Windowws Address Book

[Richard Urban]

A silly question. Did you put any entries into your address book at home?

If you entered data for a new contact the entry should be there. Your
address book at work (if you are using Outlook Express there also) may be
set to put the address of anyone you reply to in the book automatically.
Your address book at home may not have this function enabled (it is - by
default, but can be turned off).


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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Beni]

I have a PC at home and some at work. Running Wab ( Windows Address Book) at
home opens a large list of addresses while doing so at work I get an empty
window - just with "Shared Contacts" and "Main Identities Contents" but no
address. At work I know that the Pc's are connected to a domain with all the
facilities.

Can someone explain this please?

Thank
Beni

 

[WTC]

Office Outlook doesn't use the Windows Address Book (WAB). Outlook Express
which is included in Windows OSes uses WAB. Office Outlooks stores the
addresses in the PST file which also holds emails, tasks, calendar, and so
on.

Since at work you are on a domain, you /may/ be using Exchange Server to
handle messaging transactions such as email. Typically, all of your contact
information, email messages, tasks /may/ be held in a Mailbox store on the
Exchange Server if the Exchange Server Admin configured the Exchange Server
this way.

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Thanks Mr. Urban
Though you understood that the problem is at home I could get the main
idea of your answer. As I elaborated the problem is at work and not at
home. I'm sorry for being misleading a little as I didn't mention some
details.
ANy case, at work the email client is Outlook (office) and if I open the
address book from the Outlook menu, I really get a long list of all the
addresses(I think that its supported by Active Directory), but running WAB
from a command line opens an empty list.

Yes, they are using two different sources for addresses, so what you see is
expected.

Why can't I get the same list from a command line as I do from the Outlook
menu?

Outlook stores contacts within its .PST file. Outlook Express uses the
Windows Address book, an entirely independent program not connected to
Outlook.

Another question-
Suppose I define a new user in my home (Outlook Express) PC and this user
would open the WAB, which list would he see?

The user will not see the Outlook contacts contained in the .PST file. The
new user should see a blank Windows Address Book file for their identity.

You could potentially import the contacts, but the resulting address book
will be static and not tied in any way to the source. Changes in one will
not be reflected in the other.

HTH
-pk

 

[Beni]

Thanks Mr. Urban
Though you understood that the problem is at home I could get the main idea
of your answer. As I elaborated the problem is at work and not at home. I'm
sorry for being misleading a little as I didn't mention some details.
ANy case, at work the email client is Outlook (office) and if I open the
address book from the Outlook menu, I really get a long list of all the
addresses(I think that its supported by Active Directory), but running WAB
from a command line opens an empty list.
Why can't I get the same list from a command line as I do from the Outlook
menu?
Another question-
Suppose I define a new user in my home (Outlook Express) PC and this user
would open the WAB, which list would he see?

Thanks again

Benin

 

[Beni]

Thanks,

Consider another environment - a PC with Web mail like Hotmail, or Yahoo
mail.
What is the relations between the address book and the addresses being used
with the mail client?
How can the user access the address book from the web mail?
Does it get filed automatically with sent addresses like in OE?
Is possible to access it also from a command line?

Thanks in advance

Beni

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Thanks,

Consider another environment - a PC with Web mail like Hotmail, or Yahoo
mail.
What is the relations between the address book and the addresses being
used with the mail client?

Often there is no relation. The web interface uses address stored on the
server, not on the local system.

How can the user access the address book from the web mail?

The user exports the address book and imports it to the web mail, if the
mail provider has provided this. It's an entirely manual and not always
successful process.

Does it get filed automatically with sent addresses like in OE?

Depends on the mail system, its interface and its features. It seems that
Google mail does this.

Is possible to access it also from a command line?

Generally, no.

HTH
-pk