I have started working with Win32::OLE, and it has been fun. But now I need Perl to access public calendars, and I've run into problems. I can make Perl access my default calendar, but not the public calendars. We are using an Exchange server. This question seems to pop up every now and then, but I haven't seen any solutions. There are some great Perl & Outlook scripts here, but none (that I've seen) address Outlook public calendars. One monk posted a Calendar parsing program wherein he wrote: 
#open the default Calendar and grab the items in the calendar (twice..
+.)
my $namespace = $outlook->GetNameSpace("MAPI") or die "can't open MAPI
+ namespace\n";
my $recurringitems = $namespace->GetDefaultFolder(olFolderCalendar)->{
+Items};
my $calitems = $namespace->GetDefaultFolder(olFolderCalendar)->{Items}
+;

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My first idea was to change GetDefaultFolder to GetPublicFolder. Then I provided the address of the public folder as a string (I was guessing here), so we end up with: 
my $recurringitems = $namespace->GetPublicFolder("\\Path\to
folder")->{Items};
my $calitems = $namespace->GetPublicFolder("\\Path\to\folder")->{Items
+};

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But this didn't work at all. I have full permissions for these public folders. I looked at Microsoft's documentation and came away with the feeling that I am going in the wrong direction. Any ideas would be appreciated.

In reply to Outlook public folders by Jules_Verne

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