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PROXSYS
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How about a module with Exchange Server functionality ...6/27/2005 1:38:23 PM

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Hi,

What does the DNN module community think about a module that would allow to send, modify or delete appointments to/from a resources mailbox at a Microsoft Exchange Server box?

The module would have calendaring functionality and it would allow for a project manager to access the mailboxes of its resources.

Other functions as well, such as:

List all of the resources appoinments,
List all of the project managers resources,
Store appointments at a SQL database (manage them as well),

I have it built under ASP.Net and Windows Forms and it is feasable to port to DNN.

Any thoughts appreciated.

Michael
PROXSYS
Asp.Net User
Re: How about a module with Exchange Server functionality ...6/27/2005 8:51:36 PM

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Nobody jumped in excitement.  I guess nobody likes the idea too much.  That means it's not commercial.

That's just what I needed to know.
Freeway
Asp.Net User
Re: How about a module with Exchange Server functionality ...6/27/2005 9:57:23 PM

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Michael... what a polite way to bump :-)
I too am working with DNN in a enterprise level windows intranet/extranet - I suppose because I cannot afford the licensing requirements of microsoft portal server, particularly the CALs required for wider extranet functionality.

I have been searching for 18 months now to attempt to find some native DNN PAs to access E2K, particularly Public Folders.

Right at the beginning I found this code posted by (I'm sorry I can't locate the post now).  Pop it into a Text/HTML Module and you go WOW!

<OBJECT classid=CLSID:0006F063-0000-0000-C000-000000000046 id=ViewCtlFolder width="300" height="240"><br> <param name="Folder" value="Inbox"><br> <param name="Namespace" value="MAPI"><br> <param name="Restriction" value><param name="DeferUpdate" value="0"></OBJECT>

Problem is it reads the local Outlook control, hence fails in an ExtraNet environment.  I really thought this may have got me (or a developer - because I'm not) close - but alas.

Can yo describe the functionality you have in code atm?

..Chris
hmnguyen
Asp.Net User
Re: How about a module with Exchange Server functionality ...6/28/2005 3:12:49 AM

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Well, I guess the reason no one has implemented or commericalize a DNN module that integrate with Exchange is probebly because Exchange already comes with Outlook Web Access (OWA), a fully featured web-based mail client.  Most people woud just use a Text/HTML module to include an IFRAME to wrap around OWA.
Enterprise Forms for DotNetNuke
PROXSYS
Asp.Net User
Re: How about a module with Exchange Server functionality ...6/28/2005 4:43:19 AM

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Hi Chris,

I developed the interface using WebDav (it took me awhile to figure it out; but now I couldn't live without it); you can find detailed information about this under the Microsoft Exchange SDK.  WebDav uses HTTP as its transport means.  You will not have to deal with firewalls or any other constraints other than the administrative configuration at the Exchange Server side.  There are some workarounds if the Exchange Server is setup in a Front-end/Back-end topology and if it is listening on a different port other than port 80, or if it uses an SSL tunnel.

I wouldn't go the historic ActiveX control direction; eventually you will run into some serious security issues imposed by the latest XP SP2 pack and Windows 2003 OS'.  Most likely, you would have to sign your components and possibly have to deal with .NET framework security issues. (Looks like I've been there, right!  I have and it took many hours of hard work to figure everything out!)

And keep away from CDO in any shape or size it comes in, unless you are designing a server program on the Exchange Server side.

I hope this info is useful to you.

Michael
Freeway
Asp.Net User
Re: How about a module with Exchange Server functionality ...6/28/2005 7:05:43 AM

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hmnguyen, yes you're correct, the OWA client is great and this is in fact just what I am using at the moment, we have all experienced the non-flexibility issues with iFrames, and some of the formatting of OWA panes isn't always the best solution for the job. I am tending to simply use Efficions Article module, or one of the other Image Link Modules to spawn a new browser window containg the required OWA URL,  such as...
http://mailserver.mydomain/exchange/ymailbox/Inbox/?Cmd=contents or similar.
This enable me to add an appropriate graphic or icon, and improves the "visual appeal"

I have a dire need to represent the data from a number of Exchange public calendars into a nicely formatted list of events onto a dnn page.  I've experimented with 'Enterprise Events" which supposedly reads in an Outlook Format CSV file - but with no luck.

What I'd love is an Exchange add-on that produced an RSS feed!! - specifically from the calendar!

..Chris
PROXSYS
Asp.Net User
Re: How about a module with Exchange Server functionality ...6/28/2005 11:09:41 AM

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Hi,

I am fully aware of OWA.  I believe you are not following what I said; or more likely, I didn't explain myself very well. OWA allows you to manage your own Exchange store.  I am talking about a scheduling and calendaring software where a project manager controls his resources (staff or other, such as: conference rooms, equipment, etc.); OWA does not do this.  A project manager would post an appointment to his resources calendar; the resource can use OWA online in order to view his schedule.  The project manager would have a schedule and spreadsheet view of all of his resources appointments.

I designed this software for a major software company in the US.  They didn't find a commercial package that would manage exactly what they wanted.  We had gone through all these thought steps.  The Windows Forms version allows them to work in an offline/online modality.

Taking this into account, what do you think?

Michael
cniknet
Asp.Net User
Re: How about a module with Exchange Server functionality ...6/28/2005 1:29:21 PM

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Client-side access to Exchange using WebDAV is greatly simplified (almost to the point where it's trivial) using Independentsoft's component. This is the approach I would suggest.

We are in the process of implementing a generic WebDAV server-side API that allows any ASP.Net app (or DNN module) to present a file-system centric view of application data, so I am pretty neck-deep in WebDAV stuff. Feel free to email me if you have any implementation questions. The MS WebDAV implementation is completely non-standard (no surprise there), but on the plus side it's well-documented in the MSDN Library.

Nik

Nik Kalyani
Speerio, Inc.

[DotNetNuke and ASP.Net solutions here]
PROXSYS
Asp.Net User
Re: How about a module with Exchange Server functionality ...6/28/2005 2:39:51 PM

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Hi Nik,

I was talking more about a solution that inevitably utilizes components such as the ones offered by Independentsoft's.  As a matter of fact, in order to develop the solution that I am talking about, I did develop the components that provide all the functionallity of the software components that you mention. 

I saw the cost of Independentsoft's components and a great idea popped up: I could deliver to the DNN community the same components at a cost that is more in line with the nature of the project.  I haven't come up with a price yet, but a good estimate would be in the 30 to 40 dollar range.  It would cover almost all of the specifications of the future competitor.

Thanks for your great feedback!

Michael Planchart
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