title: Exchange 2010 - How to access the archived content using API
body: <p>These days I am investigating whether we can access the archived content present in Exchange 2010 using Web Services or server side API.</p>
  
  <p>I need to build a connector against Exchange 2010 and retrieve all the content withing Exchnage 2010. Is this possible?</p>
  
  <p>I have seen the below blog, which says that there is no EWS API to access the archives.</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/pcreehan/archive/2010/03/04/how-to-programmatically-access-exchange-2010-archive-mailboxes.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/pcreehan/archive/2010/03/04/how-to-programmatically-access-exchange-2010-archive-mailboxes.aspx</a></p>
  
  <p>Instead we need to use MAPI to access these archived content.</p>
  
  <p>Can someone tell me if Microsoft introduced API to access the archives recently. Or</p>
  
  <p>Can someone point me to some good examples on How to use MAPI to access the archived content from a Java application(or .net)?</p>