sharing address book

[Dan]

I have a wireless network in my house. Would like to be able to access the
Outlook address book from any of the computers on the network, but according
to the documentation I need to be on an Exchange server. Is there a way
around that?

If not, the next best thing would be to copy the address book into a pst
file or something like that and install it on the laptops, but it even looks
like you need to be on Exchange server in order to copy it, although that
doesn't make much sense to me.

Anybody have any suggestion?

Thanks,

Dan

 

[Francine Otterson]

Dan,

This may be of assistance to you.

http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/share.htm

Regards,

 

[Brian Tillman]

I have a wireless network in my house. Would like to be able to
access the Outlook address book from any of the computers on the
network, but according to the documentation I need to be on an
Exchange server. Is there a way around that?

Outlook's "Address Book" is actually just a view of your Contacts folder.
You can't share only a single folder. See
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/share.htm for sharing ideas and
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/sync.htm for synchronization ideas.

If not, the next best thing would be to copy the address book into a
pst file or something like that and install it on the laptops, but it
even looks like you need to be on Exchange server in order to copy
it, although that doesn't make much sense to me.

Copying the PST is one way. See
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm for ideas on moving
Outlook data between machines.

In my case, I've actually put the PST in a network share and used the same
PST on two different machines (not at the same time, though). Although it's
unsupported, I've found it handy.