Trapping a public folder posting

Bill Le May · Joined: 16 Feb 2008 Posts: 4

A long while back I Googled a doc that I tried to use for having Exchange
send an email when a posting is saved to a public folder I want to monitor.

http://www.somorita.com/exchange2000/PublicFolderNotificationEventSink.doc

I posted here about it, but couldn't ever get the approach to work, I
suppose because it's for Exchange 2000 and we're on 2003. Anyway, I have an
increasing number of public folder solutions in place that can be monitored
with Outlook, but I want to set up more sophisticated monitoring on the
Exchange side. I want to have code running on Exchange to look at what's
posted and notify the appropriate recipients immediately.

I found something called an Event Sink Wizard that only works on VB6. Are
there any other approaches I can research?

Archived from group: microsoft>public>exchange>development

Glen Scales [MVP] · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 92

Then Event Sink wizard is okay if you want to write VB6 code its really just
a wizard to come up with some templated code. I would recommend you look at
using .NET instead there detail in the Exchange SDK of the process for
building event sink using .net
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa563094(EXCHG.80).aspx also have a
read of http://www.infinitec.de/articles/exchange/managedeventsinks.aspx
and
http://blogs.msdn.com/mstehle/archive/2006/01/17/outbox-introduction-to-exchange-store-event-sinks-part-1.aspx

The code from that article you referenced will work okay no matter what
version 2000.2003 What problems where you having ?

Cheers
Glen

"Bill Le May" wrote in message
news:%23%23q4$oCcIHA.4888@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>A long while back I Googled a doc that I tried to use for having Exchange
>send an email when a posting is saved to a public folder I want to monitor.
>
> http://www.somorita.com/exchange2000/PublicFolderNotificationEventSink.doc
>
> I posted here about it, but couldn't ever get the approach to work, I
> suppose because it's for Exchange 2000 and we're on 2003. Anyway, I have
> an increasing number of public folder solutions in place that can be
> monitored with Outlook, but I want to set up more sophisticated monitoring
> on the Exchange side. I want to have code running on Exchange to look at
> what's posted and notify the appropriate recipients immediately.
>
> I found something called an Event Sink Wizard that only works on VB6. Are
> there any other approaches I can research?
>

Bill Le May · Joined: 16 Feb 2008 Posts: 4

"Glen Scales [MVP]" wrote...
> Then Event Sink wizard is okay if you want to write VB6 code its really
> just a wizard to come up with some templated code. I would recommend you
> look at using .NET instead there detail in the Exchange SDK of the process
> for building event sink using .net
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa563094(EXCHG.80).aspx also have
> a read of http://www.infinitec.de/articles/exchange/managedeventsinks.aspx
> and
> http://blogs.msdn.com/mstehle/archive/2006/01/17/outbox-introduction-to-exchange-store-event-sinks-part-1.aspx
>
> The code from that article you referenced will work okay no matter what
> version 2000.2003 What problems where you having ?

I went through all 13 numbered steps in the document okay, but I get a
connection an error executing the command line script. The document says:

=================
To register the event, type this command at the command prompt:

cscript RegEvent.vbs Add "OnSave" ExOleDB.ScriptEventSink.1 ~CA"file://./backofficestorage/yourdomain.com/public
~CA folders/YourFolder/NewItemAlert" -f c:\NewItemAlert.vbs WHERE ~CA
"DAV:ishidden" = FALSE

This will register this event sink for the folder called YourFolder. The
script is now ready to run.

===============

I know I have to change the domain and the public folder name, but the path
still sems wrong.

Glen Scales [MVP] · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 92

That's just the Exoledb File path its right refer
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms876443(EXCHG.65).aspx you can
also use the http uri eg http://server/public/foldername . This is for the
default Mapi public folder store if you have have created other NonMapi
stores then the path would vary.

What is the exact error message you receive this will generally tell you
what the problem is.

Cheers
Glen

"Bill Le May" wrote in message %23ncIHA.5208@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> "Glen Scales [MVP]" wrote...
>> Then Event Sink wizard is okay if you want to write VB6 code its really
>> just a wizard to come up with some templated code. I would recommend you
>> look at using .NET instead there detail in the Exchange SDK of the
>> process for building event sink using .net
>> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa563094(EXCHG.80).aspx also
>> have a read of
>> http://www.infinitec.de/articles/exchange/managedeventsinks.aspx and
>> http://blogs.msdn.com/mstehle/archive/2006/01/17/outbox-introduction-to-exchange-store-event-sinks-part-1.aspx
>>
>> The code from that article you referenced will work okay no matter what
>> version 2000.2003 What problems where you having ?
>
> I went through all 13 numbered steps in the document okay, but I get a
> connection an error executing the command line script. The document
> says:
>
> =================
> To register the event, type this command at the command prompt:
>
> cscript RegEvent.vbs Add "OnSave" ExOleDB.ScriptEventSink.1
> ~CA"file://./backofficestorage/yourdomain.com/public ~CA
> folders/YourFolder/NewItemAlert" -f c:\NewItemAlert.vbs WHERE ~CA
> "DAV:ishidden" = FALSE
>
> This will register this event sink for the folder called YourFolder. The
> script is now ready to run.
>
> ===============
>
> I know I have to change the domain and the public folder name, but the
> path still sems wrong.
>
>
>

Bill Le May · Joined: 16 Feb 2008 Posts: 4

"Glen Scales [MVP]" wrote...
> What is the exact error message you receive this will generally tell you
> what the problem is.

Error opening connection: -2146105340

Glen Scales [MVP] · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 92

This sounds like your having a problem with the provider itself are you
running this directly on the server in question. Exoledb can only be used
locally on an Exchange server. The other thing you might want to try instead
is registering the sink with Exchange Explorer
http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4AFE3504-C209-4A73-AC5D-FF2A4A3B48B7&displaylang=en
which is part of the SDK tools . This will usually give you a more
descriptive error message. BTW all those "~CA " in the commandline shouldn't
be their that looks like a cut and paste issue from the author.

Cheers
Glen

"Bill Le May" wrote in message @TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> "Glen Scales [MVP]" wrote...
>> What is the exact error message you receive this will generally tell you
>> what the problem is.
>
> Error opening connection: -2146105340
>

Bill Le May · Joined: 16 Feb 2008 Posts: 4

"Glen Scales [MVP]" wrote...
> This sounds like your having a problem with the provider itself are you
> running this directly on the server in question.

Yes, I am running on the Exchange server. When I first Googled the error
code I saw the posting that warned about this.

> BTW all those "~CA " in the commandline shouldn't be their that looks like
> a cut and paste issue from the author.

Yes, I only pasted those unchanged from the original document, but they
weren't submitted to the cmd line.

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