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Announcement: 4

Exchange Server Protocols announcement

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    MSDN Exchange Release Notes — September 14, 2015
    Michelle Hammond Tuesday, September 22, 2015 11:12 PM

    The September 2015 release contains updates made to the Microsoft Exchange Server Protocols and Standards documents in relation to the release of Exchange Server 2016. 

    Exchange Server Protocol Documents links

    • Landing Page: Exchange Server Protocols
    • Full documentation set (ZIP) – Microsoft Exchange Server Protocols Documentation

    Exchange Server and Outlook Standards links

    • Landing Page: Exchange Server and Outlook Standards Support
    • Full documentation set (ZIP) – Microsoft Exchange Server and Outlook Standards Documentation

    The following new specifications have been added:

    • [MS-OXWSOLPS]: Online Personal Search Web Service Protocol
      Note that for the Exchange Server 2016 Preview release, this document was published as “[MS-OLPS]: Online Personal Search Protocol.” The title and short name published with the current release are final and should be used exclusively to refer to this document from now on.

    The following protocols have been archived:

    • None.

    The following known issues exist in this release:

    • None.
  • Link
    Exchange Server Protocol Test Suites Release -- November 2012
    Tom Devey - MSFT Monday, November 05, 2012 10:31 PM

    The Office Interoperability team is pleased to announce the release of the Exchange Server Protocol Test Suites. The test suites are designed in a client-to-server relationship and were originally developed for the in-house testing of the Microsoft Open Specifications. The test suites have been used extensively during Plugfests and Interoperability Labs to test partner implementations and are now available on MSConnect for public download. Test suites test the server-side implementation of the Open Specification protocol, as specified in Open Specification documentation, by acting as a synthetic client.

    Currently the Exchange Server Protocol Test Suites support the ten RPC based Exchange protocols listed in the table below. Want to learn more about the Test Suites? You can watch a video from one of our recent events that provides an overview of what is included in the test suite package. As always, if you have any questions or issues please reach out to the support team in this forum or through Email at dochelp (at) microsoft (dot) com.

    Download
    The Test Suites are openly available (with Microsoft account) on MSConnect and are contained within the “Microsoft Open Specifications Test Tools” program. All you need to do is to simply "join" the program and go to the downloads page to get access.

    Exchange Protocol Test Suites Supported Protocols
    [MS-OXCFOLD]: Folder Object Protocol Specification
    [MS-OXCFXICS]: Bulk Data Transfer Protocol Specification
    [MS-OXCMSG]: Message and Attachment Object Protocol Specification
    [MS-OXCPERM]: Exchange Access and Operation Permissions Protocol Specification
    [MS-OXCPRPT]: Property and Stream Object Protocol Specification
    [MS-OXCROPS]: Remote Operations (ROP) List and Encoding Protocol Specification
    [MS-OXCRPC]: Wire Format Protocol Specification
    [MS-OXCSTOR]: Store Object Protocol Specification
    [MS-OXCTABL]: Table Object Protocol Specification
    [MS-OXORULE]: E-Mail Rules Protocol Specification




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    Microsoft Exchange RPC Extractor (RPX) version 1.0 is available for download
    Tom Devey - MSFT Friday, February 11, 2011 11:15 PM

    The Microsoft Exchange RPC Extractor (RPX) is a command-line tool that can parse network captures and interpret remote procedure calls made from a client to Microsoft Exchange . RPX uses the information provided in the Microsoft Exchange protocol documentation to parse RPCs, remote operations (ROPs), and the parameters for each ROP.

    Download is available at the Microsoft Download Center found here.

  • Link
    Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Documentation
    Tom Devey - MSFT Thursday, April 16, 2009 10:20 PM

    Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Protocol Documentation

     

    The Microsoft Exchange Server protocols documentation provides detailed technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols (including extensions to industry-standard or other published protocols) used by Microsoft Exchange Server to communicate with other Microsoft products.

     

    Click here to go to the download page for the Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 protocol documentation PDF files.

     

    Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Standards Documentation

     

    The Exchange Server Standards Documents describe Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 support for industry messaging standards and Requests for Comments (RFCs) related to iCalendar, IMAP4, and POP3.

     

    Click here to go to the download page for the Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Standards Documentation PDF files.

