Using Powershell to read outlook 2010 emails in Windows 7

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• Wednesday, January 23, 2013 10:58 PM

   

   
  

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  I have been using the same script for accessing the emails in Windows XP environment which still works fine. 

  However, I am trying to do the same in Windows 7, outlook 2010 and have been getting errors. Please help.

  [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialname("Microsoft.Office.Interop.OutlookViewCtl") | out-null
  $olFolders = "Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlDefaultFolders" -as [type]
  $outlook = New-Object -comobject outlook.application
  $mapi = $outlook.GetNamespace("MAPI")

  I get the following error:

  New-Object : Cannot load COM type outlook.application.
  At line:8 char:16
  + $outlook = New-Object <<<<  -comobject outlook.application
      + CategoryInfo          : InvalidType: (:) [New-Object], PSArgumentException
      + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CannotLoadComObjectType,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.NewObjectCommand

  You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression.
  At line:9 char:21
  + $mapi = $outlook.GetNamespace <<<< ("MAPI")
      + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (GetNamespace:String) [], RuntimeException
      + FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvokeMethodOnNull

  Thank you in advance!

  AJ

  • Merged by Bill_StewartMicrosoft Community Contributor, Moderator Wednesday, January 23, 2013 11:03 PM Duplicate thread
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• Wednesday, January 23, 2013 11:05 PM

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  Hi,

  I'm going to attempt psychic debugging and guess that your Windows 7 machine is x64 and you're running the script from a 64-bit PowerShell window. If that's the case, try running your script from a 32-bit PowerShell window.

  Bill

  • Proposed As Answer by jrvMicrosoft Community Contributor Wednesday, January 23, 2013 11:20 PM
  • Marked As Answer by Bill_StewartMicrosoft Community Contributor, Moderator Wednesday, February 06, 2013 10:41 PM
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