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Creating a Report of the WhiteSpace in all the PST's and OST in the default Outlook profile

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...
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