Central Location for Contacts

[Guest]

I had this post before and you answered it very fast and I appreciate your
expertise.

I'm trying to setup a .pst on a network share to allow multiple people
access
to one .pst that stores contacts. Does anyone know of a way to get the
file
to not read: The file blah blah, cannot be accessed. Close any app that
is
using this file, and then try again. You might need to restart your pc.

What I need is to manage the contacts on a server b/c we pop our emails
and
currently everyone manages there own contacts. That's just UGH! to me so
I
need to find a way to allow access to this contact.pst file for multiple
people at once. I don't want everyone to modify the file, I will have
only
read access and one person with modify capability. Is there a way?
User's
will be using XP and Vista and also 2003 and 2007 Office Suites.

I've been reading some of the posts here and I'm not sure if I'm posting
in
the right spot, so if I'm not in the right group can you at least tell me
where to post?

Could you suggest a way I can centrally manage contacts for about 100 users
given my setup? POP3 accounts on all machines and XP and Vista with Office
2003 and 2007.

 

[Karl Timmermans]

A clean solution = MS Exchange using a public folder for contacts. Everyone
can still operate as usual for inbound/outbound email using whatever
POP3/SMTP accounts they are configured for.

You may have a challenge in front of you if the individual users maintain
their own "notes" for their contacts or have added any user-defined fields
for personal reference - just something to think about (not to mention the
task of combining 100 contact folders and ensuring that you end up with the
correct info for each unique contact at the end of the day).

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]

I was trying to stear clear of an exchange server. Is there another way?

Thanks,
Matt

 

[Karl Timmermans]

There are a number of companies offering solutions for this but have no
experience with any of them. One site you can look at for alternatives is
http://www.4team.biz but there are others for which I don't have the URL's
handy.

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]

Thank you so much!

Matt

There are a number of companies offering solutions for this but have no
experience with any of them. One site you can look at for alternatives is
http://www.4team.biz but there are others for which I don't have the URL's
handy.

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