Glen's Exchange and Office 365 Dev Blog

***** If your running Exchange 2010 please see http://gsexdev.blogspot.com/2010/03/mailbox-size-gui-exchange-2010-remote.html ******** Okay time for a new version of the mailbox size gui the last version had a number of large bugs and the quota code looked like it had been written by a drunk squirrel. So this version firstly fixes the bugs in the quota code and the bugs with Deleted items sizes and adds some new functionality. The first addition is a drop down box that allows selection of which quota value you want to report on Eg exchange offers 3 quota levels Warning, Prohibit Send and Prohibit Send and Receive so the script will now allow reporting on which ever Quota usage you want to look at. This section still needs a little work to get better performance as it re-queries the server for mailbox sizes when you change the quota dropdown box instead of just reusing the current result. The second and most exciting feature is the mailbox size growth feature this is the biggest ch

I survived my hiking adventures and am back on deck to those people who sent me an email over the past couple of weeks sorry there are just too many and not enough time to answer then and the mark all read button kind of works really well so if it was important ping me again. Cheers Glen

Im off from a couple of weeks holidays should be back around the end of may. I've enabled comment moderation to stop the spammers while im away. May all your coding and scripting be happy :) Cheers Glen

The following is a script that demonstrates how to create a contact using a SOAP string and a simple web request. While this is not a very elegant solution as long as you have your SSL certs sorted out it should work okay. I was planning something a little cooler but time is really short at moment but this is still okay though. When creating a contact there are a few properties that you should set to get a fully working contact object. So the first part of the script is divided into required props which if you are using this in a pipeline you should always make sure you set. If you don’t you may find things like your contacts don’t appear properly when you try to use the contact in the Outlook Address book. The rest of the properties are optional which you can set if you have the information. This is not a complete list of contact properties that can be set within EWS just the majority of the most common ones for a full list please refer to the Exchange SDK. The big advantage if you