That’s My Name, Don’t Wear It Out
Part 1 It used to be in earlier versions of Exchange, you were able to change the names of the “special” folders, like Inbox, Calendar, Tasks, etc. This is because MAPI keeps track of the Entry ID for...
View ArticleHow To Programmatically Access Exchange 2010 Archive Mailboxes
Archive mailboxes are a new concept in Exchange 2010 that solve some of the problems inherent in PST archives – the primary of which being that there’s no way to access your PST files from a different...
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Introducing The Outlook Social Connector Provider Proxy Library
You may have heard of OfficeTalk. You may have heard of the Outlook Social Connector. As it turns out, my team is responsible for supporting developers building Outlook Social Connector (OSC) providers...
View ArticleRude Operator
If you are automating Outlook in a standalone application or other app outside of Outlook and have trouble on some machines with your CreateObject call succeeding when Outlook is not already running,...
View ArticleMoving your apps to Office 2010
The Office team put out some Channel9 videos and some tools to help you get your add-ins and applications onto the Office 2010 platform. https://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/Office2010/AppCompatUnit/
View ArticleNeither Silverlight 3 nor 4 Work on Outlook Folder Homepages
Starting in Silverlight 3, the algorithm that SL uses to determine the hosting URL of the SL control doesn’t work properly when the page is viewed as part of an Outlook Folder Home Page. This is...
View ArticleOSC Provider Proxy Library Updated
You may remember when I unveiled the Outlook Social Connector Provider Proxy. Well, good news – I have updated the OSC Provider Proxy Library to now support OSC v1.1 and also built it for .NET v3.5 in...
View ArticleRPC_S_UNKNOWN_IF When Calling IDataSource.SaveTo in CDOEX on Exchange 2007
We’ve been seeing some cases over the past year where customers are using CDOEX or EXOLEDB in managed code on Windows Server 2008 and Exchange 2007 and are randomly getting RPC_S_UNKNOWN_IF...
View ArticleOffice 2010 PIAs Are Now Available
The Office 2010 PIAs are finally available for download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=938fe8ad-583b-4bd7-a345-23250dc15855
View ArticleHow to Build an Outlook Social Connector Provider
Last fall, the Outlook documentation team approached me about using an Outlook Social Connector provider I built for an internal social network we have here at Microsoft (called OfficeTalk) as an...
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