Public Folders

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My people are considering using Public Folders in Exchange 2003 to hold
their customers and their contacts. In many cases a single customer could
have say 40 contacts. My first look at this was that Access could get data
from Public Folders fairly easily and in a number of ways (from straight
linking to DAO). However, this would mean that the Public Folders become the
"master" for the Customer Table. I would prefer the reverse, ie that the
Public Folders interrogate the Access DB for the customer at least. I have
had a look at http://www.outlookcode.com/d/database.htm If I accept that the
Public Folders become the master then is there a way that will allow me to
make Customers look like a linked table and still be sure of getting all the
fields. I understand that by using the existing Access link table to Public
Folders does not give me the customized fields from PF's. I have a
substantial access db that has grown far beyond that of mortal men and would
like to provide a Customer table that gets it's data from PF's but is still
looks like a table to the code Am I clear on my Q? sigh i expect not.<g>

Salud

John
 
Hi John,

With luck someone will jump in and prove me wrong, but AFAIK there's no
way of accessing contacts in an Exchange folder that (a) looks like a
table to Access and (b) exposes all the fields. I think the
www.outlookcode.com article sums it up.
 
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