Comments on: Export Exchange Global Address List to Access

By: ignbell

ignbell — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:25:24 +0000

I’ve just posted this at another forum and it might be halpful, it worked for me…

If you want to export your GAL from exchange 2003 contacts just do the following:

Using Outlook 2003 create a new .pst and create an empty contacts folder,
go to the Tools menu > Address List > and once you can see all the contacts that you want to export, mark them blue and click the right hand button to select an option called “Add to Contacts”.
Then you can export your “Contacts” by using the import/export option on the “Files Menu”

Good luck,

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By: Leo A

Leo A — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:56:51 +0000

I am on an exchange server and can get the globoal list any suggestions. I have access and it seems to owrk as described except for the global list.

By: Danny

Danny — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:35:46 +0000

Hi there,

I tried searching for the old copy of the aceexch.dll but nothing came up. Anyone can share/send me their old aceexch.dll?

Thank you.

By: Tome

Tome — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:43:14 +0000

Access import from GAL error – Method ‘Value’ of object ‘Field2′ failed
MS says this is a bug in Office 2007 SP1. They are working on a hotfix. Here is the workaround…

SHORT DESCRIPTION OF PROBLEM:
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You are receiving the following error message when importing the Global Address List from Outlook / Exchange into Access: Method ‘Value’ of object ‘Field2′ failed

MICROSOFT PRODUCT VERSION AND SERVICE RELEASES:
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Version of Access: Access 2007 SP1
Operating System: Windows XP Pro SP3

COMPLETED ACTIONS TAKEN AND RESULTS:
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At this time the best workaround to the issue if you have SP1 installed is to replace the new version of the aceexch.dll (version 12.0.6048.5000 – 12.00.6211.1000) file with a copy of the older aceexch.dll file (version 12.0.4518.1014).

The easiest way to find a copy of the older aceexch.dll file is to do a search on your XP machine and the older file most likely will be stored in a cached folder.

After you find the older file, implement the following steps:

1. Navigate to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE12 and rename the current aceexch.dll file to aceexch.old

2. Move the old copy of the aceexch.dll (12.0.4518.1014) into the folder (C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE12)

3. Try importing the GAL into Access. It should now work successfully.

By: Trev

Trev — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:41:36 +0000

Same error as previous two entries with 2007.

By: Eggbox

Eggbox — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:52:44 +0000

Very cool, this worked for me first time using Access 2003, however I got the same problem as “Meikel” when I tried this with Access 2007.

By: Meikel

Meikel — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:37:25 +0000

Thanks Yibing, but strange, when I try this I get after pointing to the GAL and clicking “next” the Error: “Method ‘Value’ of Object ‘Field2′ failed”

By: Yibing

Yibing — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:36:31 +0000

Hi Meikel, I just tried today and you could get the attributes of each distribution list, but not the members in list.
To get the distribution list in Access, click “External Data” -> Import -> More -> Outlook folder …

By: Meikel

Meikel — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:04:43 +0000

Unfortunalty, it’s not working for Outlook 2007 and Access 2007. Any idea what is different or what needs to be changed? Thanks in advance!

By: Juan

Juan — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:53:47 +0000

Excellent short tutorial, thanks works like a dream!!