Migrating Exchange servers - Address book issues

[Guest]

We are in the process of migrating to a new exchange server. The issue we are
having is transfering the user's outlook (xp, 2k) address book/contact list
to the new server without manually having to log into everyone's computer and
pointing their address books to the new server.

Is there a way to do this authomatically server-side?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

You're moving the mailboxes, right? The user's "address book" is the
Contacts folder in the mailbox. So, there's nothing extra to move.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Repeating, there's nothing extra to move. If you move the mailbox, the
contacts move, too.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

I am baffled. Why didn't you move the entire mailbox, including the
contacts?

The "address book" just shows the data in the contacts folders (unless some
of your users also had a legacy Personal Address Book stored locally).

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

I'm still trying to figure out just what your scenario is? What did they
actually move? Just the Inbox?

Or are you saying that the new mailboxes have the users' Contacts folders
intact, but the new profiles do not contain the Outlook Address Book?

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers