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SBS / Exchange 101 - real basic questions

Set up a user in SBS, go into OWA and should they see all the other existing users in the domain in their contacts or somewhere else so they can start choosing them / see their email address to write to them?

And along the same lines, how would they set up a shared list of contact that everyone can get to?  the firm's accountant - most everyone might have a need for their name / phone / email / address.  Same for lawyer, clients, etc.

What's involved to set up a list of shared contacts for everyone so new people get that list and can hit the ground running.

this is sbs 2011 / exchange 2010 if it matters.

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I was doing some other looking around after posting.

There's THE GAL (only 1 of them exists?)  and then shared contacts that would be in the public folders (can be as many as you want)

The GAL is not made on the fly?  Not just a list of all the users in the domain (like they automatically get added to the everyone group?).  Is there a way to automate the GAL to do that?  Make a user / add to the GAL so everyone sees them in outlook?
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davorin:  thanks so much for your time, but I'm a bit confused.  Yeah, SBS is going away.  These are really Exchange specific questions though, right?  In any domain, the GAL gets build automatically?

And so, at least in OWA right now, how would someone see the GAL that was made automatically?

And for shared contacts across the company, where would you put them?  In public folders? or since that's an iffy issue with MS, is there a more correct place to create a folder of contacts all employees should have?  And how would they see it?  Would it just show up or do they need to do something with it?
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