Copying a Profile

One way to create a profile is to copy from an existing profile and alter the necessary message services and service providers. Copying a profile involves using a profile administration object, provided by MAPI through the MAPIAdminProfiles function.

To copy a profile

1. Call MAPIAdminProfiles to retrieve an IProfAdmin interface pointer.
2. Call IProfAdmin::GetProfileTable to access the profile table.
3. Build a property restriction with an SPropertyRestriction structure to match PR_DISPLAY_NAME with the name of the profile to be copied.
4. Call IMAPITable::FindRow to locate the appropriate row in the profile table.
5. Call IProfAdmin::CopyProfile, passing the value of the PR_DISPLAY_NAME column as the lpszOldProfileName parameter.