URL Addressibility

[This is preliminary documentation and subject to change.]

You can identify the location of items in Web Store using simple Uniform Resource Locators (URL). As with all URLs, you identify items depending upon the mechanism or service used to access the item:

• HTTP/WebDAV - When accessing an item using the HTTP/WebDAV protocol, the item URL is constructed using the standard HTTP URL scheme. For example, http://server.microsoft.com/public/reports/report1.doc.
• Web Store OLE DB provider - When using the Web Store OLE DB provider (ExOLEDB), the URL for the item is constructed using a file: URL scheme. For example, file://./backofficestorage/domain.microsoft.com/public folders/reports/report1.doc.
• File system - You can use standard file: URLs to identify items. These URLs are not constructed the same way as file: URLs used with the Web Store OLE DB provider. For example, file://M:\backofficestorage\somewhere.microsoft.com\MBX\user1
  \inbox\report.eml.