Directly opening known Exchange item (w/o searching it)

[Patrick A. Lorenz]

Hi guys!

I'm currently developing some Exchange solutions which require beside others
to open an Exchange item with the users lokal Outlook client. Rather letting
the user open the corresponding folder and selecting the item I'd like to
script outlook to open the item directly and w/o running a search.

My questions are:

a) Which Outlook COM objects and methods could be used here?

b) What kind of unique Exchange value (I have access to all the stuff that's
available through the WebDAV interface) is "really" unique in terms of
letting Outlook open the item w/o running a search within the entire
mailbox.

Thanks for any help!

Patrick

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

a) That depends entirely on what information you have to identify the item. The most direct solutuion would involve the Namespace.GetItemFromID method.

b) EntryID uniquely identifies any item in a store but may change if the user moves the item.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers