Share address book on company network

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Mike Revis

Hi group
Outlook 2002. Win xppro.
We have three computers networked in a small office. All have winxppro.
One has outlook. The others have outlook express.
I have been searching in vain lo these many years for a way to have a common
address book that all three computers can have access to. I have found much
information on how to share an address book on one computer that has many
users but no answer to my question.

Is there a way?

As always any thoughts, comments or suggestions are welcome.

Best regards

Mike
 
Mike Revis said:
Hi group
Outlook 2002. Win xppro.
We have three computers networked in a small office. All have winxppro.
One has outlook. The others have outlook express.
I have been searching in vain lo these many years for a way to have a
common address book that all three computers can have access to. I have
found much information on how to share an address book on one computer
that has many users but no answer to my question.

Is there a way?
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Have a look here:
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/share.htm
 
The Outlook Contacts, which can be viewed as an address book, are contained
in the OL data file, only OL can access this file, and then only a single
instance of OL can access it.
Sharing or accessing the OL data file over a network is not supported by MS
as it can lead to data corruption.
Outlook Express uses a completely seperate/different address book

You can export OL contacts to a csv file which can then be imported into
OE/Address Book
 
Mike Revis said:
We have three computers networked in a small office. All have
winxppro. One has outlook. The others have outlook express.
I have been searching in vain lo these many years for a way to have a
common address book that all three computers can have access to. I
have found much information on how to share an address book on one
computer that has many users but no answer to my question.
Click to expand...

There is no way you'll be able to share a contact data source between
Outlook and Outlook Express. Your best bet there is to periodically export
from one and import into the other.
 
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