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Debugging functions : How to debug an application without any debugger?
Using OutputDebugString If the application has no debugger, the system debugger displays the string...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 12/11/2008
How OWA & Exchange 2000, 2003 and 2007 coexists ?
If you work with Outlook Web Access (OWA) along with Exchange Server 2000 or/and Exchange Server...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 12/08/2008
Blogpost's related to MAPI docs
I read couple of related blogpost's related to MAPI documentation. You can start reading from...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 12/08/2008
PDC'08 : Exchange Web Services Managed API & how Exchange is getting “Cloud Ready”
Some time earlier there was a silent & stable, services platform launched by Microsoft known as...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 12/08/2008
Webcast & Whitepaper: Exchange Online
As you know the new Microsoft Exchange Online is the messaging component of the Business...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 12/08/2008
Outlook & automatic categorization with Rules
I found this interesting and useful blogpost by Justin Mahood (Outlook Program Manager), which talks...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 12/08/2008
Exchange Server: How to retrieve appointments using C# & WebDAV?
Code Snippet (C#): //Declaration part string strExchSvrName = ""; string strMailbox = ""; string...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 12/03/2008
How to show & recover the deleted subfolders using PFDAVAdmin tool?
Using PFDAVAdmin we need to use the "Show deleted subfolders" option which enumerates any...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 12/02/2008
Outlook 2007 & Hyperlinks
Microsoft Office 2007 system contains several settings that enable you to control the way external...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 12/02/2008
How to authenticate the Inbox in Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 with forms-based authentication enabled?
Please find the Code Snippet Access Exchange Server 2003 using WebDAV in your Web application per...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 12/02/2008
Various Outlook versions : .pst file has different formats & folder size limits
Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 & Outlook 2003 have both a different format and a larger overall...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 12/01/2008
Outlook Programming: Custom forms & disabling the macro warning?
This issue happens if the form is not located in a trusted location, such as the Organizational...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 12/01/2008
Outlook programming : Looping individual mails inside the Inbox
1: 'myLoop method 2: Sub myLoop() 3: 4: 'Declaration 5: Dim olApp As Outlook.Application 6:...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 12/01/2008
Outlook Programming : How to get the File Menu commands programmatically?
This time we will try using the Outlook Object model, we can able to get the Outlook File Menu...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 11/19/2008
Office e-documents & Metadata
Do we share metadata? Yes, we do, it may be knowingly or unknowingly. Take the case, that you share...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 11/19/2008
Transport Agent Factories
Transport agent implementation: In general the transport agent is implemented as a class that...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 11/12/2008
Video : Demo of Exchange Server 2007, Windows Vista and Office 2007
Find the enclosed demo of Exchange Server 2007, Windows Vista and Office 2007, which can give a...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 11/11/2008
Gotcha - PermanentURL & WebDAV Series # 1
Take this scenario. One of my customer wanted to updated the contact fields using PR_ENTRY_ID and...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 11/11/2008
Creating Outlook rules not possible using Exchange Web Services?
When i working with the customer who is working with Exchange Server 2007, the discussion turned...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 11/11/2008
Outlook 2007 : Color category not getting printed AS-IS
One of my customer reported that whenever he assign the color categories to his Outlook items (in...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 11/10/2008
Microsoft Support Policies and Recommendations for Exchange Servers in Hardware Virtualization Environments
As you know Hardware Virtualization software enables you to run multiple, separate operating systems...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 11/10/2008
Monitoring event sink # 29 - Event Sink & VSAPI
Viruses, worms, and other malicious content transmitted by e-mail systems are a destructive reality...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 11/10/2008
Monitoring event sink # 28 - Attachments Are Missing When You Use an Event Sink to Modify the Stream of Messages
One of my customer reported that they have a store event sink, which is used to modify the stream of...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 11/10/2008
Monitoring event sink # 27 - After you register an event sink on a mailbox store, the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service does not start in Exchange Server 2003
One of my customer had migrated from Exchange server 2000 to Exchange Server 2003, where had an...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 11/10/2008
Monitoring event sink # 26 - Implementing onTimer Event sink
Timers & Events: Whenever we talk about the event sink and we plan to implement the event sink...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 11/07/2008
Monitoring event sink # 25 - Recipients modified mail (using event sink) sent from PICKUP folder and lands in the DROP folder ?
