Release Notes for Version 1.0.0 of the IBM WebSphere Business Integration Adapter for Microsoft Exchange Server

These release notes cover release information for version 1.0.0 of the IBM WebSphere Business Integration Adapter for Microsoft Exchange Server. They contain the following sections:
Features WebSphere Business Integration Adapters API and run time
Product compatibility Known problems and workarounds
Hardware and software requirements Documentation
Installation and configuration information

Note: Important information about this product may be available in Technical Support Flashes issued after these release notes were published. These can be found on the WebSphere Business Integration support Web site, http://www.ibm.com/websphere/integration/wbiserver/support. Select the component area of interest and search the flashes section.

Features

The Adapter for Microsoft Exchange Server runs in a Windows NT or Windows 2000 environment. It:

Refer to the Adapter for Microsoft Exchange Server User Guide for detailed information about the adapter and the new features.

Product compatibility

This version of the adapter requires WBIA.jar version 1.5.0 because it includes support for guaranteed event delivery (GED).

Hardware and software requirements

Hardware and software requirements are included in the product documentation. See Installation and configuration information for links to those guides.

Installation and configuration information

Whether you are installing the software from the CD or downloading it from Passport Advantage and installing it from a local directory, refer to the appropriate guide:

These guides also include general configuration information.

For hardware and software requirements and configuration information specific to this adapter, refer to the Adapter for Microsoft Exchange Server User Guide.

WebSphere Business Integration Adapters API and run time

Make sure that you run adapters with WebSphere Business Integration Adapters (WBIA) run-time version 1.5.0 or later.

Verifying the version of WBIA run time

To check the version of WBIA run time, locate the manifest file (ProductDir\lib\WBIA.jar) and open it in a suitable Java JAR editor. Look for the following lines:

Implementation-Title: "CWConnectorAPI"
Implementation-Version: 1.5.0
Implementation version indicates the current version of WBIA API.

If the version is not 1.5.0 or later, you must download the latest WBIA run time.

Downloading the WBIA run time

To download the latest version of the WBIA run time:

  1. Go to http://www.ibm.com.
  2. Click the Support and downloads tab.
  3. Under the Downloads heading, click All downloads & drivers.
  4. In the Enter search terms field, type "wbia api" and click Submit.

After you download and install the the run time, you should see the following files:

lib\WBIA.jar
lib\WBIA\3.0.0\WBIA.jar
lib\WBIA\4.0.0\WBIA.jar
lib\WBIA\4.1.1\WBIA.jar
bin\CWConnEnv.bat (Windows)
bin/CWConnEnv.sh (UNIX)
bin\CWODAEnv.bat (Windows)
bin/CWODAEnv.sh (UNIX)
connectors\messages\CwConnectorAgentMessages.txt

Known problems and workarounds

The following problems have been found in this release:

CR number Description
24651 When the connector agent tries to poll the event store, you are prompted with the following dialog box: "Microsoft Outlook - A program is trying to access e-mail addresses you have stored in Outlook. Do you want to allow this? If this is unexpected, it may be a virus and you should choose "No"."

This occurs if you installed the Outlook e-mail security patch. This patch does not allow third-party applications to use Outlook without the permission of the user.

There is no known workaround for this problem. You must click "Yes" to allow the connector agent to poll the event store.

24657 When you update an item in Outlook that has been created by a service call request, no event is triggered, even though there is an event sink for the updated item. This occurs if the GUID of the connector agent user is not properly set in the Event Listener configuration file (BIA_Exchange.ini), and if CwEventUsername or CwAgentUsername or both match the name of the connector agent user.

When you update the item in Outlook, Exchange reports an event to the Event Listener, passing the Outlook user's GUID and the item's SENDERNAME. If the GUID matches the GUID in the configuration file or the SENDERNAME matches CwEventUsername or CwAgentUsername or both, the Event Listener filters out the event. Because the item was originally created through a service call request, Outlook reports that the SENDERNAME is the connector agent user, causing the Event Listener to filter out the event.

Workaround: The workaround for this problem has two parts:

  • Add the connector agent GUID to BIA_Exchange.ini.
  • Put in dummy values for the CwEventUsername and CwAgentUsername fields.

You can add the connector agent GUID to BIA_Exchange.ini in either of two ways:

  • Create a MailItem through a service call request, and the Event Listener will populate BIA_Exchange.ini with the GUID.
  • Set the EventsTraceLevel to 5, create an Outlook item through a service call request, read the GUID from the log entries in the Windows NT Event Viewer, and manually update BIA_Exchange.ini with the GUID. The entry will look like this:

    CwAgentUserGuid={31A42120-49B8-4B8F-A135-915C1AFF2BEC}

Finally, put in dummy values for CwEventUsername and CwAgentUsername so that the Event Listener filters only on the GUID and not on the names.

24670 The names of the child business objects are hardcoded to be "Recipient" and "RecurrencePattern", which may conflict with the names of the generic business objects.

Workaround: Give the generic business objects different names, for example, "GBO_Recipient".

24677 When the connector encounters a CxIgnore on an UPDATE service call request, it sets the value of the attribute to a null value.

Workaround: Specify all desired values in the business object when sending an UPDATE service call request.

Documentation

Product documentation is not included as part of the product package, either by CD or electronic product distribution. The documentation for this product can be found in the following InfoCenters:

To obtain the product documentation, visit the Web site and download the current documentation set for the release that you are using. Follow the instructions provided on the InfoCenter page to complete the installation.

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