accessing someone else's contacts from exchange

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lesperancer

running exchange 5.5 on nt4 sp6
and running outlook 2000 client

every salesrep has a blackberry to manage the contacts in their
outlook-today profile

I've written a vba function to retrieve contacts from my 'contacts'
folder and to store them in Access

Now I need to retrieve all the salesrep contacts as well, I could

a) get them to share their contacts, so that I can access them
all to get the info

b) put my vba function within the outlook client so everything they
open outlook, I get the info

c) is there something I can do on the exchange server to access
each mailbox

d) is there something I can do in my registry to access each
mailbox

e) is there some version of MAPI, that allows me to use vba to
access all mailboxes

which of the above is the best solution ?
 
If they share their contacts folders with you then you can open them using
NameSpace.GetSharedDefaultFolder and access them directly. Otherwise you
could use CDO 1.21 from VBA code and use a logon to their mailboxes
(assuming you have permissions and know how to access their alias or logon)
and iterate their contacts folders that way.
 
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