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Using ColdFusion 8 with Microsoft Exchange Server


Scott Stroz

Scott Stroz

Alagad

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Setting up Exchange Server
  3. Connecting to an Exchange server
  4. Retrieving Items From Exchange
  5. Creating and Editing Exchange Items
Created:
5 November 2007
User Level:
Intermediate
Products:
ColdFusion

Microsoft Exchange Server is used by businesses for e-mail messaging, calendar scheduling, and contacts and tasks management. Adobe ColdFusion 8, with a new library of tags, gives you the ability to access, retrieve, create, and modify this information quickly, easily, and without having to learn Lightweight Data Access Protocol (LDAP).

This article uses the new cfexchange tags in Adobe ColdFusion 8 to demonstrate how to:

  • Connect to an Exchange server
  • Retrieve a list of folders from an Exchange user's mailbox
  • Retrieve mail, contact, calendar, and task information
  • Create contacts, calendar events, and tasks
  • Modify existing contacts, calendar events, and tasks

Requirements

To make the most of this article, you need the following software and files:

Adobe ColdFusion 8

Microsoft Exchange Server

Prerequisites:

Some familiarity with Microsoft Exchange and ColdFusion tag syntax is useful.

Creative Commons License
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About the author

Scott Stroz is a Senior Software Architect at Alagad. He has been working with ColdFusion since version 5.0, and has been a Macromedia/Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer since ColdFusion MX. He has developed and fostered a passion for Flex 2 and is the author of Flogr, a Flex-based ColdFusion log reader. Scott is also a blogger and a frequent speaker at user groups and conferences on various Flex and ColdFusion topics.