Read data from Outlook's Offline Address Book (OAB)

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For a small project I need to assign tasks to people, which are listed in the Global Address List (GAL) of my company. I managed already accessing the GAL, but this is really slow and does nor work if somebody using my program is not online.

So I'm looking for a possibility to read these data from Outlook's Offline Address Book (OAB) which is stored locally.

I was now searching for days in the web without success.
All I need is a way to pull names and e-mail-addresses out of the OAB.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Posted 1-Jan-15 22:24pm

Carpi_1968

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Arjsrya 2-Jan-15 4:36am

Did you read this link? Reading Contacts of Outlook

Carpi_1968 2-Jan-15 4:52am

Yes, I saw it. But it seems to be related to an Office add-in and not for a WPF application.

Arjsrya 2-Jan-15 5:03am

Hope this helps Reading Contacts

Carpi_1968 2-Jan-15 5:21am

Yes, but it only reads the MAPI folder which is the Outlook Address Book of the local user. What I'm looking for is to read the Offline Address Book which is a cached copy of the Global Address List from the Exchange Server.

Maciej Los 2-Jan-15 7:48am

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2301135/programatically-accessing-offline-address-book-using-redemption

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Maciej Los · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-02T01:49:00

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I'd suggest to read this:
http://www.dimastr.com/redemption/home.htm[^]
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2301135/programatically-accessing-offline-address-book-using-redemption[^]

Posted 2-Jan-15 1:49am

Maciej Los