1 Contact List

[Guest]

I've searched this whole discussion group for similar questions so please
pardon this question if it's redundant...

Basically I'd like to have 1 Contact list where a user can right click a
recipient & have it add to this list (outlook default goes to user's mailbox
contacts). This list must be accessable to everyone access exchange.

Currently I have a Public Folder "Master Contact list" that everone can
access & add to but I'd like to eliminate the possibility of adding contacts
to any other contact list but the "Master Contact List"

Do I need to eliminate the public folder contact list & setup a profile on
the exchange server & share that profile's mailbox?

Thank you in advance for any pointers.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Basically I'd like to have 1 Contact list where a user can right
click a recipient & have it add to this list (outlook default goes to
user's mailbox contacts). This list must be accessable to everyone
access exchange.

The right-click option will always place the contact in the default Contacts
folder and that behavior can't be changed, as far as I know.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Brian... I've read that as well...

however I've also read (through this discussion group, can't find now) that
creating a profile (thru outlook 2003 on the exchange server) and then adding
that user/profile on the client PCs changes the default contact folder to
that profile....

How about eliminating the Global address list?

Do you think that writing a COM Add-in would be too time consuming or
unwarranted?

Thanks...

 

[Brian Tillman]

however I've also read (through this discussion group, can't find
now)

Google Groups (http://groups.google.com/) can find just about any previously
posted message in all of USENET.

that creating a profile (thru outlook 2003 on the exchange
server) and then adding that user/profile on the client PCs changes
the default contact folder to that profile....

The default contact folder will always reside in whatever data store is
designated as the delivery location, either a PST or an Exchange mailbox.

How about eliminating the Global address list?

I know no more about Exchange than would fit in a thimble.

Do you think that writing a COM Add-in would be too time consuming or
unwarranted?

Beats me, but there are programming and add-in newsgroups where you have a
better chance of obtaining an answer, like
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.developer.outlook.addins

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Outlook provides no way to do what you want, at least not without building a COM add-in.

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

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