SGriffin's MAPI Internals
MAPI - Not dead yet
Welcome to the Outlook 2007 MAPI Reference
The Outlook 2007 MAPI Reference just went live on the MSDN. The docs are propagating their way...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 12/02/2008
I Did Read Your Message
On my article about enabling rules in the Wrapped PST, Richard pointed out that when you do this,...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 12/01/2008
November 2008 Release of MFCMAPI
The November 2008 Release (build 6.0.0.1010) is live: https://www.codeplex.com/MFCMAPI While we were...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 11/18/2008
When I Say Shutdown, I Mean Shut. Down.
Ryan posted an article about some changes we're making in Outlook 2007 SP2. The gist is we're...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 10/27/2008
Get The OOF Out Of Here
Dan asked if I could post some CDO sample code he was working on. This sample script demonstrates a...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 10/24/2008
October 2008 Release of MFCMAPI
The October 2008 Release (build 6.0.0.1009) is live: https://www.codeplex.com/MFCMAPIBetter late than...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 10/22/2008
Rewriting the From Address in Exchange 2007
So - we've got customers who had been using the Exchange 2007 Transport Agent's OnRoutedMessage...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 10/07/2008
Did I Send That?
[This is now documented here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff960604.aspx ] We had a...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 10/06/2008
Living Without OnSyncSave and OnSyncDelete
Matt has a blog post asking for customer feedback on the removal of OnSyncSave and OnSyncDelete from...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 09/30/2008
Feeling Conflicted?
This is from the "Not Everything I Know is Dev"-file. I'll put a developer spin on it though. We get...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 09/24/2008
Issues Loading ExMAPI32.dll Directly
In a previous article, I noted that you could load exmapi32.dll directly and bypass the MAPI Stub...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 09/19/2008
Sending an Outgoing Message Requesting a Read Receipt With MAPI
[This is now documented here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc979231.aspx ] This is the...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 09/03/2008
Creating a Recurring Task With MAPI
[This is now documented here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc963264.aspx ] This is the...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 08/29/2008
Pre Vista Fix MAPI Download No Longer Available
This is a follow up to Pre Vista Fix MAPI Download Still Available. As promised, we kept the old...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 08/28/2008
Creating a Recurring Appointment With MAPI
[This is now documented here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc963259.aspx ] This is the...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 08/28/2008
Exchange System Manager for Vista
We recently released a downloadable Exchange System Manager (ESM) for Exchange 2003 which can be...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 08/25/2008
Well Behaved Store Providers
The first answer I give to customers asking for tips on making their store provider work with the...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 08/15/2008
MAPI and IPv6
Duncan Smith noted recently that MAPI appears to have a problem with IPv6. He contacted me to see if...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 08/15/2008
Rebase That: Update to the Calendar Rebasing Library
We just released an update to our calendar rebasing library, Tzmovelib.dll. This update includes a...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 08/14/2008
August 2008 Release of MFCMAPI
The August 2008 Release (build 6.0.0.1008) is live: https://www.codeplex.com/MFCMAPII'm continuing to...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 08/07/2008
Understanding How You Use This Blog
Ed has asked if a few of us could help out with his survey by posting a link to it here. I'm happy...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 08/05/2008
Forcing Plain Text With MAPI
We had a customer recently who was sending mails with Outlook's MAPI. They wanted to know how to...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 08/04/2008
Pre Vista Fix MAPI Download Still Available
Sorry for not posting this sooner - I just found out about it today. As I noted previously, we...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 07/30/2008
So - You Want Forward Should Include the Body?
One of our customers reported that if they used IConverterSession::MIMEToMAPI to generate an MSG...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 07/22/2008
Team Blog...Sort Of
There's a bunch of us here that work in developer support for the Messaging APIs that actively blog....
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 07/16/2008
Getting a Referral From Exchange 2007
One of my customers reported that using the MAPI download, they were unable to get a referral from...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 07/14/2008
MAPI Download And the EnumProtocols Bug
The latest MAPI download has an interesting fix in it. Prior to this fix, if you used Exchange's...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 07/03/2008
Managing The Outlook Account Management Dialogs
[This is now documented here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff976789.aspx] We've decided...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 07/02/2008
Protocol Docs RTM
That's right - version 1.0 of the Exchange Server Protocol Documentation has been published in the...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 06/30/2008
MAPI And The Current Directory
In a comment on my post about the MAPI download working with Vista, JP pointed out that something in...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 06/24/2008
The Synchronization Shuffle
I've given this solution to a couple customers so far and it appears to be working for them, so I...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 06/20/2008
June 2008 Second Release of MFCMAPI
The June 2008 Second Release (build 6.0.0.1007) is live: https://www.codeplex.com/MFCMAPIYeah -...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 06/16/2008
MFCMAPI Does Contacts
Randy Byrne and I just published an article in the MSDN showing how to use the Exchange Server...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 06/11/2008
How To Break The MAPI Stub Library
Well, that didn't take long. We just released the latest MAPI download this weekend and yesterday we...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 06/03/2008
June 2008 Release of MFCMAPI
The June 2008 Release (build 6.0.0.1006) is live: https://www.codeplex.com/MFCMAPII've been digging...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 06/03/2008
This Just In: MAPI and Windows Server 2008 Now Get Along
The MAPI/CDO download package now works on Windows Server 2008 and Vista. The main blocker to...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 06/02/2008
The Future of Exchange's Developer APIs
Jason Henderson, the lead PM for Exchange Web Services, just put up a roadmap for the future of...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 05/22/2008
Exchange Open Protocol Docs Updated
I'm not going to drop a post every time these docs get refreshed, but I wanted to make it clear that...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 05/01/2008
Exchange Open Protocol Docs Are Live
In case you didn't see this on the Exchange Blog:Today, we posted the preliminary version of the...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 04/08/2008
You Can't Triple Stamp a Double Stamp
In the Exchange 2007 SDK, we have an antivirus sample application which really exists to illustrate...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 04/04/2008
April 2008 Release of MFCMAPI
The April 2008 Release (build 6.0.0.1005) is live: https://www.codeplex.com/MFCMAPIHere's the change...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 04/03/2008
New Restriction Types Seen In Wrapped PSTs
[This is now documented here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee201126(EXCHG.80).aspx ]...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 04/01/2008
Old School Entry IDs
Back when Outlook 2003 shipped, we were looking for ways to reduce the number of calls we made to...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 03/21/2008
Do You Feel Lucky? Multithreading the Profile API
I picked up a case a few weeks ago that had a simple question in it. "Are MAPI's profile APIs thread...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 03/07/2008
Recovery Storage Group: It's Not Just For ExMerge
If you're just looking to use MFCMAPI to get in to the RSG, head on over to Jesper Bernle's blog...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 02/05/2008
February 2008 Release of MFCMAPI
The February 2008 Release (build 6.0.0.1004) is live: https://www.codeplex.com/MFCMAPIHere's the...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 02/01/2008
Where Did I Put Those 5.5 SDK Docs?
Hey - look what I found on one of my old machines. It's the documentation from the Exchange 5.5 SDK...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 01/31/2008
New Outlook Docs
The January '08 refresh for the Outlook 2007 Auxiliary Reference is now live. In addition to a...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 01/30/2008
Outlook Rules - At Least When You Tell It To
[This is now documented here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff960239.aspx ]We just had a...
Author: Stephen Griffin - MSFT Date: 01/11/2008