Using the Office Protocols Forum

outlook 2007 SMTP Authentication Disable Automatically

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:21:45 Z

Hi,

We are using outlook 2007 on windows XP & Vista PCs. IMAP & SMTP account is configured in the outlook. Mail are working fine for incoming & outgoing. we are using it on more than 50 PCs, every week, SMTP Authentication got disable automatically from outlook & mails stops sending. When we manualy enabled SMTP Authentication, it starts working. After some time on another PC SMTP Auth got disabled. Pl. advice what we can do.

Thanks in advance.

Regards

Manoj K Chandna

MS-SIPAE - 3.3.2 session timer incorrect?

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:02:51 Z

Dear MS documentation team,

We experience that the NTLM security association sometimes gets "stale" before the described 8 hours (at 3.3.2).

"When the NTLM or Kerberos authentication handshake completes and the SA enters the "established" state, the SIP server MUST start an SA expiration timer with a value of 8 hours."

We implemented the recommended handshake 5 minuted earlier as recommended. "A value of five (5) minutes or longer is recommended (SHOULD)" At this time sometimes the old security association is already deleted on the server.

Our current assumption is that the time is not a fixed value (8 hours) but rather a variable timeframe (which would make sense from a load perspective).

Regards

Tim Koehler

Excel Splitter for HPC

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:13:11 Z

Hi all,
Can any one pls help me with the source code for excel splitter related to HPC.
Thanks in advance.
Tiju Kurian Thomas.

Retrieve Outlook smtp account list

Sun, 02 Aug 2009 07:54:12 Z

I'm browsing MSDN but haven't found it (guess I'm not a good searcher :-))

I'm experimenting on outlook add-in and I'd like to list my outgoing accounts (not contacts. my accounts I can send mail from). I only need email addresses (like john@company1.com , john@company2.net,...).
Does microsoft.office.interop.outlook provide this? How?

--edit--
I found AccountsClass in MSDN but I don't have it in dropdown with acailable classes/options:

using Outlook = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook;

namespace test1 {
...
...
Outlook.[ACCOUNTS not in dropdown?!]
}

--edit--

[SmartArt] Discrepancy between GUI and shape information stored in 'diagram1.xml'

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:57:06 Z

Hi all,

With the introduction of Office 2007 SP2, SmartArt now has a shape tree description saved (in a file called 'diagram*.xml') along with its normal data. I am using this shape tree to render SmartArt, which works fine except for some seeming discrepancies between what's saved and what the PowerPoint GUI displays.

An example that illustrates one of the discrepancies is the SmartArt "Trapezoid List". If you create a stock Trapezoid List SmartArt object in the GUI and add text to each of the shapes, the text is oriented horizontally. If you click on the individual shapes, you'll notice that they are rotated.

Now, if you save this file and look at the shape tree generated for this SmartArt object, you'll notice that the shapes are saved as 'flowChartManualOperation' shapes that are rotated 270 degrees. However, the text for each shape is specified as being horizontally oriented (i.e. the "vert" attribute of 'bodyPr' is set to "horz"), and the text's associated 'txXfrm' tag specifies that the text should also be rotated 270 degrees. If you take this shape description and place it in a normal slide, the text is rendered vertically, from bottom to top. This does not match what is rendered for the SmartArt.

I have looked through the data and layout for this SmartArt object (and others that exhibit similar problems), and I haven't seen anything to explain this mismatch. I was wondering if anyone could shed some insight on how to resolve this problem. Did I miss a detail somewhere?

Thanks for the help!
fwdev

Export macro from office file

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:10:40 Z

Hi, I am trying to write a program that will recognize whether or not an office document (.doc, .xls, etc) has a macro in it, and if it does, to export that to a separate document. I need to do this in a platform independent way which means I cannot use VB. (I am developing in Python).

What I have found is a way to find the Macro within the file using an OLE model, but the text of a Macro appears jumbled. Heavily jumbled. I was wondering if there is some straightforward way to get this information out of the files.

Thank you,
Lealdo

Converting Power Point 2007 files to html

Sat, 16 May 2009 09:25:40 Z

Hi,

has anyone an idea on how to convert pptx files to html? Any links, books, specifications, tutorials on how to do such things?

Thanks in advance

Ralph

Ralph

Corruption in Outlook Folders when using MAPI protocol

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:17:47 Z

Hi,

I'm trying to synchronize with Outlook from another application. It's all working very well except that when leaving my application, this seems to cause a corruption in Outlook.

