Hello, I have a question regarding how webDAV accesses the Exchange store. Does it go directly to the mailbox, or does it go through the Hub Transport? We are doing an Exchange calendar integration for our application, and it is important that our method of accessing Exchange does not bypass the archiving functionality. Additionally, we have chosen WebDAV as our method of integration because it is backwards compatible with older versions of Exchange. What would be the advantages of using the Web Services or .Net Extensions to synchronize with exchange appointments? Thanks for any help, Glenn Thimmes
Hello Glen, WebDAV uses MAPI internally. It won't go around your archiving solution. But for Exchange 2007 I would probably go the WebServices road (Since WebDAV is practially dead). It's a cleaner approach since you can access all the Outlook fields directly and strongly-typed. Which is not the case with WebDAV. It can be somewhat tricky because some outlook fields map to two or more other fields. Kind regards, Henning Krause "Glenn Thimmes" wrote in message news:646BC91D-D625-45F4-98AE-62473B65DBB2@microsoft.com... > Hello, > > I have a question regarding how webDAV accesses the Exchange store. Does > it > go directly to the mailbox, or does it go through the Hub Transport? > > We are doing an Exchange calendar integration for our application, and it > is > important that our method of accessing Exchange does not bypass the > archiving functionality. > > Additionally, we have chosen WebDAV as our method of integration because > it > is backwards compatible with older versions of Exchange. What would be the > advantages of using the Web Services or .Net Extensions to synchronize > with > exchange appointments? > > Thanks for any help, > > Glenn Thimmes >
Thanks for the response. This answers my question. The reason why it is necessary for me to go down the WebDAV road is backwards compatibility of this integration module. We have customers going back as far as Exchange XP. We've got to give them a little longer before we can say we only support 2007 for calendar synchronization. Thanks, Glenn Thimmes "Henning Krause [MVP - Exchange]" wrote: > Hello Glen, > > WebDAV uses MAPI internally. It won't go around your archiving solution. > > But for Exchange 2007 I would probably go the WebServices road (Since WebDAV > is practially dead). It's a cleaner approach since you can access all the > Outlook fields directly and strongly-typed. Which is not the case with > WebDAV. It can be somewhat tricky because some outlook fields map to two or > more other fields. > > Kind regards, > Henning Krause > > "Glenn Thimmes" wrote in message > news:646BC91D-D625-45F4-98AE-62473B65DBB2@microsoft.com... > > Hello, > > > > I have a question regarding how webDAV accesses the Exchange store. Does > > it > > go directly to the mailbox, or does it go through the Hub Transport? > > > > We are doing an Exchange calendar integration for our application, and it > > is > > important that our method of accessing Exchange does not bypass the > > archiving functionality. > > > > Additionally, we have chosen WebDAV as our method of integration because > > it > > is backwards compatible with older versions of Exchange. What would be the > > advantages of using the Web Services or .Net Extensions to synchronize > > with > > exchange appointments? > > > > Thanks for any help, > > > > Glenn Thimmes > > > >
Henning, Is there a good link that explains how to use web services instead of WebDAV? If I use web services, will I need to install anything special on my Exchange 2007servers? Or is web services automatically enabled for Exchange 2007+ servers?
Hello, WebServices are always enabled on Exchang 2007. Kind regards, Henning Krause "Frank" wrote in message news:3ADA5B8D-3F83-4174-9BA5-6277F9F634AE@microsoft.com... > Henning, > > Is there a good link that explains how to use web services instead of > WebDAV? > > If I use web services, will I need to install anything special on my > Exchange 2007servers? Or is web services automatically enabled for > Exchange > 2007+ servers? >
