MAPI : When we try to access Public Folder via ASP application throws MAPI_E_FAILONEPROVIDER

Recently one of my customer updated that they get an different issue with their ASP application. This application running on their Web server that uses MAPI to read the Contacts folder in the Public Folders from Exchange Server 2003 SP2 machine. The user can retrieve his email in outlook and browse the public folders as he is used to, but when this user want to use the ASP page that reads the public folder he fails.

Customer receives the following error:

bstrPublicRootID = objInfoStore.Fields.Item(&H66310102).Value
Error Description: [Collaboration Data Objects – [MAPI_E_FAILONEPROVIDER(8004011D)]]
number: –2147221219
Source: Collaboration Data Objects

During the the troubleshooting, we found that the customer tries to read the contacts in public folders. Customer try to gain programmatic access to Public Folders by assigning the folders collection to an object. Customer cannot gain programmatic access to a public folder from an ASP by stepping through the tree. To do this, certainly the customer needs to use GetFolder, which in turn requires him to know what the RootID of the Public Folder.

So we recommend customer to make use of MAPI property tag (example: bstrPublicRootID = objInfoStore.Fields.Item( &H66310102 ).Value) to get the root ID of the Public Folders, which resolved the issue.

Also in couple of earlier such scenario’s we found this error might happen due to one of the following:

You might don’t have permissions: You are trying to access a mailbox that the ASP does not have proper permission for.Check to make sure the ASP is being authenticated into the account you want. Insert this line into your VBScript to find out what account the ASP is running in:

Response.Write("You are logged on as " & Request.ServerVariables("LOGON_USER") & "<br>")

If you are logged in under the anonymous account, you will receive a blank string back.

You might be using Incompatible browser: You are using "NT Challenge Response" as your authentication type, and Netscape Navigator for your browser. Netscape Navigator does not support "NT Challenge Response" as an authentication option. In order to log onto a user’s Exchange account, the IIS authentication needs to be set up as "Basic (Clear Text)".

For a safer side, you need to make sure that you don’t have Exchange Server 2003 and Outlook 2003 in the same box.

Happy Programming!!

Error Code : List of ASP Error Codes & its description

When i was searching for Classic ASP (not ASP.Net) related error code, i found the related information. Please find the list of ASP error codes that may be returned while an Active Server Pages (ASP) page is processing. This may vary depending on the version of Internet Information Services (IIS) that you use. This applies to IIS 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 & 6.0.

