Automatically save files from OWA to shared drive

Kiith

This probably isn't possible, but after expending my limited knowledge, i've hit a brick wall. I figured i'd check here before tearing my hair out trying to figure it out anymore.

Does anyone know of any way to save any attachments from emails in an Outlook inbox to a shared network folder, without requiring someone being logged in?

We need to get any XML files that are received in an inbox into a network location, so that an SSIS package can sweep the folder and get them imported into our document management system. The SSIS part is done already, and i can get a script running on a local Outlook instance to save the files, but that only runs when i'm logged in and Outlook is running. VBA scripts won't run on webmail.

As it stands, leaving an account logged in on a server is about the only thing i can think of.

Fysh

If there's a way of doing it, it'll most likely be via PowerShell. I've not tried to do exactly what you're doing, but I have had to do a bunch of stuff involving Office-365 tasks via PS and it's surprisingly robust and versatile.

At a guess a variation on this should probably work. You could run it as a scheduled task at defined intervals as a service account with access to the relevant mailbox.

Kiith

Thanks for that Fysh, that looks great. Should help get me on the right track anyway.