I don't really know exactly what i?m trying to do. A friend of mine ask me fo rsomething like that. I suppose he wants to access to the Outlook data from a remote PC.

>May I use Outlook.Application to automate Outlook ? I mean not Outlook Express !
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>Yes. What are you trying to do?
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>Is there a way to retrive information from the Outlook Database without installing Outlook ?
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>I do not understand how you could have anything to restrieve without having Outlook installed. The short answer is that you cannot automate Outlook unless it is installed.