OWA 2007 recent recipients and OWA 2010 nicknames

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Hi, we recently upgraded from Exchange Server 2007 to Exchange Server 2010, which included an upgrade to OWA. Many of our webmail users relied on the recent recipients feature of the previous version and had a lot of email addresses that they now no longer can get to.

Does anyone know where they were stored in the previous version? If I can find them, I can do a number of things to bring them forward such as adding them to the user's contacts or even just printing them out.

I like the fact that Outlook 2010 will handle this more comprehensively. Right now most of our users are on 2003 and 2007 and I still have to move NK2 files around, but at least these are accessible. Our webmail folks are kind of stuck because of this though. Hopefully people have some suggestions on where to retrieve this info.

Todd Fiske
 
AFAIK, they are stored in the mailbox for OWA's use. (Outlook 2010 stores them in the mailbox too - and it has suggested contacts so users won't lose their "address book" if the autocomplete cache is cleared.)




I know of no way to get the addresses our of the mailbox, short of adding them to a message so you can create a contact. But i will double check on this.




If they have the contact, you can prepopulate the list in Outlook by addressing a message to all contacts then closing it.
 
That is very helpful, thank you!




There may not be a direct recovery or migration capability, but if I can even extract them in whatever format, I can convert it to something usable for our staff.




I found the MAPI Editor tool that he mentions listed elsewhere. The mailbox database from our previous Exchange 2007 server is gone, but I should be able to restore an older copy from a backup tape. Then I may be able to dig into it and find these people's contacts.




You at least gave me a direction to keep searching in, and hope that this is possible. Thank you very much!
 
According to Dmitry Streblechenko:

"RDO can read nicknames from the store. http://www.dimastr.com/redemption/rdo/rdonicknames.htm



I guess you can always save the autocomplete hidden message (IPM.Configuration.AutoComplete) from the Inbox as an MSG file and then import it back to the target folder."
(For OWA, its called IPM.Configuration.OWA.AutocompleteCache according to the other link.)
 
i wrote c# code to do this directly without RDO:

using System;

using System.Collections;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.IO;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using System.Xml;

using Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data;

> ..

// provide work email, password, owa url as "https://owa.yourcompany.com"
public static SortedList<string, string> GetOutlookContactsRecent(string workEmail, string password,
string owaUrl)
{
// get proper exchange version:
ExchangeService service = null;
Folder root = null;
foreach (ExchangeVersion ev in Enum.GetValues(typeof (ExchangeVersion)))
{
// works for Exchange2007_SP1 as well, but returns incorrect emails... restrict to Exchange2010
if (ev != ExchangeVersion.Exchange2010)
continue;
try
{
service = new ExchangeService(ev)
{
Credentials = new WebCredentials(workEmail, password),
Url = new Uri(owaUrl),
};
service.AutodiscoverUrl(workEmail, url => true);
root = Folder.Bind(service, WellKnownFolderName.Root);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{

if (ex.Message.Contains("Autodiscover"))
{
string domain = workEmail.Split('@')[1];
// autoDiscoverCheckUrl1 https://yourcompany.com/AutoDiscover/AutoDiscover.xml
string auto1 = string.Format("https://autodiscover.{0}/AutoDiscover/AutoDiscover.xml", domain);
string auto2 = auto1.Replace("//autodiscover.", "//");

Console.WriteLine("check autodiscover connectivity \n\t" + auto1 + "\n or \n\t" + auto2);
}

}

}
if (root == null) return null;
// private contacts, not Global Address Book
var lst = new SortedList<string, string>();

try
{
// IPM.Configuration.OWa.AutocompleteCache
var owaAutocompleteCache = UserConfiguration.Bind(service, "OWA.AutocompleteCache",
root.ParentFolderId, UserConfigurationProperties.All);
var doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load(new MemoryStream(owaAutocompleteCache.XmlData));
var nlist = doc.SelectNodes("//entry");
if (nlist == null) return lst;
foreach (XmlElement v in nlist)
{
if (v == null) continue;
var ndName = v.SelectSingleNode("@displayName");
var ndEmail = v.SelectSingleNode("@smtpAddr");
if (ndName != null && ndEmail != null)
lst.Add(ndName.Value, ndEmail.Value);
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Console.WriteLine(ex);
}
return lst;
}
 
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