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HOWTO: EWS: Get OOF State for Self or any user in your organization
First thing first, this is just for demonstration purpose and might *not* be a supported solution by Microsoft. The setting we are reading from are hidden messages and not documented anywhere. I had to...
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HOWTO: Automatically Login to OWA 2007 using HTML + JavaScript
First thing first, you should understand that this is NOT SUPPORTED & NOT RECOMMENDED solution by Microsoft.This is just a proof of concept that OWA 2007 can be auto login, if you know the username...
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Exchange Web Services 101 : Let’s get started!
Want to learn Exchange Web Service but not sure how and from where? Here are the few articles that I share very often with partners and customers who want to learn more about Exchange Web...
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Using CDOSYS from .Net?! Be Careful with Attachments!
First off there is no justification why you should be using Cdosys directly, you should use System.Web.Mail if you are still on .Net 1.1 otherwise you should upgrade to System.Net.Mail.Anyways, the...
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Hey!!! Do not forget to “Include” me… Ok?
I am not talking about some Friday night dinner or the latest buff around the corner. I am talking about the “Include” tab on Outlook 2007’s Ribbon UI.Recently I got this case where customer developed...
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3 years of same, yet different work and then a responsibility upgrade, a good...
It’s been 3 very long and cherished years of my life as I complete my 3 years of career at Microsoft India GTSC, based out of Bangalore, India.A Bachelor in Computer Sciences was just a degree I...
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BUG: Outlook: Word: A signature to death!
I have been working lately with this customer who was trying to create new signature files under %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Signatures folder which will be used by Outlook 2007 (SP2) but what we discovered is...
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BUG: Outlook 2003: Custom Forms: You cannot use Custom Actions to...
I had been working on this issue lately where customer was using Outlook 2003 to create custom actions. It is not very commonly used thing so you might not know about it, at least I was not very much...
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Blog Problem: Where are the images?
A very Happy New Year 2010 to you all.I had a really bad day while I was making some changes to my personal web hosting account with GoDaddy and accidentally canceled my web hosting account. With the...
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Did you like the makeover?
After couple of mails exchange with my earlier web hosting provider, I decided to save near 400 bucks for the images & other lots of junk data I had on my web hosting account. I decided to move my...
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BUG: .NET 4.0 (System.Net.Mail) Unable to send emails with large attachments...
This is probably the first bug reported by customer so far for System.Net.Mail Class in .NET 4.0 Framework, or at least the first one I worked on. This was pretty straight forward repro and I did not...
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WebDAV can expose private meetings/appointments to users who should not see...
This is quite frequently asked and with surprise & worries mixed together… Why WebDAV is able to see my Private meetings/appointments? Isn’t this a security breach? How can I get it fixed?The...
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We are Open, says PST to Outlook :-)
This is pretty exciting development which came yesterday as Microsoft announced the availability of two new open source projects to facilitate interoperability with Outlook PST files. Now start your...
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BUG: Outlook: Error thrown by Outlook 2007 when all attendees of a meeting...
THIS IS JUST FYI AND IF YOU ARE FACING THE SIMILAR ISSUE THEM PLEASE LET ME KNOW. WE ARE AWARE OF THIS ISSUE AND ALREADY WORKING ON A FIX FOR THE SAME.When using Outlook UI if a user tries to send a...
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Webcast: Enhancements in VSTO 4.0 Deployment for Office 2007/2010
One of my colleague, Akash, today presented this webcast where he talked about the enhancements in VSTO 4.0 Deployment for Office 2007/2010 using Visual Studio 2010. The session demonstrate how to use...
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FYI: MAPI Application does not work when running from Windows Service...
I recently had two cases where the MAPI application was failing while creating a dynamic profile calling IMsgServiceAdmin::ConfigureMsgService. Although if the same application is executed outside...
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HOTFIX: .NET 4.0 (System.Net.Mail) Unable to send emails with large...
We have an official release for the issue and if you are facing this problem then I would recommend you contacting PSS and refer to this...
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System.Net.Mail cannot send secured email using SMTP over SSL aka SMTPS protocol
This is just FYI that we know the limitation of System.Net.Mail classes and its incapability of sending secured emails over SSL / SMTPS.The SmtpClient class only supports the SMTP Service Extension for...
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Exchange 2010: OWA Customization: Preview forms does not works in...
I recently had couple of customer reporting that their existing/new OWA customization code is not working in Preview mode. You will notice the following error message displayed instead.."This type of...
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Exchange 2007: Transport error when sending emails using TLS (0x80040213)
Ok, this was a fun case and I never had such fun on a CDOSYS case & I am lying. I spent nearly all day in hunting down a Transport failure issue when sending emails using CDOSYS and Exchange 2007...
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