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    Exchange Server Protocols Release Notes — June, 2017

    Open Specifications
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    Exchange Server Protocols
    These notes cover the Exchange Server Protocols releases in May and June, which included bug fixes and a variety of other updates for the following documents. The documents may be updated ...
    Sticky | 0 Replies | 139 Views | Created by Tom Jebo - Tuesday, July 18, 2017 11:30 PM
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    Open Specifications General FAQ

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    This material should not be considered as a complete coverage of the frequently asked questions. Its goal is to capture the high-level questions in the Open Specifications ...
    Sticky | 0 Replies | 2767 Views | Created by JCurry - Tuesday, March 25, 2014 5:56 PM
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    Message object properties have strange data id

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    Exchange Server Protocols
    Hi, I'm using a .pst specification to analyse its files. I've come with the problem that some properties can have strange data id (HNID) - I've met so for ...
    Proposed | 5 Replies | 328 Views | Created by Aleksei Alefirov - Wednesday, June 21, 2017 4:08 PM | Last reply by Tarun Chopra - MSFT - Wednesday, August 16, 2017 7:55 PM
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    ActiveSync server returning a 200 OK to http OPTIONS command when mailbox is not located on that server.

    Open Specifications
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    Exchange Server Protocols
    Hello, When I send a OPTIONS http request to a ActiveSync server, I am receiving a 200 OK response.  When I send a FolderSync command on the same tcp ...
    Proposed | 8 Replies | 282 Views | Created by pcardh0 - Friday, July 14, 2017 10:36 PM | Last reply by Tarun Chopra - MSFT - Saturday, July 22, 2017 2:01 AM
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    Exchange Server Protocols Release Notes — June, 2017

    Open Specifications
     > 
    Exchange Server Protocols
    These notes cover the Exchange Server Protocols releases in May and June, which included bug fixes and a variety of other updates for the following documents. The documents may be updated ...
    Discussion | 0 Replies | 139 Views | Created by Tom Jebo - Tuesday, July 18, 2017 11:30 PM
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    URL parameter documentation for WebClientReadFormQueryString for Exchange and OWA 2013

    Open Specifications
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    Exchange Server Protocols
    Hi, The specification [MS-OXWSCORE] describes the WebClientReadFormQueryString for the GetItem EWS operation. The returned string contains valid request parameters for ...
    Answered | 23 Replies | 8119 Views | Created by NielsS - Monday, January 07, 2013 8:55 AM | Last reply by Tarun Chopra - MSFT - Monday, July 17, 2017 6:28 PM
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    New Office 365 EWS bug in GetDelegateReponse

    Open Specifications
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    Exchange Server Protocols
    Office 365 recently broke the GetDelegateReponse message. This is what the GetDelegateResponse should be:     ...
    Answered | 2 Replies | 215 Views | Created by EWS_Developer - Wednesday, June 28, 2017 7:02 PM | Last reply by EWS_Developer - Friday, June 30, 2017 5:54 PM
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    Categorizing large numbers of messages

    Open Specifications
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    Exchange Server Protocols
    Is there a downside to assigning one or two categories to a large number messages?    
    Answered | 1 Replies | 237 Views | Created by MBalsam - Friday, May 19, 2017 2:48 AM | Last reply by Edgar A Olougouna - Friday, May 19, 2017 4:10 AM
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    Losing some content of the original message after draft synchronization in EAS 16.0

    Open Specifications
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    Exchange Server Protocols
    Since protocol 16.0, we can sync draft to and from the server. While syncing the draft from the server, we can obtain the mailbox message like how we sync other folders, like ...
    Answered | 2 Replies | 319 Views | Created by kmskms - Wednesday, May 10, 2017 1:27 PM | Last reply by Tom Jebo - Friday, May 12, 2017 1:23 AM
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    Exchange Server Protocols Release Notes — April, 2017

    Open Specifications
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    Exchange Server Protocols
    These notes cover the Exchange Server Protocols releases in March and April, which included bug fixes and a variety of other updates for the following documents. The documents may ...
    Discussion | 0 Replies | 320 Views | Created by Tom Jebo - Friday, April 28, 2017 11:42 PM
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    Outlook 2013 behavior as an IMAP client

    Open Specifications
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    Exchange Server Protocols
    Open Specifications folks: Be aware of this thread over in Office IT ...
    Answered | 59 Replies | 9333 Views | Created by atlauren - Wednesday, June 05, 2013 5:20 AM | Last reply by davros1973b - Thursday, April 20, 2017 12:29 AM
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    AirSync -> Sync -> Add, Change, Delete, Fetch

    Open Specifications
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    Exchange Server Protocols
    Hi there, When synchronizing the data between client and the server we send a Sync request containing Add, Change, Delete and Fetch ...
    Answered | 2 Replies | 600 Views | Created by nrln - Wednesday, March 22, 2017 4:37 PM | Last reply by JCurry - Wednesday, March 22, 2017 8:21 PM
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    What is the lifetime of an Server ID in the EAS protocol?

