# Ruby with CDO? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [March 26, 2008, 2:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-with-cdo/132950 "2008-03-26T02:15:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sithadmin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@sithadmin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sithadmin)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 2:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-with-cdo/132950/1 "2008-03-26T02:15:13Z")
Hello, I need to do some scripting to interact with a Microsoft Exchange server. More specifically, to insert contacts into each user’s mailbox’s contacts folder. I have accomplished this with Ruby via Win32OLE and MAPI, but it has become evident that I cannot use this method to iterate over every mailbox without major issues, primarily because the MAPI method goes into Exchange via Outlook using the current user account’s credentials. Thus, I need to enter Exchange using a more direct approach. From what I read, I need to use CDO 1.2.1. However, I don’t know much about CDO or how I am to go about using it. I was wondering if anybody has an experience with this or if anybody can get me pointed in the right direction. I’d really prefer to use Ruby instead of VB, and I think its possible… just not sure exactly how. Any help is appreciated!! Thanks, - Jeff M. ---
**Author:** ![sithadmin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@sithadmin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sithadmin)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 9:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-with-cdo/132950/2 "2008-03-27T09:15:55Z")
I’m a newbie to CDO as well. Did you check out the CDO reference on msdn2? > **[CDO Reference](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/exchange-server/exchange-10/ms526914(v=exchg.10)?redirectedfrom=MSDN)** I need to programatically drag and drop an outlook message into a word document. Any example snippets would be appreciated.