Exchange & Outlook®: Constructing Collaborative Solutions

Building the Folder Event Agent

For the client contacts to exist in SQL Server, some synchronization mechanism is required. In this case, synchronization is handled by a server-side folder event agent. Basically, any time a client contact is added, modified, or deleted from the Client Contacts folder, an event agent script ensures that the appropriate action is performed on the SQL Server Clients table.

Understanding How the Exchange Event Service Works

Let me take a moment to reflect on how the Exchange Event Service works. The Exchange Event Service is a Windows NT service. Functionally, however, the Event Service is responsible for querying an information store, stored on the Exchange Server, for information about all of the events that occurred, ...