Messaging Developer Dilemmas
Insights into the latest in the Outlook/Exchange Developer World to help you/us resolve frustrations!
How To (and how not to) access Custom Attributes using GetExchangeUser
The content of this blog stands true as of 13th of June, 2012. The behavior described towards...
Author: Dhruv Khattar Date: 06/12/2012
CreateItemFromTemplate()… Importing MSG’s… Where did my UserProperties go?
A known behavior of Outlook and the Object Model (documented in this KB) is that if you...
Author: Dhruv Khattar Date: 05/15/2012
Outlook Ribbon woes on performing “Send As E-Mail” via other Office 2010 Apps
When we introduced ribbons in various Office applications with Office 2007 (and...
Author: Dhruv Khattar Date: 05/14/2012
Automating execution of built-in Exchange 2010 PS1 Scripts through .NET
Through the magic of Powershell automation that was introduced for Exchange Management, it so...
Author: Dhruv Khattar Date: 05/08/2012
The Double-Hop Dogma
If you find yourself wondering why your robustly developed, uber-comprehensive ASP.NET application,...
Author: Dhruv Khattar Date: 04/15/2012
Breaking your ahead against Outlook URL’s post Outlook 2003?
So back in 2003, when we introduced the world to Outlook 2003, there was a nifty feature that...
Author: Dhruv Khattar Date: 04/12/2012
Working with Tasks using Exchange Web Services
An integral part of Outlook from its very initial version, Outlook Tasks were always intended...
Author: Dhruv Khattar Date: 04/06/2012
The request failed schema validation… But why?
If you’re particularly proud of your (XML) writing skills or happen to be one of the adventurous...
Author: Dhruv Khattar Date: 10/18/2011
Impersonation in the times of RBAC
So your organization migrated to Exchange Server 2010, and you thought you’d take that...
Author: Dhruv Khattar Date: 10/18/2011
The Curious Case of the Persistent EmailAddress1
There's a rather puzzling issue that many developers creating their own jazzy EWS customizations...
Author: Dhruv Khattar Date: 09/09/2011
Upgraded your VSTO 2010 Runtime? The Manifest Registry needs an upgrade too!
A few months ago (okay, SEVERAL months ago), around the time of March, we started pushing out an...
Author: Dhruv Khattar Date: 08/09/2011