I'm doing some exchange web services development.
As part of the app, I'm creating a hidden folder in the user's exchange mailbox. I remember reading somewhere that there is a tool that lets you browse all your exchange folders... kind of like outlook, but more dev-focused.
I can't seem to google the answer. Can anyone point me to it?
Thanks,
Peter
Funny how asking a question gets you to google the right answer:
Here's the tool - MFC Mapi
Related
I have an outlook addin that runs on REST-APIs. I want to migrate it to GRAPH and I am currently exploring the possibility of using the MSAL-browser library to get the GRAPH access tokens. I am currently using this as reference. This was mentioned in this stack-overflow item
I find the 'Single Page Application' solution straight forward, not requiring much interaction with the addin host server. I intend to use its authRedirect flow.
Although I have my own opinions/conclusions, I would like to ask some expert thoughts on the following :
Does MSAL-browser library work for all platforms now? (i.e. Windows Outlook client, IPhone/Android Outlook client, MAC-Outlook client and browser-OWA outlook)
Is it safe to use MSAL-browser for an outlook addin?
If it is not safe, what other alternative is there that does not require much interaction with the addin server?
Thank you very much for all your answers.
We are actively working on MSAL library and currently it is not supported in OWA. As an alternative you can use ADAL library
Can anyone point me to an example of an Outlook Contact custom sync provider for the Microsoft Sync Framework? I would like to use that Framework to build a bidirectional sync between my CRM and Outlook. I've found a reference to this SO question: Sync Microsoft Outlook with my own data
Unfortunately, the link to MSDN example is no longer valid. It simply redirects to the MSDN sample gallery which has no such sample.
Any help would be much appreciated.
I am very curious to what the link was to, as well. I have not found anything short of either a "Wrapped PST Store" or "Custom MAPI Store" or "Custom MAPI Transport Provider". MAPI itself provides a synchronization process, but it is not designed to be used from managed code and is very complicated.
The best "roundup" I have found is the Outlook MAPI Samples on codeplex. These do not deal with any pretty "Sync Framework" though; presumably that is used as the back-end? (Most samples neglect how to get to the back-end processing.)
We are evaluating an entirely managed in-Addin synchronization process here to avoid having to deal with the complications of MAPI, but the viability is still not entirely known. (This approach also introduces different problems and limitations.)
Good luck and happy coding.
Is there any message forum/board software (open source or commercial) that allows one to post a question from MS Outlook? I read Kubi Software Inc had this feature. However, a google search for their website seems like the company is no more.
Thanks,
The functionality of exchange folders is similar. Try that.
This is not a perfect answer, obviously, but I'll suggest you reading more about Google Groups, that acts, for some specific cases, as a forum software:
http://www.forum-software.org/google-groups/review
I am looking at doing some serious MS Outlook extensibility, going beyond the concept of e-mail, but still in the realm of messaging.
As such, I will need to be able to make Outlook aware of a new 'Account Type' (i.e., it currently only understands POP, Exchange, etc).
Can anyone point me to an area of the API that may facilitate this functionality, if it exists...?
Thanks
Adam,
reading your question about having a new provider you would have to look at creating a new Mapi provider. This is a pretty complicated area a place to start would be MSDN
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc979221.aspx also look for the pdf book "Inside mapi" on the internet
There may be other ways to look at the problem though using Addins for outlook that would extend the UI using panes and form regions etc. or and older technique is to use subclassing and hooking.
Marcus
both Outlook and Thunderbird are able to find contacts in a LDAP server, but none of them are able to modify contacts data.
Is there a plug-in or anything else to allow such thing?
Regards, Cédric
I don't know of any. But this guy seems to have managed doing it with VBScript which with some further work you should be able to nicely integrate into Outlook
Add/Modify/Delete Exchange Contact with VBScript
Yes, you can't, even nowadays - late 2011 (TB is not supporting it, and also Outlook 2007). Anyhow, some mail clients are allowing this, in example Evolution.
I have not tested Outlook 2010, but i feel this is the same.
To check: if you can modify an ActiveDirectory directory. AD is LDAP, although the schema is specific to microsoft.