hyperlinking to an item in Global Address List

[Billy]

I have figured out how to hyperlink (html) to an item in my contact
list:

outlook:Contacts/~John Doe

This works great.

Now I would like to be able to issue a command to open a specific
contact from the Global Address List. It is possible that the Global
Address List has some folder name like GAL so that a command like
this:

outlook://GAL/~John Doe

could be issued. Does anyone know how to refer to the Global Address
List by its folder name or to do what I am asking?

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

This can't be done, but you can add the GAL entry to your contact folder and
then do what you know. Is that good enough?

 

[Billy]

This can't be done, but you can add the GAL entry to your contact folder and
then do what you know. Is that good enough?











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Not really. My goal was to connect into a live database (one that
corporate is maintaining) rather than to take a snapshot of a contact
and allow the data to get stale.

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

Hmm... well, not knowing what the purpose is for wanting a "live" link to
Active Directory, then I can suggest that if you are developing an internal
application that needs to acquire data from Active Directory, then use
ADSI/LDAP to get the information.

By the way, I'm suggesting ADSI/LDAP because I don't know what version of
Outlook you are targeting and/or whether or not Collaboration Data Objects
would be available on the machine in order to pull up the GAL
programmatically.