Category Archives: Outlook

Create a calendar item

Posted on Monday 12 September 2011 by richardsiddaway

Continuing the occasional look at Outlook automation its time to see how we create a calendar item function new-calendaritem { param ( [string]$mailbox, [datetime]$start, [datetime]$end, [string]$subject, [string]$location, [string]$body ) $outlook = New-Object -ComObject Outlook.Application $folder = get-mailfolders | where {$_.Path … Continue reading →

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Outlook: removing calendar entries

Posted on Thursday 25 August 2011 by richardsiddaway

We recently looked at dumping the Calendar entries http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2011/08/23/outlook-viewing-calendar-entries.aspx   I usually leave entries to build up in the Calendar but a simple clean operation is to delete everything that occurred before a certain date function remove-calendaritem { param ( … Continue reading →

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Outlook: Viewing Calendar Entries

Posted on Tuesday 23 August 2011 by richardsiddaway

We have seen how to view emails – this is how to view items in your calendar function get-calendaritem { $outlook = New-Object -ComObject Outlook.Application get-mailfolders | where {$_.Path -like “*calendar*” -and $_.Path -notlike “*birthday*”} | foreach { $targetfolder = … Continue reading →

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Outlook: sending emails

Posted on Monday 8 August 2011 by richardsiddaway

We’ve looked at examining the email folders and their contents, as well as cleaning out old emails. Its time to look at sending emails. This function shows the skeleton of the process function send-mailitem { param ( [string]$to, [string]$from, [string]$subject, … Continue reading →

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Outlook: deleting mail items

Posted on Thursday 4 August 2011 by richardsiddaway

As promised here is the function to delete mail items in a specific folder function remove-mailitem { [CmdletBinding(SupportsShouldProcess=$true)] param ( [parameter(Mandatory=$true)] [string]$mailfolder, [datetime]$start, [datetime]$finish ) if ($start -and $finish){ if ($start -ge $finish){Throw “Finish $($finish) before Start $($start)”} } $outlook … Continue reading →

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Outlook: Viewing mail items

Posted on Thursday 4 August 2011 by richardsiddaway

Continuing our perambulation around Outlook when used with multiple hotmail accounts its time to look at the other folders and the mail items they contain. This post will show how to view the mail items and a future post will … Continue reading →

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Clearing junk mail

Posted on Tuesday 2 August 2011 by richardsiddaway

Getting back to looking at working with Outlook we can adapt the function used to deleted the contents of the Deleted Items folder to work with the Junk mail folders function clear-junkmail { $outlook = New-Object -ComObject Outlook.Application get-mailitemcount -junk … Continue reading →

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Outlook folder item count revisited

Posted on Monday 1 August 2011 by richardsiddaway

I started this series http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2011/07/30/outlook-connector-amp-mail-folder-item-count.aspx by looking at how we could enumerate the mail folders in Outlook 2010 when I had had four hotmail accounts open.  The function has been modified since then function get-mailitemcount { param ( [parameter(ParameterSetName=”All”)] [switch]$all, … Continue reading →

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Emptying the Deleted folders–version 2

Posted on Monday 1 August 2011 by richardsiddaway

The original version of this function only did one pass at deleting and had to iterate through all of the folders to find the Deleted Items folder.  This time we use the collection of folders we created using the get-mailfolders … Continue reading →

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Outlook folders

Posted on Sunday 31 July 2011 by richardsiddaway

The functions we’ve seen so far have involved iterating through the whole set of Outlook folders. That’s a lot of folders (I have 4 email accounts with lost of folders). The trick is to do this just once and then … Continue reading →

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