Impersonate With MAPI

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I am writing an application that will allow our helpdesk to change and
set the Out Of Office message for other users. The problem that I have
is the helpdesk will not have access to any of the mailboxes, and we
don't want to give it to them. Is there a way that I could create a
MAPI.Session for a user, but impersonate using an Exchange admin's
details that will be hard coded into the application? I have seen the
LogonUser API, but I am using W2K so it will not work for me. If it
means that I have to create a new profile each time that will not be a
problem.

Cheers
 
Steve said:
I am writing an application that will allow our helpdesk to change and
set the Out Of Office message for other users. The problem that I have
is the helpdesk will not have access to any of the mailboxes, and we
don't want to give it to them. Is there a way that I could create a
MAPI.Session for a user, but impersonate using an Exchange admin's
details that will be hard coded into the application? I have seen the
LogonUser API, but I am using W2K so it will not work for me. If it
means that I have to create a new profile each time that will not be a
problem.
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According to:

LogonUser (Security: Platform SDK):
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/security/security/logonuser.asp?frame=true

the LogonUser API works with Windows NT 4.0 SP3 and above.

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That, or you could do it as a web application that runs as the privileged
account and then prompt users for their credentials using a form. Or if
you're using ASP.Net you can set IIS to do the user authentication and still
configure the application to run under the privileged user account.

- Dave
 
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