GAL Email type

[Jarryd]

Hi,

Does anyone know how to change the default Email Type from Ex to SMTP? I
wanted to make it easier for users to lookup a colleague's email address. I
know you can open the user card and select the Email Addresses tab to find
this out, but I would prefer it if they could find it on the main list. I
mean lets be honest, who is going to find the x.400 address useful?

TIA,

Jarryd

 

[Brian Tillman]

Does anyone know how to change the default Email Type from Ex to
SMTP? I wanted to make it easier for users to lookup a colleague's
email address. I know you can open the user card and select the
Email Addresses tab to find this out, but I would prefer it if they
could find it on the main list. I mean lets be honest, who is going
to find the x.400 address useful?

If your GAL is configured correctly, the email address can be shown as an
Internet address instead of the X.400 address. How would be a question for
microsoft.public.exhange.admin

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

You would need to upgrade to Outlook 2007 + Exchange 2007 when they are released. Earlier versions cannot do what you want.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Jarryd]

Hi Sue,

Is there anything to what Brian is saying. I have my GAL set up in the
normal way. I suppose I could rewrite the LDAP query to try and pick up
SMTP (if that is even possible), but I don't see how that is going to help.

TIA,

Jarryd

You would need to upgrade to Outlook 2007 + Exchange 2007 when they are
released. Earlier versions cannot do what you want.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

You could connect to the GAL as an LDAP address book, but I suspect that would only confuse the users.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Brian Tillman]

Is there anything to what Brian is saying.

I hope so. When I open any item in the GAL and select the E-mail Addresses
tab, I see not only the X.400 address but the Internet addresses our
Exchange Admins added as aliases. You're correct though, that if you do not
open the item and just examine the address book listing, that the type is EX
and the address is the X.400 address. If you can't open the item, then my
suggestion is worthless.

 

[Jarryd]

Hi Brian,

I think you have missed what I am tyring to achieve. As I said in the first
post in this thread I don't want users to have to open the item card. It
makes more sense to be able to configure the fields in the main list to
display the type (i.e. email type) of data you want to display. Anyways, I
believe I have my answer: Exchange / Outlook 2007!!

Thanks for your input everyone.

Jarryd