Glen's Exchange and Office 365 Dev Blog

One of my favorite development utilities is mfcMapi which along with OutlookSpy are invaluable utilities to use when doing any Exchange development. Along with mfcMapi Stephan also has a utility called mrMapi which provides console access to a number of useful MAPI functions . Last week he added a new feature to report on the files sizes and white-space inside a PST or OST based on the Header information in the file http://blogs.msdn.com/b/stephen_griffin/archive/2013/01/28/january-2013-release-of-mfcmapi-and-mrmapi.aspx . I thought this was a really useful thing as it can be a little bit confounding sometimes looking at PST files that have been produced by exporting a Mailbox and comparing that against the actual mailbox size. So I decided to put a script together that would get all the PST and OST file paths for default Outlook profile. Run those filepaths through mrMapi and parse console Output and the put together a HTML report of the information that ended up looking something l...

As time passes we all receive more and more email, this is one of the irrefutable facts of life for any mail system or anybody with a mailbox. Even the most fastidious of deleters still can't avoid this so at some point in the future you may need to consider achieving. The fact is your users maybe already self archiving using PST files which like self medicating can lead to serious problems down the track when their laptop goes under a bus. Exchange 2010 introduced native achieving and SP1 when its released will build on these capabilities, for other versions of exchange there are a bunch of other fine products you can look at to do this. If your looking to ingest PST's into an online archive you may want to first review what content your going to be importing and look at things like how many attachments and what type are they and how old is the content to give you a feel for what your going to be storing and potentially having to backup. What this boils down to is if you wan...