Exchange 2003 WebDAV LastModified Issue - ios

I'm having an issue with an Exchange 2003 WebDAV interaction and I'm hoping someone can enlighten me. We have a calendar synchronization application that keeps a user's Exchange calendar up to date with the calendar built into my company's application. This synchronization is based off of the "LastModified" property of the given calendar appointments in the WebDAV returns.
The problem is that if a user modifies an appointment on their iPad or iPhone (which is pretty common) it does not update the "LastModified" property of the appointment which makes it appear as if though the appointment doesn't need to be updated for our application. If we modify the appointment directly in the OWA interface it is updated correctly.
Does anyone know why this would not be getting updated for device side updates or perhaps even another way that we can track appointment changes? In our synchronization for Exchange 2007 and 2010 we are using the ChangeKey property but to my knowledge that does not exist in the Exchange 2003 WebDAV interface. Any help is much appreciated!

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Whenever a record is updated/inserted say for eg.Customer data ,I need it to be updated automatically to my webapplication..Is that possible?
How will I know that record is updated/inserted ?
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Whenever a record is updated/inserted say for eg.Customer data ,I need
it to be updated automatically to my webapplication..Is that possible?
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How will I know that record is updated/inserted ?
Query QuickBooks by the TimeModified timestamp. That will give you a list of objects that have changed since the given date/time.
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I have now played with the QBO and QBD APIs and feel I have a fair understanding of how it thinks and how to interact with it. So now it is time to design the actual integration solution.
Inside my application you can create new customers, quote services, perform services, and soon, pass invoices to QuickBooks, sounds easy.
But what if the customer is not in QB yet? No problem - for each invoice I will look up the customer (need the id anyway) and if it doesn’t exist, add it. But if I have to look up the customer for each invoice it seems like it might be slow. I will likely have 30,000 customers and have 500-3000 invoices per day.
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Thanks for your help!
We often times do store the QB id in our database for use. If we post an invoice into QB, we'll then store the QB id for future use if we need to modify it.
As far as detecting changes on the customer record and other info, there's a couple ways to handle the conflict resolution. One is to keep a timestamp on your side as to when changes are made. You can then compare this with the timestamp of the last change on the QB record and then make your decision as to which one gets updated.
FreddyMac,
To detect changes on the Intuit side you can construct a query with a CDCasOf Filter, which will return only the data that has changed since a date you provide. (ChangeDataCapture as of)
https://ipp.developer.intuit.com/0010_Intuit_Partner_Platform/0050_Data_Services/0500_QuickBooks_Windows/0100_Calling_Data_Services/0015_Retrieving_Objects
You need to keep track of data changes on your side.
The batch submission is not faster, its just easier for you to write the code.
The IPP SDK can queue the API calls for your and aggregate the responses.
regards,
Jarred

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Go integrated, and forget external browser issues.

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