Glen's Exchange and Office 365 Dev Blog

Back in February of this year Microsoft announced the retirement of Exchange UM services in favour of Cloud voicemail that has been around for a while. Both of these services use your Exchange mailbox to store voicemail messages while Exchange UM had some nicer UI elements for playing and previewing voicemail messages and some different features, cloud voicemail just comes as a message with a standard Mp3 attachment in the Mailbox. If your using Cloud voicemail with Microsoft teams you do get a play control like also the Cloud Voicemail service has an Audio transcription service which is reasonably accurate. Accessing Voice Mails programmatically Accessing these voice messages is pretty easy they are all just messages in your mailbox (usually the Inbox but they can have been moved to other folders) that have a MessageClass of IPM.Note.Microsoft.Voicemail.UM.CA ref https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/exchange_server_protocols/ms-oxoum/102b3a8b-1aad-4f29-90a3-998262d9fa2

One of the more interesting announcements from the recent Microsoft Build conference was the ability to get the MimeContent of Messages in the Microsoft Graph API  https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/blogs/mime-format-support-for-microsoft-graph-apis-preview/ . This is a much needed feature as it was something that a lot of people use in EWS application, it still comes with a few limitations the Graph has a 4GB underlying limit for REST  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/post-post-attachments?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=javascript and its export only at the moment so you can't import messages using it. One other thing is that its only in the Graph endpoint not the Outlook Rest endpoint so its not that easy to use from a Mail Add-in (without additional security config). One thing I do a bit when developing code for Exchange and Outlook is to look at the MimeContent of Messages as well as the MAPI properties using a MAPI editor like OutlookSpy of MFCMapi. This r

There has been a lot of information of late from security researchers and Microsoft themselves about Inbox rules being used to compromise workstations and for use in more pervasive security breaches. One of the more interesting one is is  https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/office365security/defending-against-rules-and-forms-injection/ Which has a pretty nice EWS script  https://github.com/OfficeDev/O365-InvestigationTooling/blob/master/Get-AllTenantRulesAndForms.ps1 for enumerating Rules, specifically they are looking for a Client side rule exploit so this script is enumerating all the Extended Rule Objects in the FAI collection of the Inbox. In Exchange you can have Server side rules which run regardless of the connection state of any client or Client only rules which only run when the client is connected for more information see https://support.office.com/en-us/article/server-side-vs-client-only-rules-e1847992-8aa1-4158-8e24-ad043decf1eb .  So what the above script does i