Accessing global address list

Hi,
We have Outlook 2003 installed with the Collaboration Suite and Outlook Connector. In Outlook VBA I am trying to access the Oracle global address list with MAPI. This takes about 20 minutes to return the selected recipients from the address list (we have 11000 entries). Is there another way to access the global address list? Where are the users stored? Are they stored in a table of the oracle database I could query with sql?
I'm sorry if my questions are naive, I am quite new in this business :).
Thanks for any answers in advance.

Hello
I don't know if you can do LDAP with VBA, but the OCS directory can be querried that way.

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