Brief Description of Some EDK Interfaces and Functions

The list of EDK interfaces is relatively short:

• IExchangeExportChanges - implements exporting of incremental changes from an information store.
• IExchangeFavorites - can add to and delete folders from user's Favorites folder.
• IExchangeFolderACLs - can handle public folder access control lists.
• IExchangeFolderRules - can handle public folder rules.
• IExchangeImportContentsChanges - implements incremental imports of contents changes into an information store.
• IExchangeImportHierarchyChanges - implements incremental imports of hierarchy changes into an information store.
• IExchangeManageStore - manages folders and mailboxes in an information store.
• IExchangeModifyTable - implements access to Microsoft Exchange Server table objects, such as public folder ACLs.
• IExchangeRuleAction, IExchangeRuleExt, and IExchangeRuleExtCallback implement custom actions on messages.

• Functions that simplify some MAPI tasks, such as HrMAPICopyMessage, HrMAPIDeleteMessage, HrMAPIFindFolderEx, HrMAPIFindInbox, HrMAPICreateAddressList, HrMAPIAppendAddressList, HrMAPIFindMsgByProp, HrMAPIWriteAttachmentToFile, etc.
• Installation and configuration functions such as DAPIGetSiteInfo, HrEnumOrganizations, HrEnumSites, HrEnumContainers, HrCreateGatewayProfile, HrGetServiceExecutableName, HrGetServiceSiteDN, HrInstallGateway, etc.
• Exchange Server Directory Access functions (DAPI) such as DAPIRead, DAPIWrite, BatchExport, etc.
• Functions that help to back up and restore Exchange Server data, such as HrBackupPrepare, HrBackupRead, etc.
• Gateway related functions such as HrGWLogon, GetGWMtsInFolder, GetAddrBookPtr, GetGWDefaultStore, GetGWExchangeServerName, GetGWGal, etc.
• Functions that perform message conversions, such as HrConvConvert, HrConvInitInstance, etc.
• Winwrap functions such as HrServiceGetArgv, HrServiceGetName, etc.
• Functions related to rules such as HrCopyActions, etc.
• Proxy address generation functions such as RcGenerateProxy, RcValidateProxy, FreeProxy, CloseProxies, etc.
• Exchange Administrator extension functions to provide custom dialogs built into Exchange Administrator such as ADMIN_Initialize and others.
• Miscellaneous functions, such as FHasAdminPrivs (determines whether a user is an administrator), FIsPublicStore (determines whether information store is public), FIsService (determines whether an application runs as a Windows NT service), HrFindExchangeGlobalAddressList (finds Exchange GAL), HrGetMailboxDN (obtains distinguished name for mailbox), HrGetPropTagName (obtains property tag name as a string), HrSendProgManCommand (sends commands to Program Manager), HrRTFCompressesToText (converts message body form compressed RTF to ANSI text), etc.