Outlook Address Book and Exchange Public Folders

[Guest]

Office 2003 & Small Business Server 2003

I have public contact folders that everyone can see and access. I am trying
to get thinks so that whenever a person goes to their Address Book in Outlook
to address and e-mail or send a fax, they have access to these shared lists.

I go to Tools/Address Book and the only names from the "Show Names..."
pulldown are the deault ones. So, I go to Tools / Options from the Address
Book screen and the Public Folders do not show-up in the list of "address
lists" there at the bottom pane. How do I get those Public Contact Folders
to show-up in the list of choices when I click the Add button? They are not
there!

 

[Karl Timmermans]

From the "All Folders" list - right click on the contact folder within the
Public Folders list that you want to appear in the OAB
--> Properties --> Outlook Address Book tab --> check the box for "Show
this folder as an email address book"

Once checked - the contact folder will then appear in the OAB list.

Karl
___________________________________________________
Karl Timmermans - The Claxton Group
ContactGenie - Importer 1.3 / DataPorter 2.0 / Exporter
"Power contact importers/exporters for MS Outlook '2000/2007"
http://www.contactgenie.com

 

[Guest]

Thanks, I finally found that feature on my own, but your response is
appreciated.

Got another one for you though. Up until the last month or so when I
brought-up my address book all I had to do was start typing the first name of
the contact and it would hone in on them. A few weeks back something changed
for all of my old contacts in the list. Now I have to precede the first name
with the "Title" (Mr., Ms., etc.); that only affects my old contacts. Any
contacts entered after the mysterious change to my address book can still be
accessed by starting to type their first name, but the old contacts, in the
same contact list, have to have the titile in fromt of them.

Any ideas what happened and how I can revert back to the earlier scheme.
--
William H. George
VP, Operations
Quality Painting & Wallcoverings, Inc.

From the "All Folders" list - right click on the contact folder within the
Public Folders list that you want to appear in the OAB
--> Properties --> Outlook Address Book tab --> check the box for "Show
this folder as an email address book"

Once checked - the contact folder will then appear in the OAB list.

Karl
___________________________________________________
Karl Timmermans - The Claxton Group
ContactGenie - Importer 1.3 / DataPorter 2.0 / Exporter
"Power contact importers/exporters for MS Outlook '2000/2007"
http://www.contactgenie.com

 

[Karl Timmermans]

The address book is simply a view of the contact folders so without knowing
what exactly changed in the folder- hard to offer any suggestions. Having
said that, I'm also probably not the best person to answer this particular
question - there are people in this newsgroup with far more experience in
this area and hopefully they'll see this and offer some suggestions (if you
don't get any other responses, you may want to ask the question again with a
subject line specific to this issue).

Out of curiousity though, when you look at "Full Name" (by clicking on the
Full Name button) of one of the contacts where you have to enter the
"Title" - is everything contained in the correct fields (i.e. Title in
Title, FirstName in FirstName etc etc) or is everything jammed into one of
the name fields?

Karl

___________________________________________________
Karl Timmermans - The Claxton Group
ContactGenie - Importer 1.3 / DataPorter 2.0 / Exporter
"Power contact importers/exporters for MS Outlook '2000/2007"
http://www.contactgenie.com

Thanks, I finally found that feature on my own, but your response is
appreciated.

Got another one for you though. Up until the last month or so when I
brought-up my address book all I had to do was start typing the first name
of
the contact and it would hone in on them. A few weeks back something
changed
for all of my old contacts in the list. Now I have to precede the first
name
with the "Title" (Mr., Ms., etc.); that only affects my old contacts. Any
contacts entered after the mysterious change to my address book can still
be
accessed by starting to type their first name, but the old contacts, in
the
same contact list, have to have the titile in fromt of them.

Any ideas what happened and how I can revert back to the earlier scheme.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

There aren't many possibilities here. The Outlook Address Book can only do
what you tell it to. You should be able to answer your own question:
1. Determine the field by which you have chosen to sort the Outlook Address
Book
2. Examine that field in a Contact Record that isn't sorting as you think it
should

--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Thanks, I finally found that feature on my own, but your response is
appreciated.

Got another one for you though. Up until the last month or so when I
brought-up my address book all I had to do was start typing the first name
of
the contact and it would hone in on them. A few weeks back something
changed
for all of my old contacts in the list. Now I have to precede the first
name
with the "Title" (Mr., Ms., etc.); that only affects my old contacts. Any
contacts entered after the mysterious change to my address book can still
be
accessed by starting to type their first name, but the old contacts, in
the
same contact list, have to have the titile in fromt of them.

Any ideas what happened and how I can revert back to the earlier scheme.