Exchange and Contacts not consistent

[Guest]

I recently switched to an Exchange server (hosted) for my mail, etc.

In Outlook 2003 I succesfully moved my contacts from my personal folders to
my exchange account. They even showed up on my Windows mobile based phone.
So that's a good sign.

My contacts are just for me. I am not sharing them with a team or other
individuals. But, I need to be able to access them from a hew different
places.

I think I need an education on how all this works. Normally I am pretty
saavy on some of the more basic stuff, but this is not coming to me so easily.

Here is what is not working, or I don't get:

1) When I compose an email in Outlook 2003, and I click "To..." the window
that used to pop up with all my address, is not blank. In the upper right I
can choose:

OAL
Global Address List
All Address Lists
OAL
Outlook Address Book
Contacts

My contacts only show up under "Contacts". Is there a way to make this the
default list? Is this even the list they should be under? What are the
lists? Does anyone have a link that dummies these down for me?

2) When I check my Email through Microsoft Outlook Web Access, I can click
"Contacts" and they are all there. However, when I am composing an email and
I click "To..." I can't find any contacts by typing their names. Normally, I
know how this works, because I do it all the time with my Employer's exchange
account without problems.

3) At my employer, I have programmed Entourage (Outlook for Macs) to check
my Exchange account. It works fine. However, it did not download all my
contacts. I searched a couple topics in "help" but to no avail.

So I think I am close, but I am doing something wrong.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Jon

 

[Brian Tillman]

1) When I compose an email in Outlook 2003, and I click "To..." the
window that used to pop up with all my address, is not blank. In the
upper right I can choose:

OAL
Global Address List
All Address Lists
OAL
Outlook Address Book
Contacts

My contacts only show up under "Contacts". Is there a way to make
this the default list?

In the Address Book interface, click Tools>Options and adjust it there.

Is this even the list they should be under?

Your own contacts, yes.

What are the lists? Does anyone have a link that dummies these down
for me?

The rest of the lists are in the Global Address List that Exchange offers.
It contains all the addresses of entities within Exchange, such as the other
people in the company.

2) When I check my Email through Microsoft Outlook Web Access, I can
click "Contacts" and they are all there. However, when I am
composing an email and I click "To..." I can't find any contacts by
typing their names. Normally, I know how this works, because I do it
all the time with my Employer's exchange account without problems.

I just tried this. Select the appropriate list in the "Find names in"
drop-down. Enter the last name of the person you want in "Last name" field
(or their fist name in the "First name" field, or any other search criteria
you want), and then click Find. In the display pane you should see all the
entries matching the criteria you selected.

3) At my employer, I have programmed Entourage (Outlook for Macs) to
check
my Exchange account. It works fine. However, it did not download
all my contacts. I searched a couple topics in "help" but to no
avail.

If you're connecting to an Exchange account, there should be no
"downloading". You should see the contents of the Exchange mailbox directly
with no downloading.