Global contacts

[Guest]

In an effort to help my elementary school, I'm trying to enter ALL the
students in their CONTACTS. I'm assuming they use MS Exchange Server, but am
not sure. How do I find this out? When looking in email options under the
address book the NAME is Outlook Address Book and the TYPE is listed as MAPI,
if this helps.

I want ALL of the teachers to be able to see all students entered in
contacts. When I entered some students on one teacher's pc, when composing a
new email I chose SELECT NAMES and under the SHOW NAMES FROM THE had GLOBAL
listed, but the student's names did not show here. They only showed under
the CONTACTS.

What am I doing wrong?

 

[Brian Tillman]

In an effort to help my elementary school, I'm trying to enter ALL the
students in their CONTACTS. I'm assuming they use MS Exchange
Server, but am not sure. How do I find this out? When looking in
email options under the address book the NAME is Outlook Address Book
and the TYPE is listed as MAPI, if this helps.

If you gave a Global Address List, then you are using Exchange.

I want ALL of the teachers to be able to see all students entered in
contacts. When I entered some students on one teacher's pc, when
composing a new email I chose SELECT NAMES and under the SHOW NAMES
FROM THE had GLOBAL listed, but the student's names did not show
here. They only showed under the CONTACTS.

What am I doing wrong?

In general, only the Exchange administrator can add names to the GAL. I
suggest you create a public contacts folder and then all should be able to
see it. I don't know, off hand, if a public folder can be added to the
Outlook Address Book, though. Someone else will have to say.

 

[Guest]

Is there a website/forum to ask questions and get answers specifically for MS
Exchange Servers?

 

[Brian Tillman]

Is there a website/forum to ask questions and get answers
specifically for MS Exchange Servers?

There are a number of them. Administrative questions can be asked in
m.p.exchange.admin. Client questions (i.e., Outlook Web Access, a part of
Exchange) can be asked in m.p.exchange.clients. There are 12 general
English-based Exchange newsgroups, and 20 English-based newsgroups dealing
explicitly with Exchange 2000.

 

[Guest]

I must be dense, but I cannot find the websites. I've tried them without the
http://, without .com, with .com, etc. What am I doing wrong? What EXACTLY
do I type in the address bar to find these websites?

 

[Brian Tillman]

I must be dense, but I cannot find the websites. I've tried them
without the http://, without .com, with .com, etc. What am I doing
wrong? What EXACTLY do I type in the address bar to find these
websites?

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.exchange.admin
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.exchange.application.conversion
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.exchange.applications
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.exchange.clients
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.exchange.clustering
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.exchange.connectivity
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.exchange.design
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.exchange.development
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.exchange.misc
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.exchange.mobility
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.exchange.setup
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.exchange.tools

or use the web interface:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/exchange.mspx