Thanks for the info. Unfortunately, this will be installing on Win9X machines as well as NT/2K.
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>Nigel,
>Write the COM server as you normally would, but when you create it make it an EXE and access it via DCOM (e.g. createobjectex()). That way, the COM server runs locally to the machine you install it on not the machine that instantiates it.
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>One quick note. Nick (and I've seen others) have had problems running DCOM servers on Win9X machines. Is the machine where you want to access the Outlook stuff on an NT box? If not, this approach may not work for you.
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>HTH.