I have addin developed for outlook 2010. on some event i get the store id of the folder, which I believe addin is getting from exchange as exchange store folders information,Now from folder id I try to convert the user information by converting hexadecimal string into a string, as expected its giving me information in the format.
from here i can grab the user name and can do my operation, this works well in out environment and some of the clients as well. for one of the client the user name is coming differently.
the actual user name who is having this issue is Pawan Gupta, but processing folder id is giving UKPGC as user name, to investigate it further they have given this reply.
globally we have a concept of Concern Wide ID – you are assigned this on joining and it stays with you forever. This includes it being the most distinguished part of the CN of your AD account (which is where Exchange will be pulling info from eventually) and your ‘pre Windows 2000 Login’ .. Most of our users will login in DOMAIN\CWID manner, NTLM style login so if there is a local query on an env variable, or if the LDAP query is something other than ‘email address’ field of the AD it’ll likely get the 5 char accout name rather than the email address. ‘User Logon name’ should also return pl.gi@xyz.com in this instance.
I am not a exchange expert, so do not know what exactly they are doing and what information is missing in AD account of above specified user and wht they should put instead. Please let me know if this is some limitation of using folder id to get the owner/displayname of the folder.
Thanks
Nitin