Problem with sharing contacts in Outlook 2003

[Guest]

We have outlook 2003 and an exchange server.

I can share my contacts with my colleague ok but when he tries to send an
email to one of my contacts by clicking on to in a email it does not list my
contact in the select names box.

Hopefully this makes sense?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

The process of adding another user's Contacts folder to your own address book display is somewhat involved. You will need to be able to create -- at least temporarily -- an Outlook profile that opens another user's mailbox as the primary mailbox. Proceed with these steps while logged in under your own Windows account, not the other user's:

1. Create an Outlook profile that connects directly to the other user's mailbox, not your own, and start Outlook with that profile.

2. On the Properties dialog for the other user's Contacts folder, make sure that it's set to display in the Outlook Address Book and give it a display name other than contacts, such as Joe's Contacts.

3. Close Outlook.

4. In Control Panel | Mail, edit the *same profile* (i.e. the one from Step 1) to change the mailbox from the other user's to your own.

5. Still working with the same profile, on the Advanced tab of the Exchange Server service, add the other user's mailbox as a secondary mailbox.

6. Restart Outlook, and you should see the Joe's Contacts in your Outlook Address Book as well as your own Contacts folder.

 

[Guest]

Hi!
I've followed your steps below but I still can't view my colleague's contact
list in my Address Book. Any ideas why, please?
Thanks

 

[Guest]

If a user A wants to share a contact list with user B and user A wants to be
able to see the contacts in the Address lists in Outlook 2003 and uses this
process, will the list continue to update as User A or User B add/remove
items from it, or is this just effectly 'importing the data'

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Patrick Blanche
IT Professional
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