"Outlook Webmail Add-in for Windows Home Server"

Coding4Fun - Outlook Webmail Add-in for Windows Home Server

"Windows Home Server is a new product from Microsoft which allows home users to manage and share data, including photos, documents, videos, music, etc.  It also provides a very easy way to backup all computers on your home network to a central storage server.

Windows Home Server can also be extended via add-ins to enhance the experience and provide new and interesting functionality other than what comes in the box.

One feature not present in WHS that I would find useful is the ability to view my Outlook mail box from the web at any time.  I have 6 or 7 email accounts that are all setup to retrieve via POP3 to Outlook.  Most of these accounts do not support IMAP or have a web-based interface.  Therefore, Outlook is generally open all day and checking messages.  When I'm away from home for work or pleasure, it's very often inconvenient to have to remote desktop into the machine with Outlook running to read my email, so it would be nice to have a web-based version of my current Outlook folders so I can view all email (old and new) at any time simply by browsing to a web server at home.  Windows Home Server comes with Internet Information Services 6 (IIS6) and one can easily add a new web application to IIS on the server.

So, this article will attempt to show how to build a new web site using ASP.NET that can be added to your Windows Home Server installation that will allow one to view the Outlook folders running on whatever computer contains your current Outlook installation and message store.

If you wish to just use the application, download the sample from above and skip down to the deployment section for installation instructions.

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I don't have a Windows Home Server running (yet), but I'm pretty interested in it. Mostly due to its extensibility. This article a cool example of that...

This Coding4Fun project provides a working example of extending WHS, integrating with Outlook/MAPI, using WCF and wrapping it all up with an ASP.Net bow.

(via Brian Peek [MVP C#] - Outlook Webmail Add-in for Windows Home Server)