hyperlinking to an item in Global Address List

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Billy

I have figured out how to hyperlink (html) to an item in my contact
list:

outlook:Contacts/~John Doe

This works great.

Now I would like to be able to issue a command to open a specific
contact from the Global Address List. It is possible that the Global
Address List has some folder name like GAL so that a command like
this:

outlook://GAL/~John Doe

could be issued. Does anyone know how to refer to the Global Address
List by its folder name or to do what I am asking?
 
This can't be done, but you can add the GAL entry to your contact folder and
then do what you know. Is that good enough?
 
This can't be done, but you can add the GAL entry to your contact folder and
then do what you know. Is that good enough?











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Not really. My goal was to connect into a live database (one that
corporate is maintaining) rather than to take a snapshot of a contact
and allow the data to get stale.
 
Hmm... well, not knowing what the purpose is for wanting a "live" link to
Active Directory, then I can suggest that if you are developing an internal
application that needs to acquire data from Active Directory, then use
ADSI/LDAP to get the information.

By the way, I'm suggesting ADSI/LDAP because I don't know what version of
Outlook you are targeting and/or whether or not Collaboration Data Objects
would be available on the machine in order to pull up the GAL
programmatically.
 
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