Special Case of Hiding Folders

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Sanjay Singh - 19 Jul 2006 23:31 GMT

I am new to MS Exchange and wonder if the following is possible.

I want to create an Exchange folder that will store some settings that my
Outlook addin will read. However I do not want the user to actually see the
folder in Outlook (so that he does not go into the folder and make changes
manually).

That is ...

1) User will have permissions to the folder so that my code can read and
write from the folder but ...
2) User will not be able to actually see the folder from Outlook.

Hope that makes sense.

Thanks in advance for any pointers.

Regards
Sanjay

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Tom Rizzo [MSFT] - 05 Aug 2006 20:02 GMT

You could do this via MAPI. With CDO, you can create hidden messages in the
root of the mailbox or another folder which may solve your problem.

Grab the offline free/busy sample from my book linked below. I use hidden
messages to store configuration since you may run the add-in from multiple
machines.

Tom

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>I am new to MS Exchange and wonder if the following is possible.
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> Regards
> Sanjay

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