Okay, so heres my issue....
I'm really quite new to this whole Exchange system, we had been using Merak Mail Server with Outlook 2003, but required a bit more seemless inter-connection then we could get with that set up.
We have Exchange 2003 running on Server 2000 (couldn't get corp to spring for all new OS's and CAL's) and all users using outlook 2003, with Bussinse contact manager installed.
Being that everyone had their own pst's and calaendars before exchange was thought of, we're running into global address book problem.
What we're looking for is the ablity to have a company wide contact list that everyone can look up and add information that is needed, and still have there own personal contacts (I know I have a few that I don't think the rest of the company wants to wade through to get to a clients info, etc....), what we have right now is a big vcf for what /WAS/ the company's contact list setting on my desktop, and everyone having there own personal contacts, with our global address book have just the current users at the company.
Is there a way to let everyone copy what they feel is a company contact from their personal contacts /INTO/ the GA?
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Public folders is the way that I prefer to do it.
http://www.amset.info/exch
Major drawbacks is that you cannot use the information to email from OWA and to use it as an Outlook address book means a per user setting.
However I think that the manageability of the contacts that it provides outweighs those disadvantages. Once the Outlook Address Book setting has been made it doesn't require much administration from the network admins.
Simon.
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by: jaguarpriestPosted on 2005-08-11 at 14:00:31ID: 14655919
You could use public folders, which is accessable to everyone. You can then set specific rights so as to add all the contacts you need and let the users add contacts to the public folder. You can also set it so they can only add and modify only what THEY put in and nothing else.
Jag