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New Exchange, Migrated w/ ExMerge - what gives? :-)
Greetings;
I just moved a whole office of people to a new Exchange Server via ExMerge: http://support.microsoft.com/default...174197&sd=tech Now; Word - Tools - Letters and Mailings - Envelopes & Labels does not show anything but the top line of the address until I go back and edit a contact record that looks just perfect. Is there a way to touch every contact record? Or, did I miss something in the migration?? Looking forward to your reply, because, one of my folks has over 2,000 contacts! William Arnold ~ Indianapolis, IN |
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I haven't come across this particular problem, and you might get more info.
in an Outlook group, but... Is there a way to touch every contact record? A user ought to be able to modify all of their own contacts with a bit of Outlook (or Word) VBA. Depending on how many people you have to update, that might or might not be a manageable solution. Again, you might be better off asking how to do this in an Outlook group as they probably know more about the pitfalls, but the following code worked in a simple case here where all the contacts are in the default contacts folder (that isn't necessarily the case). In order to force an update, it adds and removes a user-defined property to/from every contact - in principle you ought to check for the name of the user defined field before trying to add it. To use it from the Word VBA editor you need to use Tools|References to add the Microsoft ?? Outlook Object Library, where 11 is your Outlook version. Sub touch_all_contact_records() Dim oOutlookApp As Outlook.Application Dim oContactFolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder Dim oContactItem As Outlook.ContactItem Dim oUserProperty As UserProperty Dim oONS As Outlook.NameSpace ' If you are running this from Outlook, use this... 'Set oOutlookApp = Application ' Otherwise, use this... Set oOutlookApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application") Set oONS = oOutlookApp.GetNamespace("MAPI") Set oContactFolder = oONS.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderContacts) ' Add all the contact items in the default contacts folder to the list For Each oContactItem In oContactFolder.Items If Left(oContactItem.MessageClass, 11) = "IPM.Contact" Then Set oUserProperty = oContactItem.UserProperties.Add(Name:="u4327658746 35", Type:=olText, addtofolderfields:=False) oContactItem.Save oUserProperty.Delete Set oUserProperty = Nothing oContactItem.Save oContactItem.Close olSave End If Next Set oContactFolder = Nothing Set oONS = Nothing Set oOutlookApp = Nothing End Sub Peter Jamieson "William" wrote in message . .. Greetings; I just moved a whole office of people to a new Exchange Server via ExMerge: http://support.microsoft.com/default...174197&sd=tech Now; Word - Tools - Letters and Mailings - Envelopes & Labels does not show anything but the top line of the address until I go back and edit a contact record that looks just perfect. Is there a way to touch every contact record? Or, did I miss something in the migration?? Looking forward to your reply, because, one of my folks has over 2,000 contacts! William Arnold ~ Indianapolis, IN |
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Thanks, Peter Jamieson - I can do that :-)
Kindest Regards, William Arnold ~ Indianapolis "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... I haven't come across this particular problem, and you might get more info. in an Outlook group, but... Is there a way to touch every contact record? A user ought to be able to modify all of their own contacts with a bit of Outlook (or Word) VBA. Depending on how many people you have to update, that might or might not be a manageable solution. Again, you might be better off asking how to do this in an Outlook group as they probably know more about the pitfalls, but the following code worked in a simple case here where all the contacts are in the default contacts folder (that isn't necessarily the case). In order to force an update, it adds and removes a user-defined property to/from every contact - in principle you ought to check for the name of the user defined field before trying to add it. To use it from the Word VBA editor you need to use Tools|References to add the Microsoft ?? Outlook Object Library, where 11 is your Outlook version. Sub touch_all_contact_records() Dim oOutlookApp As Outlook.Application Dim oContactFolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder Dim oContactItem As Outlook.ContactItem Dim oUserProperty As UserProperty Dim oONS As Outlook.NameSpace ' If you are running this from Outlook, use this... 'Set oOutlookApp = Application ' Otherwise, use this... Set oOutlookApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application") Set oONS = oOutlookApp.GetNamespace("MAPI") Set oContactFolder = oONS.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderContacts) ' Add all the contact items in the default contacts folder to the list For Each oContactItem In oContactFolder.Items If Left(oContactItem.MessageClass, 11) = "IPM.Contact" Then Set oUserProperty = oContactItem.UserProperties.Add(Name:="u4327658746 35", Type:=olText, addtofolderfields:=False) oContactItem.Save oUserProperty.Delete Set oUserProperty = Nothing oContactItem.Save oContactItem.Close olSave End If Next Set oContactFolder = Nothing Set oONS = Nothing Set oOutlookApp = Nothing End Sub Peter Jamieson "William" wrote in message . .. Greetings; I just moved a whole office of people to a new Exchange Server via ExMerge: http://support.microsoft.com/default...174197&sd=tech Now; Word - Tools - Letters and Mailings - Envelopes & Labels does not show anything but the top line of the address until I go back and edit a contact record that looks just perfect. Is there a way to touch every contact record? Or, did I miss something in the migration?? Looking forward to your reply, because, one of my folks has over 2,000 contacts! William Arnold ~ Indianapolis, IN |
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Thanks to Peter Jamieson, et. al, I'm almost home! :-)
