Can I set extended properties to a meeting that i'm gonna create using Send button from meeting window?
Are there any alternatives for setting extended properties to o meeting besides creating the meeting using OfficeJs EWS request CreateItem?
Outlook Web Add-ins don't provide anything for creating meetings (except REST API calls). They are run in the context of current item only. You need to develop a COM add-in if you need to get access to a rich set of methods and properties available, i.e. the Outlook object model.
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I need to get online presence status from Microsoft Outlook using VBA.
The status is presented as a green-yellow-red-grey light displayed near the contact name and usually provided by some instant message(IM) application (e.g. Teams, Skype, Zoom, Jabber etc.).
Here is how it is usually look:
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Unfortunately the status is not available in Outlook structures AddressEntry or ExchangeUser, which are pretty easy to acquire.
Note: Please do not confuse online presence with calendar availability, which can easily retrieved using function GetFreeBusy.
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The only relevant and pretty decent description related to the topic I found here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/client-developer/shared/integrating-im-applications-with-office .
But here the topic is presented from the different angle - what should be done from the IM application side to provide this status. In short: the IM app should add some data to the registry under ...\Software\IM Providers\... and implement interface IUCOfficeIntegration, so Outlook can use it to retrieve the status.
So an intermediate idea was to retrieve the status via this interface from the IM app directly. But there is very few information about calling COM interfaces from VBA.
Does anyone can provide any hints how the status can be retrieved?
The Outlook object model doesn't provide any property or method for that. Graph API provides the Get presence methods for that.
You can use Graph for that. I don't think you'd be able to use VBA though.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/presence-get?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http
With the Outlook UI you can add an email address to your junk-email list, you can add a domain name as trusted domain, but you can't add a domain name to your junk-email list. You must manually edit the email address in your junk-email list to achieve that, so I wrote an Add-In to do this for me, but cant find the method to do that. Apparently the Outlook object model doesn't provide anything for that.
Is there a code workaround for this fatal limitation?
That is correct. Outlook Object Model does not provide any means to access or manipulate Junk Email settings.
You can try to use Extended MAPI (C++ or Delphi) to build the MAPI server side rule that lists all the blocked senders, but it is definitely not for the faint-hearted.
If using Redemption (I am its author) is an option, it exposes RDOJunkEmailOptions object (returned from RDOSession.JunkEmailOptions, RDOAccount.JunkEmailOptions, RDOExchangeMailboxStore.JunkEmailOptions), which allow to add blocked senders using RDOJunkEmailOptions.BlockedSenders.Add.
I'm using the data collection features available through Microsoft Access 2007 and Microsoft Outlook 2007 to send out an email and collect data from the recipient. The data is then stored in an Access Table.
The feature that I am using is explained here pretty well: Collecting Data Using Email
The issue that I have run into is that other than the email address, there's no way to customize the email that is being distributed. What I'm hoping to accomplish is the ability to essentially do a mail merge of sorts to personalize the email. This doesn't seem possible using the wizard approached described in the attached article. Is this something that I could accomplish via Visual Basic or some other means within MS Office.
If you've chosen the HTML-option you will get only text boxes and there is no way to customise the email if sent directly from Access. If you do not specify an email address, Access will generate the email so that you can type in the recipient - you can customise the email at that point.
If you do want all the fancy stuff (ie, customising the email, using drop downs, yes/no buttons, validation etc) then you'll need to use InfoPath as a source (again, if using Access). That's the application where you can build your form using validation and controls. The disadvantage is that the recipient needs to have InfoPath installed on their machine.
You could of course create an application to loop through your records and you can customise the HTML as much as you like then, this is probably best done outside of Office.
We are currently working on small SharePoint project.
As per our requirement, we need to implement custom check in page with additional drop down list to select File status.
Would like to know whether we can customize default check in page? If yes, How? How to redirect to custom page?
I would argue that what is the purpose of applying the metadata at the check-in status? Can this be a metadata property of the document? And if so it can easily be set in most office clients inside the document bar. Allowing them to retain their built in office client functionality. If this isn't the case. I would suggest using the Client Side Object Model to build a custom action that sets this value and then checks the file in. It would be much easier than creating custom action pages
I am writing an Outlook addin that inserts content into an email, and I have a emailSent event that I would like send an event back to my server letting me know some content was shared.
Is there a way to attach some meta information to the email (or the word doc, which is what you are creating in outlook) so that I can grab that meta info so I can send it back to my server.
Right now, the only way I think I can do it is to search through the email on the send event looking for my content with regex and pull out the info i need, but that seems cumbersome, and also means I need to run the regex for every email sent, even when they haven't added my content.
There is the concept of MAPI user properties, which you can add to an Outlook item. Since Office 2007 the object model allows access to them. If your add-in must run also with older Outlook version, you should recurr to use Redemption (which I prefer also for higher office versions because it has more flexibility, albeit a greater footprint in distribution).
See UserProperties Interface on MSDN.