[Question] MrMAPI & MFCMAPI's capabilities for autostart profile setup

[thievish-coffee-trio-comrade]

Hello MAPI-Maintainers,

At my company my task is to create a config script, which sets up Outlook (2016), so it should:

1. create a new profile
2. set this profile as default
3. add primary & secondary mail addresses / inboxes to it
4. possibly also have the possibility to delete an old profile, and export / import a profile to xml

I have to tell upfront, I am not very familiar with the MS / Office eco-system, but I am willing to learn.

I researched the topic. I found ZeroConfigExchange (ZCE), which seems to read the Outlook information from the AD. But I am hesitant, if it is the correct tool for the job, because I don't know, if it can do all the things listed above, and also I did not find in-depth documentation about it, when it comes to configuration of the AD.

Then I found your project, and it seems to do the things I want to accomplish. Especially MFCMAPI seems to do everything, I tried out the GUI, but I need it to trigger it's functionality via code / shell.

I tried also MrMAPI, although I dont get the difference between the two, I saw it has a command line interface, and was happy. But I feel like, it can "only" read, and not write. Meaning it can display profile infos, but cannot create a new profile and make it default etc.

Could you point me in the correct direction, on what is my best tool for my project, please. Nothing specific, just a general guidance which docs to read. I am reading the MAPI Programming interface docs right now, maybe I have to do something like this, meaning trigger the MAPI functions directly from C++ / # code.

Thank you for reading!