    Open Specifications
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    Exchange Server Protocols
    This question is about section 2.2.3.155 of the MS-ASCMD documentation. Specifically, the GetHierarchy command in section 2.2.3.155.5. provides some information ...
    Answered | 6 Replies | 762 Views | Created by crashwrite - Tuesday, February 14, 2017 4:34 PM | Last reply by crashwrite - Friday, March 17, 2017 11:21 PM
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    Mail bodies, declared as code page 50220 but does not seem to be that encoding

    Open Specifications
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    Exchange Server Protocols
    I ran across something in MAPI email data which I don't fully understand. The application which appears to have created the data is MS Outlook itself. We received it in MSG ...
    Answered | 8 Replies | 716 Views | Created by Trejkaz - Thursday, February 16, 2017 6:03 AM | Last reply by JCurry - Wednesday, March 15, 2017 8:45 PM
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    Exchange Server Protocols Release Notes — February, 2017

    Open Specifications
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    Exchange Server Protocols
    These notes cover the Exchange Server Protocols releases in December, January, and February, which included bug fixes, ActiveSync 16.1, and a variety of other updates for the following ...
    Discussion | 0 Replies | 529 Views | Created by Tom Jebo - Monday, March 13, 2017 4:44 PM
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    How to get the server Sync size limit?

    Open Specifications
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    Exchange Server Protocols
    In response to a Sync command, server can return status 4 when number of elements exceed the limit.  The limit is configurable. Reference: ...
    Answered | 4 Replies | 744 Views | Created by KwokLeungCheung - Monday, January 30, 2017 11:27 AM | Last reply by KwokLeungCheung - Tuesday, February 28, 2017 11:04 AM
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    Office 365 Hybrid setup

    Open Specifications
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    Exchange Server Protocols
    Hi, Just a couple of quick questions.  We and exchange 2010sp3 server doing all the roles, I have configured the 365 tennance and DirSync, firstly do I need ADFS ?? or will it ...
    Answered | 1 Replies | 558 Views | Created by DuncanMC35 - Tuesday, January 10, 2017 4:52 PM | Last reply by Edgar A Olougouna - Tuesday, January 10, 2017 8:24 PM
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    how to add email to blocked senders list using C++ Extended MAPI

    Open Specifications
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    Exchange Server Protocols
    We are able to access the junk email rule using the PidTagExtendedRuleMessageCondition property of Extended MAPI but unable to modify it to add a email id to blocked senders ...
    Answered | 1 Replies | 622 Views | Created by Prasoona - Tuesday, December 27, 2016 9:56 AM | Last reply by Will Gregg - Tuesday, December 27, 2016 7:26 PM
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    Exchange Server Protocols Release Notes — November, 2016

    Open Specifications
     > 
    Exchange Server Protocols
    These notes cover the Exchange Server Protocols releases in September and October, which included bug fixes and a variety of other updates for the following documents. In addition, the entire Exchange ...
    Discussion | 0 Replies | 643 Views | Created by Tom Jebo - Monday, December 05, 2016 6:36 PM
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    RopReadRecipients Response

    Open Specifications
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    Exchange Server Protocols
    Hello, I'm having trouble handling the RopReadRecipients response. The response contains a RecipientRow as specified in [MS-OXCDATA] section 2.8.3. OXCDATA ...
    Proposed | 6 Replies | 690 Views | Created by Andrew Luitink - Wednesday, November 23, 2016 11:26 PM | Last reply by Tarun Chopra - MSFT - Wednesday, November 30, 2016 6:47 AM
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    What does CommandFrequency mean with respect to EAS throttling?

    Open Specifications
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    Exchange Server Protocols
    Hi all, I have an app that has been successfully accessing Office365 using Exchange ActiveSync in the same manner for a couple of years. Recently, however, the ...
    Answered | 12 Replies | 4201 Views | Created by crashwrite - Sunday, May 26, 2013 2:05 PM | Last reply by Obaid Farooqi - Tuesday, November 29, 2016 4:54 PM
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    MS-OXCDATA PropertyName NameSize

    Open Specifications
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    Exchange Server Protocols
    I feel section 2.6.1 could be enhanced to say that the NameSize is the size of the Name field including the two terminating NULL characters.
    Discussion | 3 Replies | 610 Views | Created by Andrew Luitink - Thursday, November 24, 2016 8:34 PM | Last reply by Tarun Chopra - MSFT - Tuesday, November 29, 2016 12:48 AM
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Announcement: 4

Exchange Server Protocols announcement

  • Link
    MSDN Exchange Release Notes — September 14, 2015
    Michelle Hammond Tuesday, September 22, 2015 11:12 PM

    The September 2015 release contains updates made to the Microsoft Exchange Server Protocols and Standards documents in relation to the release of Exchange Server 2016. 

