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April 2017 Release of MFCMAPI and MrMAPI
The April 2017 Release (build 17.0.17099.01) is live:...
Date: 04/10/2017
March 2017 Release of MFCMAPI and MrMAPI
The March 2017 Release (build 17.0.17069.01) is live: https://mfcmapi.codeplex.com. I apologize for...
Date: 03/14/2017
February 2017 Release of MFCMAPI and MrMAPI
The February 2017 Release (build 17.0.17033.02) is live: https://mfcmapi.codeplex.com. In our last...
Date: 02/02/2017
October 2016 Release of MFCMAPI and MrMAPI
The October 2016 Release (build 16.0.16292.01) is live: https://mfcmapi.codeplex.com. So – I managed...
Date: 10/18/2016
September 2015 Release of MFCMAPI and MrMAPI
The September 2015 Release (build 15.0.0.1043) is live: https://mfcmapi.codeplex.com.It’s...
Date: 09/02/2015
ProfileProp – Examine Profile Properties
I’ve had some requests lately to write a MAPI sample that shows how to access profile...
Date: 07/18/2015
August 2014 Release of MFCMAPI and MrMAPI
The August 2014 Release (build 15.0.0.1042) is live: https://mfcmapi.codeplex.com.It’s been a...
Date: 08/13/2014
Message Header Analyzer’s Manifest
For those of you who know what to do with this, here’s the manifest for Message Header...
Date: 05/09/2014
Automated Dump Collection Using Procdump
I thought I’d share a script I’ve been using on some recent cases to generate memory dump files on...
Date: 05/05/2014
Outlook 2013 Click To Run and COM Interfaces
In this article I’ll go over the current state of Outlook 2013 Click To Run (C2R)and support...
Date: 04/21/2014
MAPICDO March 2014 Release
It’s time for what is most likely the last release of the MAPICDO download. Here are the...
Date: 03/04/2014
February 2014 Release of MFCMAPI and MrMAPI
The February 2014 Release (build 15.0.0.1041) is live: https://mfcmapi.codeplex.com.The past...
Date: 02/14/2014
Prefix Searching the PST
Here’s a neat trick: Load a PST into Outlook and pick a folder with some messages in it Go to...
Date: 01/24/2014
Custom Icons and Table View
A couple of customers recently reported this interesting issue with Outlook views and custom form...
Date: 01/13/2014
Wrapped PST and Indexing
One of the things we’ve seen with Outlook 2013 is that Wrapped PSTs that never used to be...
Date: 12/31/2013
December 2013 Release of MFCMAPI and MrMAPI
The December 2013 Release (build 15.0.0.1040) is live: https://mfcmapi.codeplex.com. It’s been a...
Date: 12/30/2013
Indexed Search With MAPI and Exchange
In Outlook 2013, we took a change to improve how we build search folders when searching against...
Date: 11/08/2013
MAPI Provider Sorting
Outlook likes to sort folders alphabetically. When Outlook 2010 came out, some of our custom store...
Date: 11/08/2013
Help Us Track Down A Missing Property
Some of you may have seen this:https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2849083The title of the KB is...
Date: 10/04/2013
Mail Apps and OAuth (AKA “Your Mail App is Busted”)
Jens has a really good post over on his blog about an issue he faced trying to configure OAuth...
Date: 10/01/2013
MAPI and Exchange 2013 Public Folders
Prior to Exchange 2013, when Outlook’s emsmdb32 provider would log on to the server, it would get...
Date: 08/14/2013
Using MAPI In An Installer
If you have an installer which uses MAPI, specifically, which calls MAPIInitialize, you should be...
Date: 08/08/2013
Exchange 2013 OWA URLs
If you dig around in the EWS documentation, you’ll find this element:...
Date: 05/30/2013
Creating Exchange 2013 Profiles Using MFCMAPI
Now that MAPICDO has been updated to support connecting to Exchange 2013 using RPC/HTTP, and the...
