Iterating through Outlook users (Exchange5.5 vs Exchange2K)

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Albert Silliman - 28 Aug 2003 16:19 GMT

I am using VBScript to iterate through Exchange mail users
and access each user's contacts via MAPI using the
following code:

//logged on as Exchange Administrator
Set ol = CreateObject ("Outlook.Application")
Set ns = ol.GetNameSpace ("MAPI")
....
// for each user get Contacts folder
Set contacts = ns.GetSharedDefaultFolder (myRecipient, 10)
// read contacts, etc.

The above code works against Exchange 5.5 but NOT against
Exchange 2K. If anyone has any ideas what needs to be
done differently in Win 2K, I would be very grateful for
your help.

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Sue Mosher [MVP] - 28 Aug 2003 16:37 GMT

I believe this issue is this: Just because you're the Exchange administrator doesn't mean you have access to users' mailboxes. That's a change in Exchange 2000. You'll need to use an account that does have the necessary permission on the mailboxes or grant such to your admin account.

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> I am using VBScript to iterate through Exchange mail users
> and access each user's contacts via MAPI using the
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> done differently in Win 2K, I would be very grateful for
> your help.

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