title: How to return a user's unread mail count from an Exchange inbox?
body: <p>I am involved in writing a little internal SharePoint portal for our company. I thought it would be a 'quick win' to get create a web part that would display the user's unread mail count, and possibly a list of today's calendar tasks. However, I have had a hunt around for information to do with OWA web services stuff and I can see no easy way of doing this.</p>
  
  <p>Am I being stupid, is there a simple call you can make? If not what would my first steps be in order to achieve what I want?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>