From: "Florian Groß" <florgro@...>
Date: 2005-08-16T12:05:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby MAPI Connectivity

gregarican wrote:

> The ultimate goal of all of this is to combine POS data with Outlook
> contacts to create a custom CRM application that sales staff can use
> out on the sales floor with Zaurus handhelds. Of course this is a crude
> model, but it's a start :-) The tough part for me was figuring out how
> to talk to the Exchange Server. I tried LDAP, but that only got me as
> far as the global Directory Services tree, which houses the Global
> Address Book and that's about it. I needed to tunnel into the Public
> Folders to get shared contacts.

Certainly sounds like an interesting project. Make sure to mention it on 
the Real world Ruby page when its finished!

> @cdoPR_DISPLAY_NAME = '3001001F'.hex

Note that you can also do 0x3001001F which is slightly better.