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How to return a user's unread mail count from an Exchange inbox?

I am involved in writing a little internal SharePoint portal for our company. I thought it would be a 'quick win' to get create a web part that would display the user's unread mail count, and possibly a list of today's calendar tasks. However, I have had a hunt around for information to do with OWA web services stuff and I can see no easy way of doing this.

Am I being stupid, is there a simple call you can make? If not what would my first steps be in order to achieve what I want?

Thanks!

Solution

  • If they're using Exchange 2007, you can use Exchange web services to query the inbox.

    Here's the reference in MSDN. The FindFolder operation will return the unread count of a folder. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb204119.aspx

    Visual Studio can generate the proxy classes for you to help you get started: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb408522.aspx