Microsoft Exchange Server integration

Many organizations rely on Microsoft Exchange servers for their enterprise messaging, calendaring, contact list, and task management. Historically, ColdFusion® has been able to send and receive e-mail from Exchange servers, but other Exchange Server functions have not been accessible from ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML). Now in Adobe® ColdFusion 8 software, several new tags make it easy to interact with Microsoft Exchange servers — not only to send, get, and manage e-mail, but also to create, get, and manage calendar events, contacts, and tasks.

Microsoft Exchange Integration

E-mail messages, calendar events, contacts, and tasks can all be programmatically controlled with ColdFusion 8. With this new capability, you can:

Build a customized Exchange Server web client interface
View information about upcoming tasks
Create mailing lists based on contact entries
Automatically add tasks to users' task lists based on web application events
Dynamically schedule meetings and appointments
Show and manage meeting attendee availability
And much more

ColdFusion 8 also allows you to connect to an Exchange server with a persistent connection that lasts until you explicitly close it. Persistent connections allow you to use a single connection for multiple tasks, which saves the processing overhead of opening and closing a separate connection for each interaction with the Exchange server. These connections can also be stored in a ColdFusion persistent scope, like the application scope, for more convenient coding.

Microsoft Exchange Server integration

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