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tt · Guest

I would like to create a c# service that will create public folders, assign
client permissions and set inheritence.
I don't like to use outlook. I know that I can use MAPI, ADSI, CDO but I
don't know what will be the best for me.

My questions?
What technologies I need to use?
Where must be localized my component (exchange server or anywhere)?

Thanks for help!
Slawek

Glen Scales [MVP] · Guest

Depending on which API you decided to go with your code can run remotely or
may need to run it locally on the Exchange server

Locally you can use CDOEX/ADO/Exoledb to create public folders and you can
set permissions via the
http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/security/descriptor property. You
might want to look at using the Application security module from the
Exchange SDK which makes this process a little easier.

If you want to run you code remotely you can look at use CDO 1.2 and ACL.dll
to do this have a look at
http://blogs.officezealot.com/legault/archive/2004/03/16/216.aspx . The main
problem here is that MAPI is not really supported in C# although it will
usually work okay. The last option in you want to run remotely is to use
WebDAV if you look in the Exchange SDK there are samples of creating public
folders if you want to set permissions via WebDAV this can be done via the
http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/security/descriptor property. Have a
look at the pfdavadmin utility from Microsoft which uses WebDAV to do these
type of thing including things like setting replicas etc.

You won't really need to use ADSI for anything except if you want to mail
enable the folder your creating the only supported way to mail-enable an
object programmatically is to use CDOEXM see
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wss/wss/_cdo_imailrecipient_mailenable.asp.
For this you need to have the Exchange Admin tools installed on the machine
you want to run the code on.

Cheers
Glen

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