Outlook 2003 - Shared contacts public folder.

[Colin]

Hi,

as i understood the only possibility to get a shared address book (stored in
a public folder) shown under contacts tab as well is to add it as favorite?
My problem is to get both address books shown on the contacts page like...

-> My contacts
-> Company contacts

What I got is now (when Public Folder -> r-click contacts -> add favorites):

-> My contacts
-> other contacts
Company contacts

How can this be done for every user. I don't wanna tell every user he has to
goto Public Folders -> All public folders -> r-click contacts tab -> add to
favorites...

Many thx for your help in advance...

Cheers, Marcel.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

If you don't want to tell every user to do this manually, it is possible to
write a script that adds a public contacts folder to Favorites and makes it
part of the address book. Do you use the same mail profile name for all
users?

 

[Guest]

Sue,

I have this same issue with a client. We'd like to have all users that are
being migrated to Outlook 2003 to have, as part of the automatic profile
migration process at the time of Outlook 2003 install, have a public folder
based contact resource searchable by all users. The same idea as having them
all go to the public folder resource, and add the contact list in public
folder manually.

If one requirement to automate this is having all profiles named the same,
we can just re-create them at the time of install.

Thanks in advance!!

-Tom

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Having consistent profile names isn't a requirement, it just makes it
potentially easier, because you don't have to put up the Choose Profile
dialog for the user.

Another approach is to use a custom mail form to "announce" a contacts
folder to users and run a script behind the form to do the necessary work.
If you want to see a sample, go to the URL in my signature and download the
sample code from the 'get the code' link on that page. Listing 23.1 is a
sample form that uses the ShowAsOutlookAB property to add a contacts folder
to the address book. If you also want it in PF\Favorites, you can use the
AddToPFFavorites method as well.

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