"acctually use and browse the contacts in their contactlist" are functions available for any contacts folder. You can browse the contents of the folder by selecting it from the Folder List or Contacts navigation pane, depending on how you opened the folder in Outlook. If that's not what you mean, then please be specific about what feature(s) you are looking for.

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"rostie" wrote in message ...
default as in the profiles that have rigths to use this contactlist can
acctually use and browse the contacts in their contactlist.

i thought this would be so with the "public contacts" though when i create a
contact in there i can view it but cannot send any email to it

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Default in what sense?

"rostie" wrote in message ...
is it possible to set up my exchange (SBS) server to make a shared
contactlist a default contact list on a user group?