How do I make a category appear to everyone on my network?

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I am trying to add a category to the Master Category list that is available
to all on the network. I added it in the server, but it is still not
appearing on the other locations.
 
Categories do not carry from computer to computer, even if the categories are
added to the server. (yes, it is crazy) Each individual computer has to
have each category added to the contact files, of course exactly as you have
added them to yours. Once they are added to each computer the contacts on
that computer will then show up with the categories you have added to the
main computer. So everytime a category is added it has to be added to each
computer in order for that category to show on everyones contacts.

It is a tedious task especially when you have many computers and use lots of
categories! :-(
 
Thank you. Luckily its only 10 machines.
Sara


judy said:
Categories do not carry from computer to computer, even if the categories are
added to the server. (yes, it is crazy) Each individual computer has to
have each category added to the contact files, of course exactly as you have
added them to yours. Once they are added to each computer the contacts on
that computer will then show up with the categories you have added to the
main computer. So everytime a category is added it has to be added to each
computer in order for that category to show on everyones contacts.

It is a tedious task especially when you have many computers and use lots of
categories! :-(
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hi
hope im not explaining something you already know but what i do ( i look
after about 30-40 PCs on a network) is make the master category list on my
(client) pc (in outlook), then export that reg key to the server. Email
everyone with a link to the reg key on the server, with an explanitory note.
Then it only takes them about 10sec and 4 clicks to update thier master cat
list. Job done. I ask them to reply when they have sucessfully done it.
If after a few days x number of people havent replied i send them a reminder
and a offer of help if they are stuck. i do many admin tasks like this as its
good to get people involved in thier PC's, they like to learn new things and
are generally pleased they managed it.
Hope that helped at all
Simon
 
incase you didnt know how to do the previous...
To back up the Master Category List in Outlook 2003:
Run Regedit and go to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook and select the
Categories key.
Choose Registry | Export Registry File to make a copy of the Categories
branch of the registry. Note that this list is in Unicode encoding and is not
compatible with versions other than Outlook 2002.
 
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