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Ken VdB
2/24/2005 2:43:28 PM

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Hi everyone,

Please excuse the cross posting but I have been searching long and hard for
an answer to this and haven't been able to find one. I can't be the only
person who needs to do this.

I have Exchange 2000 and SQL 2000 running on the same box. I have a number
of tables in SQL that contain email addresses. I need to somehow make these
email addresses available to Exchange (or Outlook).

Is there any way to do this? Can a newer version of Exchange or SQL do it?
Please let me know what your thoughts are.

Thanks,

Ken VdB

Re: SQL Tables as Exchange Address Books

wei xiao
2/28/2005 2:07:09 AM

What do you mean to make them available for exchange? Do you want them to
appear in the address book?

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Re: SQL Tables as Exchange Address Books

Ken VdB
2/28/2005 2:00:18 PM

Yes, that is exactly what I would like. I see there being two approaches to
this.

1. Exchange connects to SQL and shows the table/view as part of the Global
Address Book
2. Outlook has another address book provider setup that connects directly to
SQL.

Option two is less convenient as it requires setup/configuration on each
client machine.

Ken.

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Re: SQL Tables as Exchange Address Books

John Abbott
3/22/2005 9:20:04 PM

I have implemented similar systems that go through SQL and pull out the
email addresses, then add them to a OU in active directory as contacts with
the appropriate names and email addresses. I have also gone the other way
where I dredge active directory and populate SQL tables.

I use ADSI and VBScript. I have also used this to create address book
synchronization between co-existing email systems (cc:Mail, Exchange 5.5 in
a separate domain and groupwise). I set the scripts to run each night to
synchronize the systems.

Once you are familiar with ADSI, then it is relatively easy to accomplish
this.
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JOHN ABBOTT

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