Accessing Outlook/Exchange contacts - Best Strategy

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Atlas

Digging around I've found that there is no way to access Outlook/Exchange
data using the .mdb/linked table wizard technique, that is you have to code!

There's a quite simple sample on MS explaining how/to @
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290792/); basically it shows how to move
data between a table and Outlook.

Assuming I'd like to update data on the Exchange Server, that means I need
to read and update data from a SQL server table.

Apart form thinking about the effectiveness of this technique, also
wondering if there's a less complex method to acheive the same result,
considering also the multiuser environment......

Regards
 
For what I know, Exchange doesn't use SQL-Server as its backend database.

You should ask your question in a newsgroup about Exchange, not in one about
ADP. You will probably find that going this way is probably more
complicated then accessing Outlook.
 
Sylvain Lafontaine said:
For what I know, Exchange doesn't use SQL-Server as its backend database.
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Glad you know, I did allready.
You should ask your question in a newsgroup about Exchange, not in one
about ADP. You will probably find that going this way is probably more
complicated then accessing Outlook.
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Sorry about you thinking this post is OT but it it isn't at all.

We are taking about Access->Exchange, not generic exchange topic.

And we're talking .adp.

And you should read the MS article I was talking about!

Bye
 
ADP best methods for utilizing Exchange

I actually am interested in this subject as well. Mostly in what are the best methods for single sourcing a public contact list from out look with your ADP application?

I once looked into making ADO connection to exchange 5.5. This proved to be difficult. Exchange doesn’t use a SQL standard relational database. It looks to me more like a LDAP server that is built for massive storage of simple lists.

I also had some success using WebDAV to connect to exchange. However, it was taking to much time so I moved on. Now I have contacts in my adp and exchange server. This will eventually become a big headache to merge this information together.
 
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