ASP error code	Description
ASP 0100	Out of memory
ASP 0101	Unexpected error
ASP 0102	Expecting string input
ASP 0103	Expecting numeric input
ASP 0104	Operation not Allowed
ASP 0105	Index out of range
ASP 0106	Type Mismatch
ASP 0107	Stack Overflow
ASP 0108	Create object failed
ASP 0109	Member not found
ASP 0110	Unknown name
ASP 0111	Unknown interface
ASP 0112	Missing parameter
ASP 0113	Script timed out
ASP 0114	Object not free threaded
ASP 0115	Unexpected error
ASP 0116	Missing close of script delimiter
ASP 0117	Missing close of script tag
ASP 0118	Missing close of object tag
ASP 0119	Missing Classid or Progid attribute
ASP 0120	Invalid Runat attribute
ASP 0121	Invalid Scope in object tag
ASP 0122	Invalid Scope in object tag
ASP 0123	Missing Id attribute
ASP 0124	Missing Language attribute
ASP 0125	Missing close of attribute
ASP 0126	Include file not found
ASP 0127	Missing close of HTML comment
ASP 0128	Missing File or Virtual attribute
ASP 0129	Unknown scripting language
ASP 0130	Invalid File attribute
ASP 0131	Disallowed Parent Path
ASP 0132	Compilation Error
ASP 0133	Invalid ClassID attribute
ASP 0134	Invalid ProgID attribute
ASP 0135	Cyclic Include
ASP 0136	Invalid object instance name
ASP 0137	Invalid Global Script
ASP 0138	Nested Script Block
ASP 0139	Nested Object
ASP 0140	Page Command Out Of Order
ASP 0141	Page Command Repeated
ASP 0142	Thread token error
ASP 0143	Invalid Application Name
ASP 0144	Initialization Error
ASP 0145	New Application Failed
ASP 0146	New Session Failed
ASP 0147	500 Server Error
ASP 0148	Server Too Busy
ASP 0149	Application Restarting
ASP 0150	Application Directory Error
ASP 0151	Change Notification Error
ASP 0152	Security Error
ASP 0153	Thread Error
ASP 0154	Write HTTP Header Error
ASP 0155	Write Page Content Error
ASP 0156	Header Error
ASP 0157	Buffering On
ASP 0158	Missing URL
ASP 0159	Buffering Off
ASP 0160	Logging Failure
ASP 0161	Data Type Error
ASP 0162	Cannot Modify Cookie
ASP 0163	Invalid Comma Use
ASP 0164	Invalid TimeOut Value
ASP 0165	SessionID Error
ASP 0166	Uninitialized Object
ASP 0167	Session Initialization Error
ASP 0168	Disallowed object use
ASP 0169	Missing object information
ASP 0170	Delete Session Error
ASP 0171	Missing Path
ASP 0172	Invalid Path
ASP 0173	Invalid Path Character
ASP 0174	Invalid Path Character(s)
ASP 0175	Disallowed Path Characters
ASP 0176	Path Not Found
ASP 0177	Server.CreateObject Failed
ASP 0178	Server.CreateObject Access Error
ASP 0179	Application Initialization Error
ASP 0180	Disallowed object use
ASP 0181	Invalid threading model
ASP 0182	Missing object information
ASP 0183	Empty Cookie Key
ASP 0184	Missing Cookie Name
ASP 0185	Missing Default Property
ASP 0186	Error parsing certificate
ASP 0187	Object addition conflict
ASP 0188	Disallowed object use
ASP 0189	Disallowed object use
ASP 0190	Unexpected error
ASP 0191	Unexpected error
ASP 0192	Unexpected error
ASP 0193	OnStartPage Failed
ASP 0194	OnEndPage Failed
ASP 0195	Invalid Server Method Call
ASP 0196	Cannot launch out of process component
ASP 0197	Disallowed object use
ASP 0198	Server shutting down
ASP 0199	Disallowed object use
ASP 0200	Out of Range ‘Expires’ attribute
ASP 0201	Invalid Default Script Language
ASP 0202	Missing Code Page
ASP 0203	Invalid Code Page
ASP 0204	Invalid CodePage Value
ASP 0205	Change Notification
ASP 0206	Cannot call BinaryRead
ASP 0207	Cannot use Request.Form
ASP 0208	Cannot use generic Request collection
ASP 0209	Illegal value for TRANSACTION property
ASP 0210	Method not implemented
ASP 0211	Object out of scope
ASP 0212	Cannot Clear Buffer
ASP 0214	Invalid Path parameter
ASP 0215	Illegal value for ENABLESESSIONSTATE property
ASP 0216	MSDTC Service not running
ASP 0217	Invalid Scope in object tag
ASP 0218	Missing LCID
ASP 0219	Invalid LCID
ASP 0220	Requests for GLOBAL.ASA Not Allowed
ASP 0221	Invalid @ Command directive
ASP 0222	Invalid TypeLib Specification
ASP 0223	TypeLib Not Found
ASP 0224	Cannot load TypeLib
ASP 0225	Cannot wrap TypeLibs
ASP 0226	Cannot modify StaticObjects
ASP 0227	Server.Execute Failed
ASP 0228	Server.Execute Error
ASP 0229	Server.Transfer Failed
ASP 0230	Server.Transfer Error
ASP 0231	Server.Execute Error
ASP 0232	Invalid Cookie Specification
ASP 0233	Cannot load cookie script source
ASP 0234	Invalid include directive
ASP 0235	Server.Transfer Error
ASP 0236	Invalid Cookie Specification
ASP 0237	Invalid Cookie Specification
ASP 0238	Missing attribute value
ASP 0239	Cannot process file
ASP 0240	Script Engine Exception
ASP 0241	CreateObject Exception
ASP 0242	Query OnStartPage Interface Exception
ASP 0243	Invalid METADATA tag in Global.asa
ASP 0244	Cannot Enable Session State
ASP 0245	Mixed usage of Code Page values
ASP 0246	Too many concurrent users. Please try again later.
ASP 0247	Bad Argument to BinaryRead.
ASP 0248	Script isn’t transacted. This ASP file must be transacted in order to use the ObjectContext object.
ASP 0249	Cannot use IStream on Request. Cannot use IStream on Request object after using Request.Form collection or Request.BinaryRead.
ASP 0250	Invalid Default Code Page. The default code page specified for this application is invalid.
ASP 0251	Response Buffer Limit Exceeded. Execution of the ASP page caused the Response Buffer to exceed its configured limit.

Unicode mails send using CDOSYS & Bodypart show special or funny characters in message body

Recently I was working with a Customer who uses ASP & CDOSYS to send Unicode content e-mails. He had the following partial code-snippet:

...

Set objMail = Server.CreateObject("CDO.Message") 'Create CDO.Message Object

Set objBodyPart = objmail.BodyPart 'Create BodyPart

objBodyPart.Charset = "UTF-8" 'Set relevant Charset

Set objConf = Server.CreateObject("CDO.Configuration") 'Create Configuration Object

Set objFields = objConf.Fields 'and set its Configuration fields

With objFields 

.Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing") = 2 'Send using port or pickup

.Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver") = "localhost" 'Specify SMTPServer

.Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpconnectiontimeout") = 20 'Specify timeout

.Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserverport") = 25 'Specify the port

.Update 'Update the Configuration

End With 

With objMail 

Set .Configuration = objConf 'Set the configuration object

.From = email 'Set From users

.To = Trim(recip) 'Set recipients

.Subject = subject 'Set the subject

.TextBody = txString 'txtString contains the unicode chars

End With 

objMail.Send 'Send

'Release the objects

Set objFields = Nothing 

Set objConf = Nothing 

Set objMail = Nothing 

...

.csharpcode, .csharpcode pre
{
font-size: small;
color: black;
font-family: consolas, “Courier New”, courier, monospace;
background-color: #ffffff;
/*white-space: pre;*/
}
.csharpcode pre { margin: 0em; }
.csharpcode .rem { color: #008000; }
.csharpcode .kwrd { color: #0000ff; }
.csharpcode .str { color: #006080; }
.csharpcode .op { color: #0000c0; }
.csharpcode .preproc { color: #cc6633; }
.csharpcode .asp { background-color: #ffff00; }
.csharpcode .html { color: #800000; }
.csharpcode .attr { color: #ff0000; }
.csharpcode .alt
{
background-color: #f4f4f4;
width: 100%;
margin: 0em;
}
.csharpcode .lnum { color: #606060; }

But he updated that he can display the information correctly in a web browser using UTF-8 encoding on the web page; But whenever he send the information

via email the Unicode values in the message body show the "special or funny" characters.He also tried setting the charset for the email but it doesn’t made any difference.

When we started troubleshooting we found that we need to set the HTMLBodyPart and TextBodyPart Charset in the above code, which resolved the issue.