Glen's Exchange and Office 365 Dev Blog

Within most Exchange Orgs there are multiple levels of SPAM and junk email filtering that may include Cloud based first level filtering like Postini and Forefront and then other server based filters like those standard AS features that come with the Transport Server role with Exchange 2010. At the client level if you have the Outlook 200x junk email filter enabled it will also be providing another level of Junk Email filtering.  The one difference being that while the cloud and server based solutions filter email while it is in the Transport Pipeline the client based filter will only filter it once it has arrived in a Mailbox folder and it can also filter content such as RSS feeds that don't come via the transport mechanism. Although inevitably the Junk Email ends up in the Junk Email folder when the client  side filter takes action on an Item it adds some extra Extended properties that can be used from a reporting perspective. The most interesting is PidLidSpamOriginalFol...

This is part 2 of a 2 part post of a few scripts to assign different colored categories to messages based on the type of attachments a message has. See the first post for information on how modify the Outlook 2007 categories’ This script handles enumerating the existing messages within a mailbox and then assigning categories (or keywords) based on the attachment types on the message. When I used this script I did every message in my mailbox which worked okay but because I was using Outlook in Cache Mode updating a lot a messages this way caused a major re-syncing or the cache (e.g. it seemed to pull down every message again that was updated with an attachment which can consume a lot of bandwidth if you have a large mailbox with large attachments). While this may be okay for some people this could cause some havoc in some networks so with this script I put a filter value so it will only update the messages that are less then 1 month old in the inbox. This could still be a conside...

This is a two part post that I thought I’d separate this idea came from someone who asked about how you could group messages by their attachment types. Normally this would be a pretty hard thing to achieve manly because of the way attachments are stored doesn’t lend itself well to being grouped by in a search folder or an Outlook Customize view. But this got me thinking about what if you could use the new colored category feature in Outlook 2007 instead. Eg for each attachment type you have a separate color and Label. This works out pretty cool because you go from being able to look at your email and seeing that there is an attachment eg the paper clip icon to being able to look at a message and if you see a blue category mark you know that message has got an attachment and it’s a word document if it’s a green mark you know it’s a Excel document. You can then also create Views or Search folders based on the attachment categorization you could also could create an event sink or Notif...