Shared Outlook 2000 Address Book (without Exchange)

[mporter]

I've got approximately 50 users on a network and they all use
Microsoft Outlook 2000 with independent PST files and are downloading
their mail from a pop server. We are currently using Microsoft Mail
for out Address Book. I'm looking to get rid of Microsoft Mail and use
External Email for interoffice correspondence until I get an Exchange
server installed. I was wondering if anyone had any ideas of what I
could use for a Shared Address Book? I've looked into using LDAP for
this but with Microsoft Outlook 2000 it will not show you a full
listing by hitting the "To:" button. It'll only let you search/query
the Address Book (Which has been changed in newer version of Outlook).
Ideas anyone?

 

[Oliver Vukovics]

Dear mporter,

for 3rd party solutions (without Exchange) have a look on this sites:
http://www.mapistore.com/Outlook/Groupware/
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/share.htm

with Outlook 2000 you can use NetFolders (Freeware) in a small workgroup,
but this is not supported in Outlook 2002/2003:
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/netfolders.htm

To say what share product you should use is not possible (my meaning)
because
different networks have different requirements and all solutions fulfill
different requirements.

The best is to test different solutions.