Query Exchange 2003 mailbox store (mailbox sizes etc)

[ChrisW (MCP)]

Hi Guys,

I'm using VB.NET 3.5 and would like to be able to query exchange 2003
servers from my application to find out pretty much as much information as
possible. The main goal is to find out mailbox sizes but any additional info
I can extract would be useful. I came accross a couple of articles that show
how to do this but they all use WMI... now I know you can use WMI within
VB.NET but I would really rather not use WMI at all as I find it to be quite
unreliable. I know people are probably going to say that its not unreliable
etc but I am just going on my own experiences, especially with XP machines
WMI just does not seem to work on half of them.

Any suggestions/ideas? Or is WMI my only option really?

Cheers
Chris

[a@tleederbyshired.0.tc.0.m Lee Derbyshire [MVP]]

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There's a WebDAV example here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms877932.aspx

Lee.

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[ChrisW (MCP)]

Cool thanks. Is WebDav a reliable method to use that will be available on ALL
exchange 2003 servers then? (assuming HTTP traffic is allowed internally to
the server). This application is intended not to be run on the exchange
server itself but on an IT administrators desktop.
Also, if I use WebDav is there anything I need to deploy with my app as a
dependency or will it work fine just with the .NET framework standard classes
as its just using web requests?

Thanks
Chris

[a@tleederbyshired.0.tc.0.m Lee Derbyshire [MVP]]

Any E2003 mailbox server will respond to WebDAV requests by default. You
can run your application on another computer, but the requests need to be
directed to the server that your mailbox is on.

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[David Stuart]

One option is to use WebDAV protocol. There is library I would recommend: http://www.independentsoft.de/webdavex

>> On Monday, January 26, 2009 9:17 AM Lee Derbyshire [MVP] wrote:

>> "ChrisW (MCP)" <Chri...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:C4F2EBDE-2AF7-4B80...@microsoft.com...
>>

>> There's a WebDAV example here:
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms877932.aspx
>>
>> Lee.
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>>> On Monday, January 26, 2009 9:51 AM ChrisWMC wrote:

>>> Cool thanks. Is WebDav a reliable method to use that will be available on ALL
>>> exchange 2003 servers then? (assuming HTTP traffic is allowed internally to
>>> the server). This application is intended not to be run on the exchange
>>> server itself but on an IT administrators desktop.
>>> Also, if I use WebDav is there anything I need to deploy with my app as a
>>> dependency or will it work fine just with the .NET framework standard classes
>>> as its just using web requests?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Chris
>>>
>>> "Lee Derbyshire [MVP]" wrote:

>>>> On Monday, January 26, 2009 10:01 AM Lee Derbyshire [MVP] wrote:

>>>> Any E2003 mailbox server will respond to WebDAV requests by default. You
>>>> can run your application on another computer, but the requests need to be
>>>> directed to the server that your mailbox is on.

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