How to: List the Name and Office Location of Each Manager Belonging to an Exchange Distribution List

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This topic describes how to allow a user to select an Exchange distribution list and display the name and office location of each member who is a manager belonging to that distribution list. The major steps of this procedure are as follows:

  1. The code sample below displays a Select Distribition List dialog box for the user to select a distribution list.

    It uses the SelectNamesDialog object to display the dialog box and obtain user selection. The sample then obtains the user selection through the SelectNamesDialog.Recipients property.

  2. For each member in the selected distribution list:

    1. If the member is a manager, then the code sample displays the name and office number of the manager.

      Each member in the distribution list is an AddressEntry object. By checking if the AddressEntry.AddressEntryUserType is either olExchangeUserAddressEntry or olExchangeRemoteUserAddressEntry, the sample then assigns the AddressEntry object to an ExchangeUser object, and uses ExchangeUser.GetDirectReports.Count >0 as a criterion to determine if the user is a manager. It then displays the Name and OfficeLocation properties of the ExchangeUser object.

    2. If the member is a distribution list, the code sample calls the subroutine EnumerateDLManagers. For each member in that distribution list, if the member is a manager, the code sample then displays the name and office number of the manager.

Copy the following Visual Basic for Applications code sample to the Visual Basic Editor, and run ShowManagersOfGroups. Note that this code sample only applies to a distribution list that has only Exchange users as members, or that has Exchange distribution lists as members but all members of the latter will have to be Exchange users. Further customization of the code will be necessary if there is more nesting of distribution lists as members.

  Sub ShowManagersOfGroups()
    Dim oRecip As Outlook.Recipient
    Dim oSND As Outlook.SelectNamesDialog
    Dim oAE As Outlook.AddressEntry
    Dim oAEs As Outlook.AddressEntries
    Dim oEU As Outlook.ExchangeUser
    Dim oDL As Outlook.ExchangeDistributionList
    Dim oLists As Outlook.AddressLists
    Dim oList As Outlook.AddressList
    Set oLists = Application.Session.AddressLists
    For Each oList In oLists
        If oList.Name = "All Groups" Then
            Exit For
        End If
    Next
    Set oSND = Application.Session.GetSelectNamesDialog
    With oSND
        .NumberOfRecipientSelectors = olShowTo
        .InitialAddressList = oList
        .Caption = "Select Distribution List"
        .ToLabel = "D/L"
        .ShowOnlyInitialAddressList = True
        .AllowMultipleSelection = False
        .Display
    End With
    For Each oRecip In oSND.Recipients
        If oRecip.AddressEntry.AddressEntryUserType = _
            olExchangeDistributionListAddressEntry Then
            Set oDL = oRecip.AddressEntry.GetExchangeDistributionList
            Set oAEs = oDL.GetExchangeDistributionListMembers
            For Each oAE In oAEs
                If oAE.AddressEntryUserType = olExchangeUserAddressEntry _
                    Or oAE.AddressEntryUserType = olExchangeRemoteUserAddressEntry Then
                    Set oEU = oAE.GetExchangeUser
                    If oEU.GetDirectReports.Count Then
                        Debug.Print oEU.Name, oEU.OfficeLocation
                    End If
                ElseIf oAE.AddressEntryUserType = _
                    olExchangeDistributionListAddressEntry Then
                    EnumerateDLManagers oAE
                End If
            Next
        End If
    Next
End Sub

Sub EnumerateDLManagers(oAddress As AddressEntry)
Dim oAE As Outlook.AddressEntry
Dim oAEs As Outlook.AddressEntries
Dim oEU As Outlook.ExchangeUser
Dim oDL As Outlook.ExchangeDistributionList


Set oDL = oAddress.GetExchangeDistributionList
Set oAEs = oDL.GetExchangeDistributionListMembers
For Each oAE In oAEs
    If oAE.AddressEntryUserType = olExchangeUserAddressEntry _
        Or oAE.AddressEntryUserType = olExchangeRemoteUserAddressEntry Then
        Set oEU = oAE.GetExchangeUser
        If oEU.GetDirectReports.Count Then
            Debug.Print oEU.Name, oEU.OfficeLocation
        End If
    End If
Next



End Sub