Accessing all user contacts

[La Pedrera]

Hi..

I'm on an exchange 2003 environment.
I will be needing to send out an email to every users contacts (in
their contacts folder).
How would I go about doing this? I've seen posts about using a public
folder to store the contacts, but we don't do that here and need to
find another way to go about it.

Any help or direction would be appreciated.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Write code to iterate every contact in every mailbox or manually open every Contacts folder with the File | Open | Outlook Data File command so you can get to each folder and send a message.

I presume you have a written internal policy in place on usage of data stored in each user's mailbox and how privacy of that data will be handled? If not, you're probably opening a huge can of worms.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers