Accessing Public Contact folder in Outlook Web Access

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Our organization has centralized our contact information in a public folder on Exchange (this folder uses a custom form developed for our particular contact needs). We use this folder as the default folder instead of the Global Address List, so when users click the To: field button they see this public contact folder. When we are off-network, we use Outlook Web Access (which is getting better and better with each new release). Two questions regarding the use of our public folder in OWA

1. Is there a way to make this public folder the default when creating new email messages from OWA? The only two options I see currently are the Global Address List and the user's personal contact folder.

2. Is it possible to duplicate the custom form I created for this public folder in OWA? I think I read somewhere that you have to do it in HTML. We can access the public folder from OWA but the custom fields are lost when you open a contact, since it uses the standard contact form

Thanks
 
1. No.

2. Yes, and you're correct that it must be an HTML form, so you're starting
from scratch. Docs start at http://msdn.microsoft.com/exchange/
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers



Bob Voss said:
Our organization has centralized our contact information in a public
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folder on Exchange (this folder uses a custom form developed for our
particular contact needs). We use this folder as the default folder instead
of the Global Address List, so when users click the To: field button they
see this public contact folder. When we are off-network, we use Outlook Web
Access (which is getting better and better with each new release). Two
questions regarding the use of our public folder in OWA:
1. Is there a way to make this public folder the default when creating new
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email messages from OWA? The only two options I see currently are the Global
Address List and the user's personal contact folder.
2. Is it possible to duplicate the custom form I created for this public
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folder in OWA? I think I read somewhere that you have to do it in HTML. We
can access the public folder from OWA but the custom fields are lost when
you open a contact, since it uses the standard contact form.
 
Hi Sue

Thanks for your response. So, since there isn't a way to make a public folder the default in the email message window in OWA, is there a way to synchronize the Global Address List with the contacts in a public folder?? Otherwise we are left with the prospect of keeping two address lists up-to-date. Perhaps you know of an add-in or third-party utility that will accomplish this?

Thanks

Bob
 
There's nothing built-in for this. You might ask about addins on the
microsoft.public.exchange.clients group.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers



Bob Voss said:
Hi Sue,

Thanks for your response. So, since there isn't a way to make a public
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folder the default in the email message window in OWA, is there a way to
synchronize the Global Address List with the contacts in a public folder??
Otherwise we are left with the prospect of keeping two address lists
up-to-date. Perhaps you know of an add-in or third-party utility that will
accomplish this??
 
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