Outlook 2003 - Exchange 2000 Public Contacts Folder

[Joe]

We upgraded from Outlook 2000 to 2003 last week. Everything was going fine
until now.

We have almost a thousand contacts in a public folder. The permissions on
the folder are set so that all users can add and read contacts, but not
edit. We have a single user that has edit rights.

Under OL2000, any user could change the view to 'by category', select any
contact or category, hit the 'New message to contact' button, and send
e-mails to all that were selected. Under OL2003, it seems that edit
permission is required to do this. Since our policy on the public contacts
folder does not allow all users edit permission, our users cannot send
e-mails to their categories.

Is there a way to make OL2003 work the way OL2000 did in this instance?

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

You will probably need to set this at Exchange Server level, not the client.
Try posting this in an Exchange group for better assistance.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After furious head scratching, Joe asked:

| We upgraded from Outlook 2000 to 2003 last week. Everything was
| going fine until now.
|
| We have almost a thousand contacts in a public folder. The
| permissions on the folder are set so that all users can add and read
| contacts, but not edit. We have a single user that has edit rights.
|
| Under OL2000, any user could change the view to 'by category', select
| any contact or category, hit the 'New message to contact' button, and
| send e-mails to all that were selected. Under OL2003, it seems that
| edit permission is required to do this. Since our policy on the
| public contacts folder does not allow all users edit permission, our
| users cannot send e-mails to their categories.
|
| Is there a way to make OL2003 work the way OL2000 did in this
| instance?