Actually, having tinkered around with things a little that's what I've
decided to do. I'm going to set each user up with their own contact list,
then have 4 different "public contact" lists, for varying different
catagories of contacts. One problem I am having though. I've set up the
contact lists, and tested adding, editing, removing entries via the
Administrator, and it carries over to each users Outlook Account. However I
would like to show the 4 public contact lists under the contact pane; it
currently shows only the users individual list. I've tried a drag-and-drop
from within the folder list; from the Public Contacts Folder that we have the
4 contact lists in (within the 'All Public Folders' hierarchy), to the
Contacts entry in the Mailbox hierarchy. It'll create a sub heading under
Contacts, with the public contact list name, and carry over all the current
entries, but any new entries put into the main list don't carry over.

Is there a way to display the 4 public contact lists, within the contacts
pane, and still have them show any new entries added by another user?

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

RSteph wrote:

The desire is to have a small list of contacts that would be used by
the majority of people on a very common buisness.

That's fine, but you don't have to add them to the individual Contacts
folders. Maintain them in the public folder and use them there.
--
Brian Tillman

RSteph wrote:

Is there a way to display the 4 public contact lists, within the
contacts pane, and still have them show any new entries added by
another user?

Right-click a public Contacts folder and choose Add to Favorites. This will
add that folder to the Contacts view of the Navigation Pane in the "Other
Contacts" section. Now right-click the folder there and choose Properties.
Select the Outlook Address Book tab and check the box labeled "Show this
folder as an e-mail Address Book". Click OK. That will add it to the
Address Book when you click To on a new message. Use ToolsOptions in the
Address Book interface to establish the order the contacts folders will eb
searched. If someone enters a contact contained in that folder that is not
also in a folder preceeding it in the search order, it will be resolved from
that folder.
--
Brian Tillman

1. I am looking for the same feature to dump public to provate so that my
employees can easily sync these contact to their phones using activesync (for
example) - it becomes a mess for a group of people to have the same contact
information - so this would be very helpful.

2. Also my Other Contacts keep disappearing even though they are added as
favorites - any clue why?

Thanks

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

RSteph wrote:

Is there a way to display the 4 public contact lists, within the
contacts pane, and still have them show any new entries added by
another user?

Right-click a public Contacts folder and choose Add to Favorites. This will
add that folder to the Contacts view of the Navigation Pane in the "Other
Contacts" section. Now right-click the folder there and choose Properties.
Select the Outlook Address Book tab and check the box labeled "Show this
folder as an e-mail Address Book". Click OK. That will add it to the
Address Book when you click To on a new message. Use ToolsOptions in the
Address Book interface to establish the order the contacts folders will eb
searched. If someone enters a contact contained in that folder that is not
also in a folder preceeding it in the search order, it will be resolved from
that folder.
--
Brian Tillman