Impersonate user on logon with redemption

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Is it possible to impersonate another user(say the administrator) using the
redemption logon

Is the syntax below correct ?

set Session = CreateObject("Redemption.RDOSession")
Session.Logon '"Admin","Admin",false,true

Also do we specify the NT logon credentials or the "User Name" as per the
exchange server.

-Safal
 
You can impersonate another user using the Windows API (LogonUser /
ImpersonateLoggedOnUser) first, but MAPI does not work too well with
impersonation.
RDOSession.Logon takes the name of the existing profile, *not* a user name.
If you need to connect to a particular user's mailbox, use
RDOSession.LogonExchangeMailbox; it takes the user name and the Exchange
Servere name.

As a rule of thumb, if you need to access multiple mailboxes, run your code
under the user identity of the admin (or a user who can access the required
mailboxes), call RDOSession.LogonExchangeMailbox specifying the name of that
user, then open other users mailboxes using
RDOSession.Stores.GetSharedMailbox.

Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
http://www.dimastr.com/
OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO
and MAPI Developer Tool
 
Dmitry Streblechenko said:
You can impersonate another user using the Windows API (LogonUser /
ImpersonateLoggedOnUser) first, but MAPI does not work too well with
impersonation.
Click to expand...

http://blogs.msdn.com/stephen_griffin/archive/2005/04/13/407925.aspx has
more details on what exactly doesn't work -- to quote from there: "Getting
MAPI to work with impersonation is very hard. If you have an application
which uses MAPI with impersonation and you're not experiencing problems,
congratulations."

-- dan
 
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