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How to distinguish EV shortcuts from MS Office messages on Windows file system

JoWiDa
Level 3

A few years ago a user copied several Enterprise Vault shortcuts from Outlook folders to a number of folders on a Windows share along with several actual Outlook messages. Because the files all have a MSG extension there is no easy way to distinguish EV shortcuts from MS Office message files, and since all our clients have EV Outlook extensions the shortcuts appear functional, however most of the archived content has since been purged by storage expiry so the shortcuts are unable to retrieve the original message. Much of this content is now under review for inclusion in our document management system and we need to determine which content needs to be restored.

Does anyone know how we could sort through the file share and parse the EV shortcuts from the Outlook messages? There must be an attribute to an EV shortcut that can be identified, does EV have any utilities available to interogate the file system?

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JesusWept3
Level 6
Partner Accredited Certified

well unfortunately because at that point it is purely an outlook message
The only way to do it would probably be programatically by identifying something in the message, such as a hidden attribute or common contents (such as the banner)

But theres no tools on the EV side to differentiate physical MSG files

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-allen-turl-07370146

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JesusWept3
Level 6
Partner Accredited Certified

well unfortunately because at that point it is purely an outlook message
The only way to do it would probably be programatically by identifying something in the message, such as a hidden attribute or common contents (such as the banner)

But theres no tools on the EV side to differentiate physical MSG files

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-allen-turl-07370146

Rob_Wilcox1
Level 6
Partner

There are quite a few examples on the internet (just have a search) of tools/apps/source-code for reading MSG files.

 

For example:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/office/reading_an_outlook_msg.aspx

Once you've got that part working, then EV Shortcuts have a different message class to regular mails.

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Rob_Wilcox1
Level 6
Partner
Is there more info you need?
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patriot3w
Level 5
Partner Accredited

Try use outlook spy then you can see the msg class.