Interacting with Exchange Server 2003?
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Hi all, My boss wants me to write a small console app that runs at midnight everynight. The app opens up a "job file" (in this case, the job file will have a list of training days that people will be attending), connects to the exchange server (via the admin login?), opens that users calender and inserts that training day into his/her calender. If the user deletes the appointment, the app will create it again.... the only trouble im having is connecting to the exchange server at the "top level" as an admin so i can open a users calender and create/modify their appointments... Does anyone have any suggestions / controls i can purchase that will help me build this app? Many thanks, Will
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Hi all, My boss wants me to write a small console app that runs at midnight everynight. The app opens up a "job file" (in this case, the job file will have a list of training days that people will be attending), connects to the exchange server (via the admin login?), opens that users calender and inserts that training day into his/her calender. If the user deletes the appointment, the app will create it again.... the only trouble im having is connecting to the exchange server at the "top level" as an admin so i can open a users calender and create/modify their appointments... Does anyone have any suggestions / controls i can purchase that will help me build this app? Many thanks, Will
here is a question for you, at the moment how are you interacting with the Exchange server programmatically ? Are you using the IMAP protocol to access the exchange server. With regards to purchasing controls, you dont have to. If you use .NET 3.0- 3.5, WCF has web services that can interact with Exchange Server 2003 and 2007. The other thing you can do if you dont want to use the new framework and still use .NET 2.0 then use the Lumisoft DLL. Here is the link http://www.lumisoft.ee/lswww/ENG/Products/Mail\_Server/mail\_index\_eng.aspx?type=download With regards to logging in, my recommendation would see if you can TELNET into the Exchange Server and excute an IMAP login process using the administrator username and password. You will need to google about using TELENT IMAP calls to Exchange Server. I have used the lumisoft DLL successfully to build an application that interacted with Exchange 2003. So if you need more help then feel free to post more questions.