Glen's Exchange and Office 365 Dev Blog

The SyncIssues, Conflicts, LocalFailures and ServerFailures folders in a Mailbox are folders that "contain logs and items that Microsoft Outlook has been unable to synchronize with your Microsoft Exchange Server" which are described thoroughly in http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/synchronization-error-folders-HP001040042.aspx . From a operational perspective over a period of time these folders can fill up with items for a number of reasons or because of certain problems or third party products. So in this post I'm going to look at how you can use EWS to report and delete the content in these folders. Getting Access to the Folders There are two ways you could access these folders in EWS the first would be to do a conventional search for the displayname of the folder's using a FindFolder operation and a couple of Shallow traversals starting at the MsgFolderRoot. Or the other way which can deal with Localized foldernames and also reduces the number of o...

Following on from last week I’m going to put the Sync function I created into use and also show you how to create a contact in Powershell with a few lines of code using some wrappered EWS code I’ve put into my EWSUtil powershell library. I’ve also include some code to create a grouped list of contacst flagged with a custom property to allow full sync eg create if don’t exist create , delete if deleted from the syncfile and do property level changes if phone, address of name information is modified. I’ve used a csv file generated by doing an export in Outlook Express but this could be any csv file from any source. Before we can use this process we need to set the target folder to where the contacts will be imported to or where the contacts we are going to sync with are located. For a local users contact folder something like this is needed. $lcLocalContactFolderid = new-object EWSUtil.EWS.DistinguishedFolderIdType $lcLocalContactFolderid .Id = [EWSUtil.EWS.DistinguishedFolderIdN...