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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Contacts / October 2006Automating the addition of a public folder to OAB
I know to enable visibility of a public contact folder in OAB by ticking "Show this folder as an e-mail Address Book" in the folder properties. Many will know their users as people who don't want to follow any advice that is more complex than "doubleclick THIS". My users being of such kind i would like to know if there is a scipt or sth. which allows me to specify a folder to enable for OAB and it will do it. Thanks. You can script that with the MAPIFolder.ShowAsOutlookAB property from the Outlook object model.  SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx >I know to enable visibility of a public contact folder in OAB by > ticking "Show this folder as an e-mail Address Book" in the folder [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > me to specify a folder to enable for OAB and it will do it. > Thanks. > You can script that with the MAPIFolder.ShowAsOutlookAB property from the Outlook object model. Thanks a lot. To my surprise, even as a Unix instead of Windows Admin, with this hint i was able to copy and paste an outlook macro together to do this task. Now, trying to figure how to hand this to the users, it seems there actually is no way to make this a - start this and you'll be done - experience since probably i chose the wrong technique, aka macro to do this. How can i make such a script work like a program / How can i make a script run this macro or what should it be instead of a macro ? It needs to be a script, e.g. using VBScript, not a VBA macro. If you want to make it easy, tell users to start Outlook, then run the script, which could be in a file hosted on a network server, in a web page (perhaps, depending on your browser and its security), etc. SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > >> You can script that with the MAPIFolder.ShowAsOutlookAB property from the Outlook object model. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > / How can i make a script run this macro or what should it be instead > of a macro ?
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