Re: Accessing MS Outlook 2003 from iSeries apps

["Mark Allen" <scprideandms@xxxxxxxxx>]

Imagine that MS "abandoning" a technology and "recommending" (in the MS
thesarus this is a synonym for "forcing") you MIGRATE (again!!!) to their
latest and greatest (NOT!!!)

On 1/12/07, Lukas Beeler <l.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Read this before thinking about implementing a WebDAV Application:
>
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/c55510d1-e42e-4566-a75b-2d98b
> 3014edd.aspx
>
> "WebDAV is used to develop messaging applications. WebDAV provides
> access to folders, items, and item properties in the Exchange store.
> WebDAV can remotely access Exchange. WebDAV is de-emphasized in Exchange
> 2007. We recommend that you develop new messaging applications using
> Exchange Web Services, and migrate existing applications when feasible."
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Cunningham
> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 7:00 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: RE: Accessing MS Outlook 2003 from iSeries apps
>
> Exchange environment. So I guess I should have said Exchange since I
> would not really "talk" to Outlook client but the Exchange server.
>
> Since I sent this I did come across this product
> http://www.syncex.com/api/connector-application-programming-interface.ht
> ml which looks like it should run on Websphere. On the details it talks
> about Exchange using WebDAV. If it does (and it's documented somewhere)
> I would think any web app could update Exchange
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lukas Beeler
> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 12:25 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: RE: Accessing MS Outlook 2003 from iSeries apps
>
> Are you using Outlook as a standalone Application, or are you using it
> as a Groupware client in a Microsoft Exchange environment?
>
> You mentioned GroupWise, so I'm going to assume you have an Exchange
> server.
>
> I wouldn't approach this problem with an application from the i5/OS
> side, since this lacks any sort of interface to Exchange. Instead, write
> a windows application which gets the data from your System i, and writes
> it to Exchange.
>
> Here's some sample code you could maybe use:
>
> http://www.msexchangefaq.de/tools/feiertage.1.5.vbs.txt
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Cunningham
> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 3:29 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Accessing MS Outlook 2003 from iSeries apps
>
> Has anyone on this list done any work doing dynamic updating of calendar
> items in Outlook 2003 from an iSeries application? Our iSeries knows
> about student and faculty class schedules and we would like to try and
> post those classes to their Outlook Calendars. With out old e-mail
> system (GroupWise) we did vCal files for the user to import but we would
> prefer to do a direct update
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