Re: Alternative to reading public folders with WMI?

From: Andrew Gomes (andrewNOSPAMgomes_at_hotNOSPAMmail.com)
Date: 09/20/04 

Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 18:30:35 +1000

Hi Glen,

I will try this tomorrow and let the group know the results.

Thanks for the info - I had almost given up hope!

"Glen Scales [MVP]" <gscales@outlookexchange.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:ud%23N2ntnEHA.3900@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> If you want to speed up your WMI queries you should look at making the
> query
> Semi-Synchronous have a look at
> http://www.huntland.co.uk/Downloads/WMI/AsyncOperations.html which details
> what to do and why the current queries run so slow.
>
> There are other options to WMI depending on what you are trying to do, if
> your just want to list the names of the folder you can adapt the scripts
> used in the following KB
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;320071 .This gives
> you methods to a recursively do a shallow traversal of a folder hierarchy
> (fancy name for a mailbox) you just need to adapt it to instead point to
> the
> public folder tree and instead of working out the foldersize get it to
> output the folder name.
>
> Cheers
> Glen
>
> "Andrew Gomes" <andrewgomes@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:2qsavhF13lnvmU1@uni-berlin.de...
>> Does anyone know if there is an alternative to reading Exchange 2003
> public
>> folders with WMI?
>>
>> I am using WMI in VB.NET to read a list of public folders on an Exchange
>> 2003 server. My problem is that it is INCREDIBLY slow!!! It seems to
> reads
>> in chunks from the server with a long delay between "chunks." The other
>> problem is that the server has over 60,000 public folders! (So you can
>> imagine how long this takes!)
>>
>> Is there an alternative to WMI or does anyone know how to speed up the
>> WMI
>> query?
>>
>> Many thanks!
>>
>>
>
>

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