Platform SDK: Exchange 2000 Server

Automatic Property Promotion

[This is preliminary documentation and subject to change.]

Various Microsoft Office® properties, such as Author, Manager, and Title, are related to the Web Store properties, but in a limited fashion. A built-in event sink "promotes" a specific set of these properties from the Office document into the corresponding Web Store properties when a document is saved into the store. However, this is a one-way action. They are not demoted back to the Office document.

For example, the author property for a Microsoft® Word document saved to the Web Store results in the Web Store property urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office#Author having that value.

Web Store items containing the following file extensions have their stream content automatically examined for properties and promoted as fields for the item on the Web Store database row. This functionality occurs for the following extensions:

File extension Description
.eml Denotes an RFC 822 formatted message. Messages are normally further formatted using the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME). The message stream is parsed and the value of various mail header fields such as To: and From: are added ("promoted") to the item as properties. The DAV:contentclass for the item is also set appropriately; for example, urn:content-classes:mailmessage, and urn:content-classes:calendarmessage.
.doc, .xls, .ppt and other Microsoft Office extensions Results in the item being created with DAV:contentclass set to urn:content-classes:document. For Microsoft Office documents that have standard extensions, such as .doc, .xls, or .ppt, document properties available within the file's standard structured storage are added ("promoted") as item properties.