Glen's Exchange and Office 365 Dev Blog

A number of years ago i posted some scripts to create RSS feeds from public folders and calendar folders using Exchange event sinks and some pretty simple VBS. These scripts where pretty simple and worked pretty well and I've still got some running today. On Exchange 2007 development technologies have moved on and so its time to move these scripts along as well. The big advantage is that with Powershell, .NET 2.0 and Exchange Web Services the flexibility or what you can do and therefore what you can then leverage with the newer advances in the .NET framework offer you a pretty nice sandpit to play in. The reality of this increase in flexibility is unfortunately an increase also in the complexity meaning that this reasonably simple VBS script becomes a little more complicated and while its possible to put together a script using SOAP strings it can be a pain to make this reusable and reliable in wide number of scenarios. To make this easier i've included the EWS routine's ...

I’m having a bit of a RSS feed week this week here’s another interesting one. A while ago I created this RSS event sink for a public folder that would generate a feed whenever a new item was posted in a Public Folder. This is useful but over a large number of folders having a separate feed for every folder is a pain and usually it’s a matter of getting across the new information that’s been added to a possible large number of folders that’s important. So what I’ve come up with is a script that will scan though every folder in the public folder tree on a server and then create a feed that has a post for each new item in each public folder within the whole public folder tree (where theres are replica available). The one problem with this script is it doesn’t really respect permissions so if you have folders that have information in them that is supposed to be restricted you might want to include some if statements so these folders are skipped. This script use WebDAV to query each p...