Recipients modified email messages (using event sink) sent from PICKUP folder and lands in the DROP...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 10/31/2008
Test and troubleshooting tools for various Exchange technologies
I tried to compose the test and troubleshooting tools for various exchange technologies. This...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 10/29/2008
CDOSYS + Quoted-printable
Code snippet 'private void cmdSend_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 10/28/2008
Gotcha : PowerShell questions
I composed couple of Windows PowerShell questions: Can you create your own PowerShell object? We can...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 10/28/2008
API's that are not included in Exchange Server 2007 ?
When you migrated from Microsoft Exchange 2000 & 2003, where they provide several API's that are...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 10/28/2008
Monitoring event sink # 24 - Store event sink is not working as expected in Exchange Server 2007
When i am working with my customer with regards to Exchange store event sink, he reported it's not...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 10/28/2008
Nutshell : MSXML is not supported in .Net applications
I started working from Visual Basic 6, where i had used XML Parser (MS XML) to fetch the data's...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 10/23/2008
Tutorial : Organizational Forms Library - Series # 2
Can we create it programmatically? To create it programmatically using MAPI, we need to make use of...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 10/21/2008
Tutorial : Organizational Forms Library - Series # 1
What are the various types of Outlook form libraries available? There are three types of Outlook...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 10/21/2008
Microsoft Learning’s limited time offer – Second shot can save 25% more
Second Shot now offers two incentives to get certified! Today, Second Shot provides the benefit of a...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 10/16/2008
Microsoft Product Lifecycle : Visual Basic, Exchange Server and Outlook (various versions)
Microsoft Product Lifecycle for various versions of Visual Basic Products Released General...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 10/15/2008
Monitoring event sink # 23 - OnsyncSave global Events causing notifications
One of my customer who has reported that on Exchange Server 2000 his Store event sink (onSyncSave)...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 10/15/2008
Available public : List of exported Outlook APIs - definitions, data structures, functions & interfaces
As described in the MSDN article, Microsoft Office Outlook exports the following definitions, data...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 10/15/2008
Out of Scope : How To Programmatically Cause the Creation of a User's Profile - Windows ?
Hi, this is a new series called “Out of scope”, where i am trying to add non-Messaging Dev...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 10/13/2008
Tutorial : Free/Busy data - Series # 1
Publishing Free/Busy data: Free/busy data is published information that contains a user's personal...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 10/13/2008
Outlook Programming Series # 14 : How to - Create a Rule to Move Specific E-mails to a Folder programmatically ?
The code sample uses the RuleAction and RuleCondition objects to specify a rule that moves messages...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 10/09/2008
Outlook Programming Series # 13 : Programmatic equivalent for Outlook UI's Send/Receive
Whenever we work with Outlook 2007 UI, we click either "Send/Receive button" or press "F9" to send...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 10/09/2008
Outlook 2007 / MS CRM : Access denied error - [0x80070005-0x80070005-0x000508]
Whenever we send any email from the Outlook client (Outlook 2007) & MS CRM the email bounces...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 10/09/2008
Error Codes : Windows Mail and Windows Live Mail error codes
I came across this KB article which contains a list of error codes that may occur in Windows Mail or...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 10/09/2008
Outlook Errors : General Errors - Part # 2
Receive error when you press F9 to send and receive e-mail in Outlook 2007 & Cached Exchange...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 10/09/2008
Outlook Errors : Send and receive e-mail errors - Part # 1
Outlook Send and receive e-mail errors: When you try to send and receive e-mail, you may receive an...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 10/09/2008
How to access a particular mailbox using Microsoft Exchange web services ?
In this article, we will see how we can access a particular mailbox using Microsoft Exchange web...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 10/08/2008
Screencast: Outlook Context Menus and Creating a Meeting from an Email
Please view this wonderful Screencast from channel9, which easily we can able to create our own menu...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 10/08/2008
Exchange Server 2007 & Domain Security
Exchange 2007 includes a new feature set that is named "Domain Security." Domain Security...
Author: Deva [MSFT] Date: 10/07/2008