Outlook 2010 GAL with Excel VBA - vba

Question

I have the following code to get contacts out of Outlook from Excel:
Public Sub GetGAL()
Dim olApp As Outlook.Application
Dim olNs As Outlook.Namespace
Dim olFldr As Outlook.Items
Dim olContact As Outlook.ContactItem
Set olApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application.14")
Set olNs = olApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set olFldr = olNs.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderContacts).Items
For Each olContact In olFldr
Debug.Print olContact.FullName
Next olContact
End
End Sub
It is failing on this line saying there is a type mismatch:
For Each olContact In olFldr
Does anyone know why this is?
Also, how do I access the GAL as opposed to just my own contacts?
Thanks for any help.
Edit: Here's my new code to access the addressEntry and ExchangeUser, however, not the country field yet:
Option Explicit
Public Sub GetGAL()
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Dim olApp As Outlook.Application
Dim olNs As Outlook.Namespace
Dim olGAL As Outlook.addressEntries
Dim olAddressEntry As Outlook.addressEntry
Dim olUser As Outlook.ExchangeUser
Dim i As Long
'Dim sTemp As String
'Dim ws As Worksheet: Set ws = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets(1)
Set olApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application.14")
Set olNs = olApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set olGAL = olNs.addressLists("Global Address List").addressEntries
'On Error Resume Next
For i = 1 To olGAL.Count
Set olAddressEntry = olGAL.Item(i)
If olAddressEntry.DisplayType = olRemoteUser Then
Set olUser = olAddressEntry.GetExchangeUser
'Debug.Print olUser.Name & ";" & olUser.StateOrProvince
'Debug.Print sTemp
'ws.Cells(i, 1) = olUser.Name
'ws.Cells(i, 2) = olUser.StateOrProvince
End If
Next i
End
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

Answer 1

Give this a try. Although if you have tons and tons of entries in your GAL, it will take awhile to complete, and you may have to increase the 65000.
Sub tgr()
Dim appOL As Object
Dim oGAL As Object
Dim oContact As Object
Dim oUser As Object
Dim arrUsers(1 To 65000, 1 To 2) As String
Dim UserIndex As Long
Dim i As Long
Set appOL = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set oGAL = appOL.GetNameSpace("MAPI").AddressLists("Global Address List").AddressEntries
For i = 1 To oGAL.Count
Set oContact = oGAL.Item(i)
If oContact.AddressEntryUserType = 0 Then
Set oUser = oContact.GetExchangeUser
If Len(oUser.lastname) > 0 Then
UserIndex = UserIndex + 1
arrUsers(UserIndex, 1) = oUser.Name
arrUsers(UserIndex, 2) = oUser.PrimarySMTPAddress
End If
End If
Next i
appOL.Quit
If UserIndex > 0 Then
Range("A2").Resize(UserIndex, UBound(arrUsers, 2)).Value = arrUsers
End If
Set appOL = Nothing
Set oGAL = Nothing
Set oContact = Nothing
Set oUser = Nothing
Erase arrUsers
End Sub

Answer 2

Your code assumes that you can only have ContactItem objects in the folder. It will break if you encounter an object of type DistListItem.
Declare the item variable as a generic Object, then check the Class property (exposed by all Outlook objects) or use TypeName function to figure out the exact item type.
EDIT: PR_BUSINESS_ADDRESS_COUNTRY DASL name is "http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/0x3A26001F"
For address entries you can see the DASS property names in OutlookSpy (I am its author). For example, you can click IMAPISession button, click QueryIdentity, select a property, look at the DASL edit box.