Accessing Exchange Custom Attributes

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Paul Smith - 25 Aug 2005 18:58 GMT

Is there a way to access a user's Exchange custom attributes programatically,
using CDO or ADO (or some other way)?

Thanks,

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Henning Krause [MVP - Exchange] - 25 Aug 2005 19:18 GMT

Hello,

the custom attributes of the users are stored within Active Directory,
directly on the user object.

If you are using VBScript or VB or C++, you can use the IADS interfaces.
With any .NET language, you can use the System.DirectoryServices objects.

They are named extensionAttribute1 through extensionAttribute15.

Greetings,
Henning Krause
MVP - Exchange
http://www.infinitec.de

> Is there a way to access a user's Exchange custom attributes
> programatically,
> using CDO or ADO (or some other way)?
>
> Thanks,

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Paul Smith - 25 Aug 2005 19:44 GMT

Thank you. Can you tell me how to get at the IADS interfaces? I would be
using VB.

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Henning Krause [MVP - Exchange] - 25 Aug 2005 20:41 GMT

Hello Paul,

the MSDN has the interface description and some examples in Visual Basic:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/adsi/adsi/iads_
property_methods.asp

Greetings,
Henning Krause
MVP - Exchange
http://www.infinitec.de

> Thank you. Can you tell me how to get at the IADS interfaces? I would be
> using VB.
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Paul Smith - 25 Aug 2005 21:48 GMT

Thanks again!

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Paul Robichaux [MVP] - 29 Aug 2005 15:19 GMT

> Is there a way to access a user's Exchange custom attributes programatically,
> using CDO or ADO (or some other way)?

Paul, for a (fairly) gentle introduction to scripting with Exchange, you
might stop by http://www.exchangecookbook.com. There are several sample
scripts that you may find useful-- check out the scripts for chapter 5,
along with the references that Henning provided.

Cheers,
-Paul

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FAQs: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exchange.htm &
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Paul Smith - 31 Aug 2005 07:28 GMT

Thanks, Paul.

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> > Is there a way to access a user's Exchange custom attributes programatically,
> > using CDO or ADO (or some other way)?
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