Contact Limits
 

Are there any limitations on using contacts in a public folder. The folder
will be used by 10 members of staff and could potentially hold 14,000
contacts. The information is to be used for mail merge purposes. To
organise the contacts they will be assigned a category and the category view
will be applied.

Any advice on this would be welcome.

Contact Limits
 

I do not believe there is a limits except for the storage capacity of the
server itself and any bandwidth issues. I worked in a location that had
over 25 people accessing about Contact Public folders with close to 40,000
entries. Now this may have been setup between 2 servers or something but I
am not positive on that.

--
Francine Otterson
President, San Diego Outlook User Group
MVP - Microsoft Outlook

"Fi" wrote in message
...
Are there any limitations on using contacts in a public folder. The folder
will be used by 10 members of staff and could potentially hold 14,000
contacts. The information is to be used for mail merge purposes. To
organise the contacts they will be assigned a category and the category
view
will be applied.

Any advice on this would be welcome.

Contact Limits
 

Memory and page file size can also make a difference in how many contacts a public folder can support without bogging down.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

"Francine Otterson" wrote in message ...
I do not believe there is a limits except for the storage capacity of the
server itself and any bandwidth issues. I worked in a location that had
over 25 people accessing about Contact Public folders with close to 40,000
entries. Now this may have been setup between 2 servers or something but I
am not positive on that.

--
Francine Otterson
President, San Diego Outlook User Group
MVP - Microsoft Outlook

"Fi" wrote in message
...
Are there any limitations on using contacts in a public folder. The folder
will be used by 10 members of staff and could potentially hold 14,000
contacts. The information is to be used for mail merge purposes. To
organise the contacts they will be assigned a category and the category
view
will be applied.

Any advice on this would be welcome.

Contact Limits
 

Sue - have you experienced larger contacts folder working on the same
exchange server which hosts the company mailboxes. Would you recommend
another server to host this amount of contacts?

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Memory and page file size can also make a difference in how many contacts a public folder can support without bogging down.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

"Francine Otterson" wrote in message ...
I do not believe there is a limits except for the storage capacity of the
server itself and any bandwidth issues. I worked in a location that had
over 25 people accessing about Contact Public folders with close to 40,000
entries. Now this may have been setup between 2 servers or something but I
am not positive on that.

--
Francine Otterson
President, San Diego Outlook User Group
MVP - Microsoft Outlook

"Fi" wrote in message
...
Are there any limitations on using contacts in a public folder. The folder
will be used by 10 members of staff and could potentially hold 14,000
contacts. The information is to be used for mail merge purposes. To
organise the contacts they will be assigned a category and the category
view
will be applied.

Any advice on this would be welcome.

Contact Limits
 

That's a question better asked in an Exchange admin group. I don't even pretend to be an Exchange admin.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

"Fi" wrote in message ...
Sue - have you experienced larger contacts folder working on the same
exchange server which hosts the company mailboxes. Would you recommend
another server to host this amount of contacts?

Are there any limitations on using contacts in a public folder. The folder
will be used by 10 members of staff and could potentially hold 14,000
contacts. The information is to be used for mail merge purposes. To
organise the contacts they will be assigned a category and the category
view
will be applied.

Any advice on this would be welcome.