Sharing secondary Contact Folder

[Brian Paul]

My small company uses exchange 2003 and Outlook 2003. I would like to share
customer contact information with a few employees. I'm attempting to do
this by:

1. in my inbox, i created a new folder of type "Contacts".
2. i name the folder customer contacts.
3. i import our customer list from an excel spreadsheet into the customer
contacts folder.
4. i right click the folder and select "Sharing..."
5. under permissions i select the users and set appropriate permission
levels.

Now when the users try to view the contact list by selecting my userID from
the global address list, they recieve the following error:

Unable to display the folder. The Contacts folder count not be found.

However, when i share my primary Contacts folder, everything works fine.
But i don't want to do this since it stores all my personal contacts.

So how do i share the customer contact folder? Is this possible?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

put them in a public folder - when in the mailbox, the other users can only
see the folder if they add the mailbox to the profile.

 

[Brian Paul]

thanks for the quick reply Diane. i initially had them in a public folder,
however, we want to create distrubution lists, and there didn't to be a way
to select the contacts in the public folder when specifying members to put
in the distribution list. am i missing something?

put them in a public folder - when in the mailbox, the other users can
only see the folder if they add the mailbox to the profile.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/

My small company uses exchange 2003 and Outlook 2003. I would like to
share customer contact information with a few employees. I'm attempting
to do this by:

1. in my inbox, i created a new folder of type "Contacts".
2. i name the folder customer contacts.
3. i import our customer list from an excel spreadsheet into the customer
contacts folder.
4. i right click the folder and select "Sharing..."
5. under permissions i select the users and set appropriate permission
levels.

Now when the users try to view the contact list by selecting my userID
from the global address list, they recieve the following error:

Unable to display the folder. The Contacts folder count not be found.

However, when i share my primary Contacts folder, everything works fine.
But i don't want to do this since it stores all my personal contacts.

So how do i share the customer contact folder? Is this possible?

 

[Brian Paul]

never mind. i just tried creating a distribution list again. and the
contacts in the public folder showed up after adding it to "My Favorites".

thanks!

thanks for the quick reply Diane. i initially had them in a public
folder, however, we want to create distrubution lists, and there didn't to
be a way to select the contacts in the public folder when specifying
members to put in the distribution list. am i missing something?

put them in a public folder - when in the mailbox, the other users can
only see the folder if they add the mailbox to the profile.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/

My small company uses exchange 2003 and Outlook 2003. I would like to
share customer contact information with a few employees. I'm attempting
to do this by:

1. in my inbox, i created a new folder of type "Contacts".
2. i name the folder customer contacts.
3. i import our customer list from an excel spreadsheet into the
customer contacts folder.
4. i right click the folder and select "Sharing..."
5. under permissions i select the users and set appropriate permission
levels.

Now when the users try to view the contact list by selecting my userID
from the global address list, they recieve the following error:

Unable to display the folder. The Contacts folder count not be found.

However, when i share my primary Contacts folder, everything works fine.
But i don't want to do this since it stores all my personal contacts.

So how do i share the customer contact folder? Is this possible?