search .pst and add to oultook

[ragemxf]

is there any easy way to search a users share drive(p:) for .pst and automatically add them to outlook

I have a very complicated script to do this using windows gui functions... but this requires around 200 lines of code..

???

Thanks for any help....

[ragemxf]

does no one know how to do this?

[DaleHohm]

Are you looking for help on the "searching for .pst" part or the adding to Outlook part?

Dale

[ragemxf]

need an easy way for both parts.... now im excited because it sounds like you have an answer!!

[DaleHohm]

need an easy way for both parts.... now im excited because it sounds like you have an answer!!

Hmmm... well it is a SMOC (simple matter of coding).

AutoIt has a group of functions for finding files and parsing file-specs. You'll lind lots of examples of doing similar things by searching the forums.

Outlook has a COM programming interface that would allow you to do just about anything... I've not done this, but I believe that the syntax for adding a new PST file to Outlook would be:

$oOutlook = ObjCreate("Outlook.Application")
$oNameSpace = $oOutlook.GetNamespace("MAPI")
$oNameSpace.AddStore "your-file.pst"
$oNameSpace = ""
$oOutlook = ""

Dale

Edit: you'll need the AutoIt beta to get COM support

Edited November 23, 2005 by DaleHohm

[ragemxf]

so there really is no way with autoit...

I dont want to use beta...

[herewasplato]

...around 200 lines of code...

Get a list of all PST file on that share drive:

RunWait(@ComSpec & " /c " & 'dir p:\*.pst /b /s > c:\temp\file1.txt', "", @SW_HIDE)

You can read that entire file into one variable:

(See help file sample for FileRead for a few extra lines of code if you want to be safe.)

$file1txt = FileRead("c:\temp\file1.txt", FileGetSize("c:\temp\file1.txt"))

You can turn $file1txt into an array:

$file1txtARRAY = StringSplit($file1txt, @CRLF, 1)

Then use something like this:

For $i = 1 To $file1txtARRAY[0]
   ;activate Outlook window
   ;send alt-fof
   ;wait for window "Open Outlook Data File"
   ;send info in $file1txtARRAY[$i] and enter
Next

......hope this helps.......