Possibilità di sviluppo e integrazione con Exchange Online

Vi segnalo come nel post precedente un documento che tratta l’integrazione tra Exchange Online e applicativi sviluppati ad hoc.

“Microsoft Exchange Web Services is an application programming interface (API) that applications can use to access data store items on Exchange Server 2007. Third-party developers can use Exchange Web Services to communicate with Exchange Online, which is built on Exchange Server 2007.
It provides an extensibility point for clients that connect to Exchange Online and that consume information about user availability, and enables the manipulation of items that are located in the Exchange data store.

The Exchange Web Services interface is exposed as a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)-based Web service. This means that callers must send their requests to Exchange Web Services as SOAP XML messages that are contained in an HTTPS POST request. Exchange Web Services will respond with SOAP XML messages in the HTTPS response. Exchange Web Services is exposed with the Exchange Client Access server role through a Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Web service named Exchange.asmx.

Exchange Web Services provides a way for developers to interact with Exchange mailboxes in a manner compatible with Microsoft Office Outlook and Outlook Web Access (OWA). In fact, Outlook Web Access and Exchange Web Services use the same business logic layer as Exchange Web Services for accessing, creating, modifying, and deleting mailbox data.”

Download details: Exchange Online Developer Guide: https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=0ffa787d-79cd-43fd-b528-b47d45c7ea0d

Molto interessante anche il paragrafo che tratta l’integrazione con Azure, ovvero come sfruttare ulteriormente le potenzialità e la sinergia tra le piattaforme:

”Exchange Web Services can take advantage of the Windows Azure operating system. Windows Azure is a cloud services (Internet-based) operating system that serves as the development, service hosting, and service management environment for the Azure Services Platform. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage services to host, scale, and manage Web applications on the Internet through Microsoft data centers.”
In questo caso, a differenza del documento relativo a Sharepoint Online si tratta di un testo meno “pesante” (2 MB) e disponibile unicamente in inglese.