On November 7th and 8th 2005, we will be holding a Developer Conference on campus in Redmond WA that is targeted to our key Exchange ISV and Developer communities.  The conference will provide selected ISVs with an early look at the “E12” investment Read More

In Exchange 12 (“E12”), we have focused our public API story on: Web Services for accessing information stored on the server Managed Agents for processing mail flowing through the server Windows Scripting Shell (Monad) “cmdlets” for managing the Read More

I’ve worked for Microsoft for about 8 years, all in the Exchange group, and I really enjoy it.  The people who work here are bright, self-motivated, and we have the resources we need to get our jobs done.  It feels great to ship world-class Read More

When diagnosing problems with Exchange, particularly Exchange clients like outlook, or API consumers like server applications, it is common to encounter confusion about which components are actually doing the work for any particular operation.  It's Read More

This post provides a brief explanation of how the body of a message (HTML in particular) is handled by the different versions of Outlook (Outlook 97, Outlook 98, Outlook 2000, Outlook XP and Outlook 2003) and Exchange (Exchange 5.5, Exchange 2000, and Read More

Once you’ve got the new edkmdb.h, you can take advantage of some new interfaces we’ve introduced: IExchangeManageStore3 and IExchangeManageStore4. First, some background.   IExchangeManageStore is a useful interface for managing an Exchange server Read More

A primary use for MFCMAPI is to look at objects in an Exchange store and view the MAPI properties on them. MAPI properties are identified by property tags which are 32 bit numbers, like 0x0FFF0102. It’s no fun to have to memorize a bunch of 32 bit numbers Read More

iCal, or internet calendaring, generally isn't heavily used or widely understood. When it is used, it generally creates some confusion since it produces different results based on what server and clients are used. Rather than babble on about all the RFC Read More

To browse the Exchange SDK documentation online visit the Exchange Developer Center, at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/exchange To download the SDKs and tools visit the Exchange downloads list page at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/downloads/list/exchange.asp Read More

Microsoft and the Exchange team are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the June 2004 editions of the Software Development Kits for Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003. The following are now available: - Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 SDK Read More

Summary: This document provides developers an overview of how to write event sinks for SMTP and Transport events in managed code using wrappers that obscure some of the details of communicating with the unmanaged server. Introduction Writing event sinks Read More

When Exchange 2000 was released one of the goals was to allow third-party developers to write custom applications that they could use to automate mailing, CDO for Exchange was build into Exchange 2000, and CDOSYS was distributed with Windows.  These Read More

Last night I uploaded a 1.1.0 test release of the Quota Message Service to http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/quotamsgsvc. This is the first release to include a true installer.  During setup, the installer asks for the primary SMTP address of Read More

I am sure many of you have at one time or another wanted to do a Deep Traversal (subfolder) Search on the MAPI Public Folder Tree.  However, as many of you probably know, Exchange does not allow for Deep Traversal (subfolder) Searches on the MAPI Read More

If you’re a proud Smartphone owner, you might have noticed that the ‘Office Location’ field doesn’t get synched onto the device when it’s part of your Contact entries. For some, maybe not a big deal, but in the Microsoft Read More