Creating Triggers in ControlUp for Outlook Inbox Monitoring

A user inquired about creating a trigger for Outlook Inbox on a server, and received a response suggesting the use of ControlUp to run a script using PowerShell and the Outlook COM Object. The script would then check and report the number of items in the Inbox. An example code was also provided. This solution was provided by Yoni and can be implemented through ControlUp.

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Good morning – I would like to create a trigger that alerts us if an Inbox in Outlook on a server is not empty. Is there a way to do so? Thank you.

I guess you can use ControlUp (RTDX or Edge DX) to run a script when the user logs on. The script can use PowerShell with Outlook COM Object to check this and report back via email / Teams / Slack / whatever…

here is a code example courtesy of ChatGPT:

“`# Create Outlook Application object

$outlook = New-Object -ComObject Outlook.Application

Get the Inbox folder

$namespace = $outlook.GetNamespace("MAPI")

$inbox = $namespace.GetDefaultFolder(6) # 6 refers to the Inbox folder

Check the items in Inbox

if ($inbox.Items.Count -eq 0) {

Write-Host "Inbox is empty."

} else {

Write-Host "Inbox has $($inbox.Items.Count) items."

}“`

Awesome, thanks Yoni!

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