Aggregate Outlook Contacts

[David]

Hello!

I need to aggregate contacts for 20 users on one machine. Without
sharing all the folders (which would be a nightmare) is there a
product out there for the exchange server side (or even the user side)
that could, without much intervention, dump chosen contacts into a
folder?

We have custom forms and we want to export all mailing information
from these 20 users for select contacts (with certain checkboxes
checked on the custom forms) to a third party mailing program. Simple
enough. We wrote a VBA routine for people to run to dump their
contacts into an access database, but it takes forever, requires user
intervention (which has room for error) and then requires going from
Access to the mailing program. We want to go straight from Outlook to
the mailing program.

What's available for this?

Thanks,

David

 

[Karl Timmermans]

ContactGenie Exporter (Adv or Pro Ed) may be of interest
(http://www.contactgenie.com/cgxfeatures.htm) with the following caveats
(per your description) for the currently available CGX version:

#1 - Multi-folder support exists but multiple folders for multiple Exch
users only available if a single profile is created and the users added as
delegate accounts
#2 - PST output is not currently available - so data would need to go to any
of the supported file types
#3 - Selection criteria would be universal to all selected contact folders
(ergo - can't be modified per Outlook folder)
#4 - Custom form definitions must be identical in all respects for all users
when custom forms/fields are involved

On the flip side, export parameters need only be saved once and can be run
from one machine that has access to all the requisite accounts which can be
run repeatedly with no manual intervention.

Karl
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Karl Timmermans - The Claxton Group
ContactGenie - Importer 1.3 / DataPorter 2.0 / Exporter
"Power contact importers/exporters for MS Outlook '2000/2007"
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