    Exchange Server Protocol Documents links

    • Landing Page: Exchange Server Protocols
    • Full documentation set (ZIP) – Microsoft Exchange Server Protocols Documentation

    Exchange Server and Outlook Standards links

    • Landing Page: Exchange Server and Outlook Standards Support
    • Full documentation set (ZIP) – Microsoft Exchange Server and Outlook Standards Documentation

    The following new specifications have been added:

    • [MS-OXWSOLPS]: Online Personal Search Web Service Protocol
      Note that for the Exchange Server 2016 Preview release, this document was published as “[MS-OLPS]: Online Personal Search Protocol.” The title and short name published with the current release are final and should be used exclusively to refer to this document from now on.

    The following protocols have been archived:

    • None.

    The following known issues exist in this release:

    • None.
  • Link
    Exchange Server Protocol Test Suites Release -- November 2012
    Tom Devey - MSFT Monday, November 05, 2012 10:31 PM

    The Office Interoperability team is pleased to announce the release of the Exchange Server Protocol Test Suites. The test suites are designed in a client-to-server relationship and were originally developed for the in-house testing of the Microsoft Open Specifications. The test suites have been used extensively during Plugfests and Interoperability Labs to test partner implementations and are now available on MSConnect for public download. Test suites test the server-side implementation of the Open Specification protocol, as specified in Open Specification documentation, by acting as a synthetic client.

    Currently the Exchange Server Protocol Test Suites support the ten RPC based Exchange protocols listed in the table below. Want to learn more about the Test Suites? You can watch a video from one of our recent events that provides an overview of what is included in the test suite package. As always, if you have any questions or issues please reach out to the support team in this forum or through Email at dochelp (at) microsoft (dot) com.

    Download
    The Test Suites are openly available (with Microsoft account) on MSConnect and are contained within the “Microsoft Open Specifications Test Tools” program. All you need to do is to simply "join" the program and go to the downloads page to get access.

    Exchange Protocol Test Suites Supported Protocols
    [MS-OXCFOLD]: Folder Object Protocol Specification
    [MS-OXCFXICS]: Bulk Data Transfer Protocol Specification
    [MS-OXCMSG]: Message and Attachment Object Protocol Specification
    [MS-OXCPERM]: Exchange Access and Operation Permissions Protocol Specification
    [MS-OXCPRPT]: Property and Stream Object Protocol Specification
    [MS-OXCROPS]: Remote Operations (ROP) List and Encoding Protocol Specification
    [MS-OXCRPC]: Wire Format Protocol Specification
    [MS-OXCSTOR]: Store Object Protocol Specification
    [MS-OXCTABL]: Table Object Protocol Specification
    [MS-OXORULE]: E-Mail Rules Protocol Specification




  • Link
    Microsoft Exchange RPC Extractor (RPX) version 1.0 is available for download
    Tom Devey - MSFT Friday, February 11, 2011 11:15 PM

    The Microsoft Exchange RPC Extractor (RPX) is a command-line tool that can parse network captures and interpret remote procedure calls made from a client to Microsoft Exchange . RPX uses the information provided in the Microsoft Exchange protocol documentation to parse RPCs, remote operations (ROPs), and the parameters for each ROP.

    Download is available at the Microsoft Download Center found here.

  • Link
    Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Documentation
    Tom Devey - MSFT Thursday, April 16, 2009 10:20 PM

    Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Protocol Documentation

     

    The Microsoft Exchange Server protocols documentation provides detailed technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols (including extensions to industry-standard or other published protocols) used by Microsoft Exchange Server to communicate with other Microsoft products.

     

    Click here to go to the download page for the Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 protocol documentation PDF files.

     

    Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Standards Documentation

     

    The Exchange Server Standards Documents describe Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 support for industry messaging standards and Requests for Comments (RFCs) related to iCalendar, IMAP4, and POP3.

     

    Click here to go to the download page for the Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Standards Documentation PDF files.


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