create server side rule for printing

[Chris]

I need to create a server side rule for a mailbox which will do check the
subject for incoming message. If it says "print it", then print to a
specific printer. The difficult part is printing. Since it's a server side
rule I don't want it to use printer mapping related to any specific user
profile on the server. I'm thinking to customize the rule so it will call
the printer driver located on the server local drive. Then print either to a
IP or shared name. How to do that?

Thanks,

 

[Dmitry Streblechenko]

You cannot print from a server side rule; printing can only be done locally
from a local rule.

Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
http://www.dimastr.com/
OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO
and MAPI Developer Tool

 

[Chris]

I was testing a software MAPILab. I installed on a server. Once done it
created an entry under Tools in ESM. Then it let me create serve side rule.
One option is to print. I created a printer locally on the server and
MAPILab was able to pick it up. Do you think it's still a client side rule?
I know the print setting is locally on the server. But the rule should be
server side, right? Of course, if the printer setting was gone then the rule
won't work. Please advice.

 

[Dmitry Streblechenko]

You then really need to contact the vendor.
Server side rule in MAPI referes not to a particular machine where the rule
is defined, but by whether it is ran by the Exchange server itself or by
some client piece of software (such as Outlook itself) when it processes a
deferred action message created by the Exchange server rule.

Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
http://www.dimastr.com/
OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO
and MAPI Developer Tool

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

My guess is that it's not an Outlook rule but an Exchange event script or event sink -- not related to Outlook at all. The fact that ESM is involved points in that direction.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Chris]

I think that could be the case. I also found another tool -- Inboxrules for
Exchange. Have you heard of that? It's also for creating server side rules
but I guess it could be a the same thing.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Yes, AFAIK, that is also a server application, not an Outlook program.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers