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Collect All Contacts of All Mail Users
Hello
We want to extract all the contacts that has ever send/receive emails to/from all the users in the company.
I have looked into the following solutions but each has its own problems. Are there workarounds of these problems? Are there other solutions out there?
- NK2 file: has 1000 contacts limit; and I know some users definitely have way more than 1000 contacts
- Address Book: Some users do not have a habit of saving contacts, therefore their address book is 0.
We use Outlook Exchange mail server.
We want to extract all the contacts that has ever send/receive emails to/from all the users in the company.
I have looked into the following solutions but each has its own problems. Are there workarounds of these problems? Are there other solutions out there?
- NK2 file: has 1000 contacts limit; and I know some users definitely have way more than 1000 contacts
- Address Book: Some users do not have a habit of saving contacts, therefore their address book is 0.
We use Outlook Exchange mail server.
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RNGAdmin,
With respect, I think your award of a 'C' on this is patently unfair. It is hardly my fault that the only way to get what you want ("We want to extract all the contacts that has ever send/receive emails to/from all the users in the company.") is what I suggested and what BlueDevilFan (who is himself a Microsoft MVP for Outlook) has confirmed.
As BDF notes, my suggestion can be automated with code; my notion was to go up against the Exchange data store directly and thus cut Outlook out of the loop (and also potentially allow you to "resurrect" contacts from messages users may have deleted but which still exist in Exchange), although BDF's suggestion to run the code for each Outlook client is certainly viable.
Indeed, the alternative you described is wholly inadequate, by your own admission, to answering your original question.
Patrick
With respect, I think your award of a 'C' on this is patently unfair. It is hardly my fault that the only way to get what you want ("We want to extract all the contacts that has ever send/receive emails to/from all the users in the company.") is what I suggested and what BlueDevilFan (who is himself a Microsoft MVP for Outlook) has confirmed.
As BDF notes, my suggestion can be automated with code; my notion was to go up against the Exchange data store directly and thus cut Outlook out of the loop (and also potentially allow you to "resurrect" contacts from messages users may have deleted but which still exist in Exchange), although BDF's suggestion to run the code for each Outlook client is certainly viable.
Indeed, the alternative you described is wholly inadequate, by your own admission, to answering your original question.
Patrick
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Dear matthewspatrick, you are right. The manual approach is the only option if we want to harvest all emails. Sorry for inadequate grade... It was not objective at all.
RNGAdmin,
Thank you for revisiting this, and good luck with your project :)
Patrick
Thank you for revisiting this, and good luck with your project :)
Patrick
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We look forward to any future discussions regarding this issue