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If you're using Win32::OLE, you need documentation on your counterpart, in this case, documentation for the Outlook (97 or 2000) object model. This documentation is available from Microsoft, either through your MSDN subscription or even online (http://msdn.microsoft.com), but here are some pointers, which I will update when I get home to my working Outlook-Phone-Number-Extractor (used for reverse lookup of known telephone numbers) :

  my $App = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject( "Outlook.Application" );
  die "No Outlook\n" unless defined $App;
  my $OE = $App->Explorer();

  ... To be filled in when I'm at home ...

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Thinking some more about this, what you really want to talk to is not Outlook, but the Address Book (also somewhat related to Outlook, but not completely so). If you're doing some stuff with some contact items (like, 300+ items), the Outlook object model becomes unwieldly and slow, then you will have to dump Perl and use a language that lets you use real MAPI (an API that is just a fancy object oriented interface to a database, soon to be faded out by Microsoft, but it works and works relatively well).

Update 1 (A reply to seekers node below, not really warranting its own node, as it's offtopic IMO): LDAP is only available with Exchange Server 5.5 (or higher), Outlook itself has no capabilities for offering LDAP support. Outlook can function as a (limited) LDAP client, as can Netscape, but not as a server.

Update 2 I posted a snippet to the Code Catacombs which dumps all phone numbers of all contacts (used to do a reverse lookup).

In reply to Re: Retrieiving User Properties from Outlook via OLE by Corion
in thread Retrieiving User Properties from Outlook via OLE by JojoLinkyBob

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