Introduction to Web Services in Exchange 2010
Last modified: May 22, 2009
Applies to: Exchange Server 2007 | Exchange Server 2010
The Web services that are included in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 provide an XML messaging interface that enables you to manage Exchange store items and access Exchange server functionality from client applications.
Exchange 2010 includes the following Web services:
Exchange Web Services (EWS)
The Autodiscover (SOAP) service
The Autodiscover (POX) service
The Unified Messaging Web service
For more information about these Web services, see the following topics:
Using This SDK to Create Web Services–Based Applications
If you are familiar with the Exchange Server 2007 SP1 SDK and want to know what’s new in the Exchange 2010 Web Services SDK, read the What’s New in the Exchange 2010 Web Services SDK topic first.
For information about the development technologies and features that Exchange 2010 provides for client access to Exchange store items, see Introduction to Web Services in Exchange 2010. After you are familiar with the new features in Exchange 2010, you can find out more about the underlying concepts and mechanisms that are required to create client applications that work with Exchange 2010 in the Web Services in Exchange 2010 Concepts section. We recommend that you review this section before you move on to the topics in the Working with Web Services in Exchange 2010 section of the SDK, because the code examples that are included in these topics are based on the concepts presented.
The Working with Web Services in Exchange 2010 section provides information to help you perform specific tasks by using Exchange Web Services. If you are new to Exchange Web Services application development, start with the EWS Client Development in Exchange 2010 and Core Exchange 2010 Development Tasks topics.
To explore functional samples that use Exchange Web Services with Exchange 2010, see Web Services Development Solutions. And finally, for detailed information about Web services APIs in Exchange 2010, see Reference.