Powershell script using CDOEX to retrieve appointment info from an exchange 2003 database?

Question

Thank you for taking the time to read this. The original post will be retained below, but I -think- I have a better way to phrase my question.

How do I re-write this powershell script which grabs appointment info from Outlook:

Add-type -assembly "Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook" | out-null
 $olFolders = "Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlDefaultFolders" -as [type] 
 $outlook = new-object -comobject outlook.application
 $namespace = $outlook.GetNameSpace("MAPI")
 $folder = $namespace.getDefaultFolder($olFolders::olFolderCalendar)
 $folder.items |
 Select-Object -Property Subject, Start, Duration, Location, Body

into something that uses CDOEX and does the same thing, but for all users? Thank you.

-------Original Question: --------- I recently wrote a powershell script that grabs info from an Outlook calendar and generates a reminder email based on the info it finds. The script works beautifully, and then my boss tells me that it has to instead pull this info from an Exchange database and not Outlook. The script will be running directly on the exchange server, and will not need remote access.

Are there exchange com objects (Full disclosure, I know the term "com object" but I have little idea what they are) for exchange like their are for outlook or is as simple as pulling the info from a generic database that would happen to work for an exchange server?

As far as I'm aware, it will most likely be running in Powershell 1 and exchange server 2003. Please feel free to point me to any relevant websites where I can find this myself if need be. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

-Josh

Answer 1

look into exchange web services. You can use it to connect to mailboxes and read calendar entries. then do stuff.