Date: 05/29/2013
MAPICDO May 2013 Update
It;’s here! It’s finally here! The May 2013 update of MAPICDO is live...
Date: 05/20/2013
Outlook and the Credential Manager
Recently, I’ve had a few different customers coming to me asking about Outlook’s...
Date: 05/17/2013
Message Header Analyzer Hits the Big Time
Anybody remember that Message Header Analyzer App for Office I wrote about last month? Well, the...
Date: 05/02/2013
March 2013 Second Release of MFCMAPI and MrMAPI
The March 2013 Second Release (build 15.0.0.1039) is live: https://mfcmapi.codeplex.com.This is an...
Date: 04/02/2013
March 2013 Release of MFCMAPI and MrMAPI
The March 2013 Release (build 15.0.0.1038) is live: https://mfcmapi.codeplex.com.A few smaller...
Date: 03/27/2013
Developing Apps For Office
So – I’ve been playing a lot with Apps for Office lately. I even wrote and published an app:...
Date: 03/21/2013
Exchange 2013 Compatible MAPICDO
As several of you have noted, we recently released an update for the MAPICDO package. This is the...
Date: 02/28/2013
Exchange 2013 Recipient Properties On Sent Items
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee159108(v=exchg.80).aspxIf you’ve got an application...
Date: 02/19/2013
Custom Providers and Outlook 2013
Some of you may have already noticed this by now, but the logic used to load MAPI providers has...
Date: 01/29/2013
January 2013 Release of MFCMAPI and MrMAPI
The January 2013 Release (build 15.0.0.1037) is live: https://mfcmapi.codeplex.com. We’ve been...
Date: 01/28/2013
Wrapped PST Sample Updated for Outlook 2013
I’ve just checked in a fix for the Wrapped PST sample that should allow it to work with...
Date: 12/19/2012
When to Build a Mail App
Here’s a nice article on choosing between mail apps and add-ins for Outlook...
Date: 12/18/2012
Parsing the POP3 UIDL History
In my previous post, we discussed how to locate Outlook’s POP3 UIDL history. Now that we have the...
Date: 12/04/2012
Locating the POP3 UIDL History
When Outlook’s POP3 provider syncs with a POP3 mailbox and the user chooses to leave a copy of the...
Date: 12/03/2012
MAPICDO and Exchange Server 2013 (Update)
I’ve just been given permission to announce we’re targeting the release of the updated...
Date: 11/08/2012
October 2012 Release of MFCMAPI and MrMAPI
The (very late) October 2012 Release (build 15.0.0.1036) is live: https://mfcmapi.codeplex.com.As...
Date: 11/07/2012
MAPICDO and Exchange Server 2013
I’ve just been given clearance to publicize this since apparently it was discussed at MEC: The...
Date: 10/08/2012
MAPICDO, Distribution Lists, and Exchange 2010
One of the lesser known tricks in MAPI is that when you open a distribution list (MAPI_DISTLIST)...
Date: 09/10/2012
August 2012 Release of MFCMAPI and MrMAPI
The August 2012 Release (build 15.0.0.1035) is live: https://mfcmapi.codeplex.com. In honor of the...
Date: 08/21/2012
Putting a Path in MAPISVC.INF
As you know, when you install a new provider on a system, you have to update MAPISVC.INF to point it...
Date: 08/15/2012
The Wrapped PST and Unicode Paths
A customer just raised this issue with our Wrapped PST provider sample. They were trying to retrofit...
Date: 08/06/2012
SetReceiveFolder and Cached Mode
We recently resolved a case here where a customer, as part of their larger application, was using...
Date: 06/22/2012
June 2012 Release of MFCMAPI and MrMAPI
The June 2012 Release (build 15.0.0.1034) is live: https://mfcmapi.codeplex.com.This month we ship...
Date: 06/19/2012
Missing Replication State Machine Constant
On this page, talking about the Upload Folder State, we have a note which references the constant...
Date: 05/02/2012