Indeed, when trying to open a folder, I get the following message:
Unable to display the folder. Microsoft Office Outlook could not access the specified folder location. Another application closed unexpectedly while using your Personal Folders file 'C:\Documents and Settings\ABCDE\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\Outlookimap.blablabla.com-00000004.pst'. To prevent potential damage to your Personal Folders file, it will not be available until you close all applications currently using it.

I think something's wrong with the way I'm dealing with the MAPI protocol, probably forgetting to close or release something. But since I do lot of things with it (actually, somebody did, and now i'm trying to understand what it is ;-) ), it will be helpful if someone can point out where could be the possible problem.

What the application is doing basically is retrieving the contacts from a MAPI store which contains the highest count of contacts.

I know I do not give lot of details here, but that's because I have to dig also by myself to understand the things that are done... But if someone can already give me a place to look, this would be nice ;-)

I will try to edit this post, when I retrieve more information...

TY

Baptiste

Office Open XML, Excel Object Model and .Net

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:10:21 Z

Hi all. I have a question regarding OfficeOpen XML and the.Net platform. I work with Excel via Automation using VB. I want to understand how the new XML formats for Excel 2007 are going to affect my approach to developing solutions for Excel. Typically I use Automation by referencing the Excel Object Model 12.0 in my VB projects. This allows me to access the Excel Object Model and the project runs by opening Excel on the client side.

As I move forward, I now know that I can work with the Office Open XML and Open Document Format (ODF) for all spreadsheets. If I decide to move towards a web-based solftware solution (say ASP.Net) and focus on the new XML format (Office Open XML and ODF), does this imply that I will no longer use the Excle Object Model via Automation? Does this mean that I have to learn a new Object model for Excel XML and ODF? Assume further that I may want to dump the spreadsheets into a SQL/Oracle Server at some point and reassemble them. How do these new formats aid me in doing so?

I cannot seem to find any information to answer these questions.

Thanks

EM

SIP authenticating server protocol version 4 and above

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:17:03 Z

Hi,

first thanks for all the open documents provided. It's a great resource for us developer.

Unfortunately I have come to the limit of the documentation and missing some new feature explained.

In MS-SIPAE (Version 2.0, Dec 12, 08), the extension to the SIP concerning authentication, everything is covered until and including authentication protocol version 3 (chapter 3.2.4.1 Sending Messages to the SIP Server). There are some additions to the signature computation in version 4 and above which are not covered here. Is there a chance that this will be added in the near future? Or is there an other source that explains what is missing?

Peter

What’s New – August 2008 Release (posted on 08-19-09)

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:11:56 Z

What’s New – August 2008 Release

This release includes document changes made since the previous release.

[MS-CTAP] Microsoft Windows CardSpace Security Token Acquisition Protocol is preliminary documentation.

The following known issues exist in the August 2008 Release:

Underscore characters are not always visible in code in the PDF files depending on the magnification selected by the user. Those characters are present in printed versions.
Information in a table row may split across two pages.
Table borders are not always visible depending upon the magnification selected by the user. Borders are present in printed versions of the PDF.
Cross-protocol links are only functional when the PDF files for the protocols are in the same folder.
Bookmarks do not work in the system overviews.

excel: how to set a certain row to repeat at the top when printing

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:03:35 Z

Hi I am creating a dynamic excel document using HTML/XML. Yet I can't seem to figure out how to get a specific row to repeat at the top when printing. Closest I found was an office CSS property which I am not sure how to use as what I've tried is not working. The property is "mso-print-title-row" and I've tried using it like this:

<style>

@print
      {
      mso-print-title-row: $1:$1;
      }
</style>

Also I am still not sure that this is how it's done. Any help would be appreciated.

Help with micorsoft acess

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:45:25 Z

hi i am having a bit of triuble actaully i have a very old cd actaully having an apllication of viewing students in 1987 done in 2003 Acess and it came in cd with .mdb file and a ui to display the data properly but apparently i want to edit this file and i am having trouble doing that it says that i donot have permission and the error number is 3033 if you google search it....so i read a few they all are talking about having some .mdw file i am not sure even though i found one called system.mdw but not sure how to use it ....please help me with this issue thanks

D.Boy

addon for Outlook

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:01:45 Z

I am interested in writing an addon for Outlook, which reads in each individual emails and back it up. One thing I have no clue what-so-ever is how to access individual emails?

Any help would be great.

Thanks

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How to create a new Office Doc

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:42:43 Z

I'm beating my head against the wall thinking "This CANNOT be that hard", but I can't find the answer.

