Wiz/dumb

Messaging development spouts and findings.

How to Build an Outlook Social Connector Provider

Last fall, the Outlook documentation team approached me about using an Outlook Social Connector...

Date: 01/27/2011

Office 2010 PIAs Are Now Available

The Office 2010 PIAs are finally available for download:...

Date: 09/08/2010

RPC_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...

Date: 08/26/2010

OSC Provider Proxy Library Updated

You may remember when I unveiled the Outlook Social Connector Provider Proxy. Well, good news – I...

Date: 07/20/2010

Neither 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...

Date: 06/30/2010

Moving your apps to Office 2010

The Office team put out some Channel9 videos and some tools to help you get your add-ins and...

Date: 06/15/2010

Rude Operator

If you are automating Outlook in a standalone application or other app outside of Outlook and have...

Date: 06/09/2010

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...

Date: 04/12/2010

How 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...

Date: 03/04/2010

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...

Date: 02/01/2010

Push Notifications broken in Exchange 2010

We recently found a bug in the way Exchange 2010 calls into your EWS Push Notification endpoint. You...

Date: 12/02/2009

Fixing the Charset on MIME Messages When Using ADODB.Stream.ReadText

We had an issue recently where the customer had written an application to process MIME messages that...

Date: 10/29/2009

Parsing ServerVersion: When an Int Is Really 5 Ints

I recently had a case where a customer was asking how to figure out the mailbox version of a given...

Date: 09/21/2009

MimeContent vs Mime Content

Recently, I helped a customer with an issue where they were wondering if it was essential to set the...

Date: 09/16/2009

Exchange 2007 SP2 is Released

In case you missed it, Exchange 2007 SP2 was released this week. There are some cool new features,...

Date: 08/27/2009

Line Breaks in Managed Web Service Proxy Classes

Matt, Rick, and I were working on an issue recently where when an application using EWS would set a...

Date: 07/22/2009

ConfigureMsgService fails with MAPI_E_INVALID_PARAMETER (0x80070057)

I recently helped a customer with an issue where they were calling ConfigureMsgService and that call...

Date: 07/10/2009

DeleteItem Ignores ChangeKeys

According to our documentation, DeleteItem calls should fail with a ErrorStaleObject error when the...

Date: 07/08/2009

TNEF (Chapter 2): Old School

As discussed in Chapter 1 of this captivating series, MAPI contains an interface to allow developers...

Date: 01/27/2009

TNEF (Chapter 1): Basics

I’ve worked quite a few cases recently regarding problems some folks have had either reading or...

Date: 01/16/2009

New Drop of MAPI/CDO Download Released Today

After a hiccup earlier this week in getting the new MAPI & CDO downloads published to...

Date: 12/19/2008

MAPI Docs Moved

So, the Exchange team decided they didn't want to maintain the MAPI documentation anymore since they...

Date: 12/04/2008

Trouble with Live Search Maps Add-in for Outlook

Several million of you have downloaded the Live Search Maps Add-in for Outlook which allows...

Date: 10/22/2008

Misha Shneerson : COM Interop: Handling events has side effects

Misha, a Senior Dev on the VSTO team just posted this blog describing why handling events in managed...

Date: 10/22/2008

OnSyncDelete Delete

The Exchange team is looking for some feedback on business scenarios that will be impacted by...

Date: 09/30/2008

Forwarding Appointments in Outlook Prepopulates “To” Field With All Attendees

We’ve had a lot of folks calling in recently about this one. The symptoms are that if you go to your...

Date: 09/19/2008

Can’t Get Raw MIME in Transport Event in Exchange 2007 SP1

If you wrote a Transport Agent for Exchange 2007 RTM which was accessing the raw MIME message which...

Date: 08/13/2008

Why Pickups are the Best. More Robust, More Reliable, etc.

We get calls about this all the time. You have a CDOSYS application that…what? No, I’m not talking...

Date: 08/08/2008

Form Region Leak in Visual Studio Tools for Office 2008 (v3) Template

I had a case on this a few months ago, but thought more folks might run into this as they start...

Date: 08/07/2008

Understanding How You Use This Blog

The folks at CTS are asking us to post the following survey to our blogs. You only need to respond...

Date: 08/05/2008

You Say Toemaytoe I Say Tahmahtah

We’ve seen a bunch of folks asking recently if their Exchange 2007 CAS server can talk to their...

Date: 07/16/2008

RPC - Really Problematic Conundrum

I’ve had a couple cases recently where customers were having problems getting into deadlock with one...

Date: 07/15/2008

How does E2k7's API Stack Stack up?

Check this out: Exchange Server 2007 Legacy API Property Mapping This helps you compare WebDAV/CDOEX...

Date: 06/20/2008

Two-way STSSync Protocol Server for Outlook 2007

So I've finally done it. I made the first stab at a two-way stssync protocol server. You can get it...

Date: 06/10/2008

Outlook Requests Can't Get a Date

There exists a scenario in which attendees to a meeting in Outlook will receive an updated meeting...

Date: 04/23/2008

STSSync for the Masses: Toub's Revenge

Many of you have been using the Custom Calendar Provider samples created by Stephen Toub and I:...

Date: 04/08/2008

CDOEXM CreateMailbox is leaking memory

I had a case recently where the customer had built an application to help manage their Active...

Date: 01/21/2008

MAPI_E_FAILONEPROVIDER (0x8004011d) after installing Windows Server 2003 SP2

Sorry for the duplication, I'm just rebranding an earlier post of mine because many people have...

Date: 01/11/2008

HELP: Outlook 2003 Doesn't Display my HTML Body

If you've developed a custom message store and you can't get Outlook to display RTF or HTML content,...

Date: 01/10/2008

Wish you could wear flip-flops to work?

Working at Microsoft is an experience like not many others. Since graduating from what many consider...

Date: 12/19/2007

Folder Homepage no longer works in Outlook 2007 from MAPI store providers

If you are developing or have developed a MAPI store provider for use in Outlook and are trying to...

Date: 12/19/2007

Free/Busy Appointments Missing After Using CDO 1.21 to Access Calendar

If you have written or use an application that uses CDO 1.21 (cdo.dll) that accesses your Calendar...

Date: 12/14/2007

Stehle's finally doing his OOM series

I've been encouraging him to blog his "Matt Stehle's Tenents of OOM Programming" for a while now,...

Date: 12/07/2007

Tell Us Why You're Still Using ECEs

We want to know why you're still using ECEs as opposed to an add-in. Please hop over to Stephen...

Date: 11/21/2007

Ooh, SNP

We've recently been seeing an elevated number of cases where networking issues are adversely...

Date: 10/16/2007

Exchange Server 2007 SDK July update is now available

Happy coding!...

Date: 07/27/2007

ARGH: Large WebDAV PROPPATCH requests fail with 401/401.5

I had a case recently where one of our products, Duet, was doing a large PROPPATCH against Exchange...

Date: 07/17/2007

YOUnique

Exchange as a development platform is a popular and intriguing notion and has led to several ISV's...

Date: 06/19/2007

Foreign Connectors aren't just bridges over the Rio Grande

Matt Stehle had a great post on building foreign connectors, the gateway connectors replacement for...

Date: 05/29/2007

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