The Contacts Database in Outlook has replaced the Personal Address Book as
the
preferred place to store custom email addresses. We want Outlook to
recognize the old contact list when deploying a new workstation without
having to open manually.
Again, Outlook has no structure called a "contacts list". Moreover it also
doesn't have a "contacts database". Outlook uses a unified database (either
an Exchange mailbox or a PST - Personal Folders file) to hold all of its
data: messages, contacts, calendar, notes, journal, tasks, etc. It's all in
the same place. If you add the data store to Outlook properly, then all of
that data is automatically available.
You haven't said what type(s)s of account you're using. Are you using
Exchange, POP/SMTP, or IMAP/SMTP?