I am just getting started with the OpenXml SDK, and I have what should be a simple task: I want to read in a Word Template file (.dotx), perform some manipulations on the content, and write it back out as a new Word document (.docx), with a different file name. Disregard the manipulations for the moment. How do I save the package as a new filename? All the examples read in a file, perform manipulations,and use XmlDocument.Save to write it back out, but I can't find a way to change the file name that it's written to. The TargetPath and TargetName properties of the MainDocumentPart are read only, so I can't just change those.

I appreciate the help.

Technical documentation links don’t resolve in Adobe Reader 9

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:46:07 Z

This is a change introduced by Adobe, which has altered the default setting for view mode in Adobe Reader 9. In order to access links, users need to change their settings so that the document is not in view mode. In Adobe Reader 9, go to the Edit menu and click Preferences. In the Categories list, click Documents. Under PDF/A View Mode, change the selection from Only for PDF/A documents to Never, and click OK.

Additional details on changing the setting can be located via the Adobe help site: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Acrobat/9.0/Standard/WS3E0E8467-B787-4020-A1D3-6BC762A42DF2.w.html

Hide message

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:34:10 Z

Hi
. I have a requirement to hide certain outlook items eg mail, appointment inside outlook. They should still reside in Exchange, but based on certain conditions eg properties they should not be visible to user in OL. I thought of doing so using Exchange client extension . Could you please let me know if this can done?If so it would be nice if u can explain in brief how.

Thanks
Shailesh

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ADO or DAO?

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:22:31 Z

Hi all,

I have to write new application in access2003 and I am new in access. I edited access application before and this is first time I have to create one.

I really don't know Which method I Should choose for my application ADO or DAO.

The application only has 7 tables and I have to make data entery form fro this application as well. Please guid me what is the best way to do this.

Is there any way I make user to use my command button for inserting and Uodating and deleteing data instead of using the keys at the form.(|< , < ,>, >|, etc)

Please Please Help me.

abcd

VB in Excel

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:03:02 Z

I've created a macro in excel in VBscript. The macro migrates a portion of one excel spreadsheet and sends it to another workbook and then closes the workbook. I want to change the default location that pops up everytime you save something. I have changed the default save name text, but haven't figured out the path. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks.

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Where to download the Office Open Protocol Specifications? thanks.

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:49:17 Z

Where to download the Office Open Protocol Specifications? thanks.

Community Content for Office Protocols

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:20:14 Z

The Open Office Protocol set are sweet - very nice and thanks.

In reading some of them carefully, there are some places where clarification would be useful and community content might be helpful.

Can MS open up community content?

Thomas Lee

Open Access database from C#

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:51:10 Z

IM working on a small C# program to backup My Access database automatically and woould like to add a few bells and whistles. Id like to be able to open the selected database from the program in exclusive and non-exclusive mode. Ive read the articl on SMSDN about Access automation as well as others but still have a problem.

using Access = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Access; 
 
....... 
 
private void btnOpenCurrDB_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) 
{ 
   // Start a new instance of Access for Automation: 
   Access.Application oAccess = new Access.ApplicationClass(); 
   if (cbExclMode.Checked == true) 
   { 
       //Open a database in exclusive mode: 
       oAccess.OpenCurrentDatabase(@"C:\FTTH.mdb", true,null); 
   } 
   else 
   { 
       // Open a database in non-exclusive mode: 
       oAccess.OpenCurrentDatabase(@"C:\FTTH.mdb", false,null); 
   } 
} 

When I run the program, and click on the OpenCurrDB button I get 'InvalidCastException was unhandled'
Unable to cast COM object of type 'Microsoft.Office.Interop.Access.ApplicationClass' to interface type 'Microsoft.Office.Interop.Access._ApplicationClass'. The exception cmoes in either of the two oAccess.OpenCurrentDatabase lines depending on whether or not I have the exclusive checkbox checked.

Im a novice programmer, the rest of my program works fine, I just cant seem to get my hand on this part.

correlation between chart and its data

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:43:42 Z

How chart correlates with its data in excel?

saranya

Printing EMFs - all help appreciated!

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:33:31 Z

I am having problems printing enhanced metafile images in a Microsoft Word document.

The images were made in Microsoft PowerPoint and consist of several layers. These layers were ?grouped? and the image saved as an enhanced metafile. These enhanced metafile images were then inserted into the Word document.

These images were created on my PC laptop and print fine on a PC desktop computer linked to a HP deskjet priniter. However, I would like to print this document on a HP5550 laser printer. It is using the PC computer linked to the HP5550 laser printer that I am having difficulties printing these enhanced metafile images.