I've discovered my problem is that ExMerge didn't migrate a crucial contact flag: "This is the mailing address" So, My problem now becomes how to most efficiently set this flag, and, if I can recover what it really was. Can anyone tell me what oContactItem property this is? FYI, I've got XP outlook clients running on an Exchange 2000 server.. Hopefully Yours, William in Indianapolis "William" wrote in message ... Thanks, Peter Jamieson - I can do that :-) Kindest Regards, William Arnold ~ Indianapolis "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... I haven't come across this particular problem, and you might get more info. in an Outlook group, but... Is there a way to touch every contact record? A user ought to be able to modify all of their own contacts with a bit of Outlook (or Word) VBA. Depending on how many people you have to update, that might or might not be a manageable solution. Again, you might be better off asking how to do this in an Outlook group as they probably know more about the pitfalls, but the following code worked in a simple case here where all the contacts are in the default contacts folder (that isn't necessarily the case). In order to force an update, it adds and removes a user-defined property to/from every contact - in principle you ought to check for the name of the user defined field before trying to add it. To use it from the Word VBA editor you need to use Tools|References to add the Microsoft ?? Outlook Object Library, where 11 is your Outlook version. Sub touch_all_contact_records() Dim oOutlookApp As Outlook.Application Dim oContactFolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder Dim oContactItem As Outlook.ContactItem Dim oUserProperty As UserProperty Dim oONS As Outlook.NameSpace ' If you are running this from Outlook, use this... 'Set oOutlookApp = Application ' Otherwise, use this... Set oOutlookApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application") Set oONS = oOutlookApp.GetNamespace("MAPI") Set oContactFolder = oONS.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderContacts) ' Add all the contact items in the default contacts folder to the list For Each oContactItem In oContactFolder.Items If Left(oContactItem.MessageClass, 11) = "IPM.Contact" Then Set oUserProperty = oContactItem.UserProperties.Add(Name:="u4327658746 35", Type:=olText, addtofolderfields:=False) oContactItem.Save oUserProperty.Delete Set oUserProperty = Nothing oContactItem.Save oContactItem.Close olSave End If Next Set oContactFolder = Nothing Set oONS = Nothing Set oOutlookApp = Nothing End Sub Peter Jamieson "William" wrote in message . .. Greetings; I just moved a whole office of people to a new Exchange Server via ExMerge: http://support.microsoft.com/default...174197&sd=tech Now; Word - Tools - Letters and Mailings - Envelopes & Labels does not show anything but the top line of the address until I go back and edit a contact record that looks just perfect. Is there a way to touch every contact record? Or, did I miss something in the migration?? Looking forward to your reply, because, one of my folks has over 2,000 contacts! William Arnold ~ Indianapolis, IN |
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You probably need
oContactItem.SelectedMailingAddress = olBusiness or one of the other values in the enumeration. However, I don't know how you can recover the correct values if they have been lost. Peter Jamieson "William" wrote in message .. . Thanks to Peter Jamieson, et. al, I'm almost home! :-) I've discovered my problem is that ExMerge didn't migrate a crucial contact flag: "This is the mailing address" So, My problem now becomes how to most efficiently set this flag, and, if I can recover what it really was. Can anyone tell me what oContactItem property this is? FYI, I've got XP outlook clients running on an Exchange 2000 server.. Hopefully Yours, William in Indianapolis "William" wrote in message ... Thanks, Peter Jamieson - I can do that :-) Kindest Regards, William Arnold ~ Indianapolis "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... I haven't come across this particular problem, and you might get more info. in an Outlook group, but... Is there a way to touch every contact record? A user ought to be able to modify all of their own contacts with a bit of Outlook (or Word) VBA. Depending on how many people you have to update, that might or might not be a manageable solution. Again, you might be better off asking how to do this in an Outlook group as they probably know more about the pitfalls, but the following code worked in a simple case here where all the contacts are in the default contacts folder (that isn't necessarily the case). In order to force an update, it adds and removes a user-defined property to/from every contact - in principle you ought to check for the name of the user defined field before trying to add it. To use it from the Word VBA editor you need to use Tools|References to add the Microsoft ?? Outlook Object Library, where 11 is your Outlook version. Sub touch_all_contact_records() Dim oOutlookApp As Outlook.Application Dim oContactFolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder Dim oContactItem As Outlook.ContactItem Dim oUserProperty As UserProperty Dim oONS As Outlook.NameSpace ' If you are running this from Outlook, use this... 'Set oOutlookApp = Application ' Otherwise, use this... Set oOutlookApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application") Set oONS = oOutlookApp.GetNamespace("MAPI") Set oContactFolder = oONS.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderContacts) ' Add all the contact items in the default contacts folder to the list For Each oContactItem In oContactFolder.Items If Left(oContactItem.MessageClass, 11) = "IPM.Contact" Then Set oUserProperty = oContactItem.UserProperties.Add(Name:="u4327658746 35", Type:=olText, addtofolderfields:=False) oContactItem.Save oUserProperty.Delete Set oUserProperty = Nothing oContactItem.Save oContactItem.Close olSave End If Next Set oContactFolder = Nothing Set oONS = Nothing Set oOutlookApp = Nothing End Sub Peter Jamieson "William" wrote in message . .. Greetings; I just moved a whole office of people to a new Exchange Server via ExMerge: http://support.microsoft.com/default...174197&sd=tech Now; Word - Tools - Letters and Mailings - Envelopes & Labels does not show anything but the top line of the address until I go back and edit a contact record that looks just perfect. Is there a way to touch every contact record? Or, did I miss something in the migration?? Looking forward to your reply, because, one of my folks has over 2,000 contacts! William Arnold ~ Indianapolis, IN |
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