I wrote a sample application quite a while ago showing how to write a push notification client using WCF. This seemed a little complex to me, and I have now got another sample that uses the managed API and a…
Outlook: How to determine the owner of an item (including an item from a shared folder)
Outlook doesn’t have any built in methods to find the owner of an item. The question was asked if it is possible to find this information when the user is looking at an item in a shared folder. For example,…
MAPI Application: Create an Inbox rule to set the Sensitivity of messages with a specific message class to Private
We had a request for such an application from one of our customers so I though I would share the code with the community. The application creates a new Inbox rule in the default message store. The rule will be…
MAPI Application: Enable or disable Cached Mode in the default Outlook profile or specific profiles
I wrote this MAPI application for a customer the other day. The application uses the Outlook 2010 MAPI headers and some of the header files shipped with MFCMAPI. They are all included in the attached archive. You can run the…
PowerShell: Set Calendar folder delegate permissions in Exchange 2007
Exchange 2010 has cmdlets (Add-MailboxFolderPermission, Set-MailboxFolderPermission) that allow an administrator to update folder permissions on a user’s calendar. Unfortunately, Exchange 2007 does not have these cmdlets. We recently had a case that required updating many mailboxes (in this case resource…