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figure out the language of a user's outlook client

Subject: figure out the language of a user's outlook client
From: "Stephan Steiner"
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:39:14 +0200
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.exchange.development
Hi

I'm using WebDAV to search user's contact folders (send a HTTP SEARCH to 
http://exchange-server/exchange/user@domain/Contacts). This works fine if 
the user has an English Outlook. The problem is, there are users using a 
different language Outlook so my search doesn't work for them (in German, 
the contacts folder would be called Kontakte). Now I'm wondering, is there a 
means to figure out which folder I should send the search to, without having 
access to that user's computer (it's a server side application, it performs 
the search for every user in the domain)? I looked around in the AD and 
found a field preferredLanguage, but it doesn't appear to match the Outlook 
language (e.g. I live in the German speaking part of Switzerland and my 
preferredLanguage is German - correct for all written communication - but I 
use an English OS and Office). So I'm wondering, is there a way or do I have 
to force the user to define their outlook language, or even worse send 
searches to different urls if one comes back 404?

Regards
Stephan 



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