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How To Programmatically Find the Default MAPI Profile

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SUMMARY

This article describes the steps needed to find the name of the default MAPI Profile for your account.

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The default profile is the profile used if you do not explicitly specify one in the call to MAPILogonEx and instead set the MAPI_USE_DEFAULT flag.

Steps to Find the Default Profile

Call the MAPIAdminProfiles() function to retrieve an IprofAdmin interface pointer.
Call IProfAdmin::GetProfileTable() to retrieve a table of all profiles. This table has one row for every available profile. There are only two columns in each row; the profile's display name and a flag that indicates whether the profile is the default.
Create a restriction on the table where PR_DEFAULT_PROFILE = TRUE and call FindRow() to execute restriction.

Call QueryRows() to retrieve the row containing the default profile.

Here is a code sample that implements the steps to find the default profile:

      HRESULT        hr;

      SRestriction   sres;
      SPropValue     spvDefaultProfile;
      LPSRowSet      pRow = NULL;

      LPSTR          lpDisplayName = NULL;

      // Get a IProfAdmin Interface.
      hr = MAPIAdminProfiles(0, &lpProfAdmin);

      LPMAPITABLE    lpProfileTable;

      // Get the Table of Profiles
      hr = lpProfAdmin->GetProfileTable(0, &lpProfileTable);

      // build a restriction where PR_DEFAULT_PROFILE = TRUE
      spvDefaultProfile.ulPropTag = PR_DEFAULT_PROFILE;
      spvDefaultProfile.Value.b = TRUE;

      sres.rt = RES_PROPERTY;
      sres.res.resProperty.relop = RELOP_EQ;
      sres.res.resProperty.ulPropTag = PR_DEFAULT_PROFILE;
      sres.res.resProperty.lpProp = &spvDefaultProfile;

      hr = lpProfileTable->Restrict(&sres, TBL_BATCH);

      hr = lpProfileTable->FindRow(&sres, BOOKMARK_BEGINNING, 0);

      // we have a match
      hr = lpProfileTable->QueryRows(1,0,&pRow);
      if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
      {
         lpDisplayName = pRow->aRow[0].lpProps[0].Value.lpszA;
      }

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