Outlook IMO and contact lists

[Richard Jarrow]

Hi, I hope someone has had this issue before. ;-)
The company I work for (smallish law firm) has a nice new
pair of 2003 servers (one in each office) that I rolled
out for them, but still insist on using Outlook 2000 in
IMO from some lousy web-hosting email service. They don't
want to spend on licensing, hardware or management of the
exchange boxes, which I can understand from their point of
view.

The issue is this; we need everyone to be able to share,
add, and email from some sort of global address book.
I've managed to get a master email list together and
import it into peoples Outlook 2k, but if they add a
contact, no one else sees it. Is there a way to have
people pull contacts off of an address book on a network
drive someplace that they can all access? (I know this is
opening up a can of worms with multiple people updating
simultaneously - I'll deal with that later)

Thanks all and hope your systems run smooth!

Rich

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

See http://www.slipstick.com/addins/groupcontacts.htm for solutions for maintaining a shared address book without Exchange Server. LDAP might be an option.
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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[clintonG]

IMO you made your first mistake by not 'rolling out'
Small Business Server 2003 as it includes everything
you would have needed OOTB.

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