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Creating a Report of Meeting Organizers for all appointments in all calendars on a Server via WebDAV

Euricelia Wanderley created the following script to do some reporting on User's meeting that fell withing the affected US DST period .Euricelia script uses some webDAV to do a expansion query of all calendar appointments in the affected period and then produces a csv of the results. The script uses a few cool tricks like parsing out the organizer of the meeting from the vcalendar stream of the appointment. I've taken this idea a little further and put together a version of the same type of thing that designed to send the user a HTML summary email that shows them all the appointments within the affected period im still working on this at the moment having a few issues linking to Exceptions of recurring appointments should kick it tommorow.

I've put a downloadable copy of Euricelia script here the script itself looks like

on error resume next
servername = "SERVERNAME"
public username
public password
username = "USERNAME"
password = "PASSWORD"
public datefrom
public dateto
datefrom = "2007-03-11T00:00:00Z"
dateto = "2007-04-01T00:00:00Z"

set shell = createobject("wscript.shell")
set conn1 = createobject("ADODB.Connection")
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
fname = "c:\support\scripts\" & servername & ".csv"
set wfile = fso.opentextfile(fname,2,true)
wfile.writeline("Meeting,Organizer")

set conn = createobject("ADODB.Connection")
set com = createobject("ADODB.Command")
Set iAdRootDSE = GetObject("LDAP://RootDSE")
strNameingContext = iAdRootDSE.Get("configurationNamingContext")
strDefaultNamingContext = iAdRootDSE.Get("defaultNamingContext")
Conn.Provider = "ADsDSOObject"
Conn.Open "ADs Provider"
svcQuery = "<LDAP://" & strNameingContext &amp;amp;amp;amp; ">;(&(objectCategory=msExchExchangeServer)(cn="
& Servername & "));cn,name,legacyExchangeDN;subtree"
Com.ActiveConnection = Conn
Com.CommandText = svcQuery
Set Rs = Com.Execute
while not rs.eof
GALQueryFilter = "(&(&(&(&(mailnickname=*)(!msExchHideFromAddressLists=TRUE)((&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(msExchHomeServerName="
&rs.fields("legacyExchangeDN") &amp;amp;amp;amp; ")) )))))"
strQuery = "<LDAP://" & strDefaultNamingContext &amp;amp;amp;amp; ">;" & GALQueryFilter & ";distinguishedName,mail,displayname,mailnickname;subtree"
com.Properties("Page Size") = 100
Com.CommandText = strQuery
Set Rs1 = Com.Execute
while not Rs1.eof
wscript.echo "User: " & rs1.fields("displayname")
user = rs1.fields("mail")
call QueryAttendees(servername,user)
rs1.movenext
wend
rs.movenext
wend
rs.close
set conn = nothing
set com = nothing
wscript.echo "Done"


Public Sub QueryAttendees(server,mailbox)

On Error Resume Next

strURL = "http://" & server & "/exchange/" & mailbox & "/calendar/"
strQuery = "<?xml version=""1.0""?><D:searchrequest xmlns:D = ""DAV:"" >"
strQuery = strQuery & "<D:sql>SELECT DISTINCT ""DAV:href"" FROM scope('shallow
traversal of """ & strURL &amp;amp;amp;amp; """') "
strQuery = strQuery & " Where ""DAV:isfolder"" = false AND ""DAV:ishidden"" =
false AND ""urn:schemas:calendar:alldayevent"" = false "
strQuery = strQuery & "AND ""DAV:contentclass"" =
'urn:content-classes:appointment' "
strQuery = strQuery & "AND ""urn:schemas:calendar:dtend"" &amp;amp;amp;gt; CAST(""" &
datefrom & """ as 'dateTime.tz') "
strQuery = strQuery &amp; "AND ""urn:schemas:calendar:dtstart"" &lt; CAST(""" &
dateto & """ as 'dateTime.tz') "
strQuery = strQuery &amp; "</D:sql></D:searchrequest>"


wscript.echo strQuery
set req = createobject("microsoft.xmlhttp")
req.open "SEARCH", strURL, false, username, password

If Err.Number <> 0 Then
WScript.Echo "Error Opening Search"
WScript.Echo Err.Number & ": " & Err.Description
End If

req.setrequestheader "Content-Type", "text/xml"
req.setRequestHeader "Translate","f"
req.setRequestHeader "Depth", "1,noroot"
req.send strQuery

If Err.Number <> 0 Then
WScript.Echo "Error Sending Query"
WScript.Echo Err.Number & ": " & Err.Description
End If

wscript.echo req.status
wscript.echo "response" & req.responseXML

If req.status >= 500 Then
wscript.echo "Status: " & req.status
wscript.echo "Status text: An error occurred on the server."
ElseIf req.status = 207 Then
set oResponseDoc = req.responseXML
set oNodeList = oResponseDoc.getElementsByTagName("a:href")
For i = 0 To (oNodeList.length -2)
set oNode = oNodeList.nextNode
proccalmess(oNode.Text)
Next
Else
wscript.echo "Status: " & req.status
wscript.echo "Status text: " & req.statustext
wscript.echo "Response text: " & req.responsetext
End If

End Sub

public sub proccalmess(objhref)

set req = createobject("microsoft.xmlhttp")
wscript.echo objhref
wfile.write(objhref & ",")
On Error Resume Next
Req.open "GET", objhref, false,username, password
If Err.Number <> 0 Then
WScript.Echo "Error Opening GET"
WScript.Echo Err.Number & ": " & Err.Description
End If

Req.setRequestHeader "Translate","f"
Req.send

attendeearry = split(req.responsetext,"ORGANIZER;",-1,1)
for i = 1 to ubound(attendeearry)
string1 = vbcrlf & " "
stparse = replace(attendeearry(i),string1,"")
attaddress = mid(stparse,(instr(stparse,"MAILTO:")+7),instr(stparse,chr(13)))
attaddress = mid(attaddress,1,instr(attaddress,vbcrlf))
wscript.echo attaddress
wfile.writeline(attaddress)
next

end sub
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