When the document is viewed in page view, and print preview, all of the enhanced metafile images can be viewed correctly. Unfortunately, when I print these enhanced metafile images in Word, these images do not print as created/viewed. The top layer of the image is fine but the lower layers of the image are obscured because the transparent regions of the top layer have been converted into white coloured regions.

I can save the document as a PDF and the images will print correctly from the computer linked to the HP5550 laser printer. However, I would prefer to print directly from Word as the images become more pixelated in the PDF format.

Please could you tell me what settings I need to change on the PC computer linked to the HP5550 laser printer (Word or printer?) to allow these enhanced metafile images to print correctly from Word. Many thanks

Word Macro Paragraph Style

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:04:02 Z

Hello All,

I have text's(dates like 1920) having some particular style in a page while using Macro. The word document has about 90 pages. The text having style starts from 9th page. So I reach 9th page and read the first text in the table having the style and set it as header.There are some more text's having same style on same page.

My problem is that I want to jump to next page to select the first text having style and set as header while ignoring other text's that follow, on the same page. Is there a solution by using Paragraph? As curently it sets all the text's of the same page as header.

Here is my function below:

Function setCIHeader()

Dim doc As Document
Dim objParagraph As Paragraph

'Dim pgno As Integer
Set doc = Documents.Open(ActiveDocument.path & "\cumindex.chrono.en.doc")
doc.Activate

Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToPage, Which:=wdGoToPrevious, count:=10

pgno = getActualCurrentPageNo
'Dim n As Integer
n = 8

Do While pgno < n
pgno = getActualCurrentPageNo
goToNextPage
Loop

'Do While pgno >= 8
'Loop

'For Each itm In doc.ActiveWindow.Application.ActiveDocument.Paragraphs
For Each objParagraph In ActiveDocument.Paragraphs
'goToNextPage

With objParagraph
If objParagraph.style = "Chrono.conclusionyear" Then
'MsgBox (objParagraph.style)

.Range.Select
'goToPreviousPage
Selection.MoveUp Unit:=wdLine, count:=1
'Selection.InsertBreak Type:=wdSectionBreakContinuous
'Selection.MoveDown Unit:=wdLine, count:=1
'goToNextPage
ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.SeekView = wdSeekCurrentPageHeader
Selection.HeaderFooter.LinkToPrevious = Not Selection.HeaderFooter. _
LinkToPrevious
'Selection.WholeStory
'Selection.delete Unit:=wdCharacter, count:=1
Selection.MoveDown Unit:=wdScreen, count:=1
MsgBox (Trim(objParagraph.Range.text))
ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.SeekView = wdSeekCurrentPageHeader
Selection.InsertAfter (vbLf)
Selection.TypeText text:=Trim(objParagraph.Range.text)
'Selection.MoveDown Unit:=wdScreen, count:=1
'Selection.MoveDown Unit:=wdLine, count:=10
'ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.SeekView = wdSeekCurrentPageFooter
'Selection.MoveDown Unit:=wdLine, count:=3
'n = getActualCurrentPageNo + 1
ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.NextHeaderFooter
Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToTable, Which:=wdGoToNext, count:=1
n = n + 1
Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToPage, Which:=wdGoToNext, count:=n
'Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToTable, Which:=wdGoToNext, count:=2
'objParagraph.style = Nothing
'Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToTable, Which:=wdGoToNext

'ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.SeekView = wdSeekCurrentPageHeader
'If Selection.HeaderFooter.IsHeader = True Then
'Selection.HeaderFooter.LinkToPrevious = Not Selection.HeaderFooter. _
'LinkToPrevious

'Else
' ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.SeekView = wdSeekCurrentPageHeader
'End If

'Exit Function
End If
End With
Application.StatusBar = "Setting Header in pages...Please Wait.."
Next
doc.Close savechanges:=wdSaveChanges
Application.StatusBar = "Done..."
'Loop ''New R&D

End Function

Thanks in advance,

Anup

How to Update Contact Details in MS Outlook using API/MS Office SDK

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:46:59 Z

Hello,

How to Update Contact Details in MS Outlook using API/MS Office SDK
I have referred http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa168454(office.11).aspx
but i can successfully add user details in ms Outlook, But how to update Outlook contact details from application.

Thanks

How to permanently delete MICROSOFT OFFICE ENTERPSIE 2007?!!

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:35:43 Z

Hi, I have been looking all over the net to find out how to delete mircosoft office enterprise 2007 permanently from my comp. After using a trial version it doesn't remove from my computer.

Please, help!

Thanks your help would be greatly appreciated.

J.Joab