the Remote Powershell sample I have had many people ask me how to make a connection to...
Date: 02/22/2010
From: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Daylight saving timezone...
Date: 12/29/2009
In Exchange 2007 if you wanted to enable HTTP for Exchange Web Services all you had to do was go...
Date: 12/22/2009
www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=371add31-d7a0-4c8b-8325-a6fced2d05e6&di...
Date: 12/09/2009
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Date: 10/22/2009