Important Synchronization Issues

It is important to understand dynamics of everything in Microsoft. This sometimes results in inconsistency or errors in documentation, poor quality of samples (such as non-compilable samples), and other related issues with a lot of frustration for developers in the end. It appears that Microsoft keeps changing fundamentals of their own products. Writing “know-how” about development for Exchange or any other Microsoft creation is in such circumstances difficult and will be inconsistent because of instability of the subject. What I hope, however, is to achieve at least temporary balance with the existing state of things so that at least code that you'll see here will be useful within existing scope of the product (MS Exchange server).

Examples of this inconsistency are numerous at the moment of this writing. For example, Microsoft Platform SDK documentation describes some functions with invalid number of parameters, such as HrInstallAddressType (described as taking 9 while in fact it takes 8). You may find references to a nonexistent “gwsetup” sample. If you obtain this sample from other sources you will be unable (most likely) to compile it. I hope that this is familiar to most of developers and my own material must be considered within exactly the same scope. This unfortunately means no guarantees of any kind.

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