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September 13th 06, 02:41 PM
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I have created 4 public contact lists. From the Administrator Account I have
added them to favorites, and clicked "show this folder as an e-mail address book". What I would like to do, if there's a way, is to apply these settings to all the accounts in the office. I'm wondering if I'll have to go to each computer and make these changes person-by-person, or if there's a way from either the Administrator account, or from the webmail server, to set these changes to apply to all accounts? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. For reference we are running MS Office Outlook 2003, and an Exchange server. 
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September 13th 06, 03:02 PM
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There is no server-based setting to do that. You could, however, write a script using the Outlook object model and ask each user to run it while Outlook is open.
-- 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 "RSteph" wrote in message ... I have created 4 public contact lists. From the Administrator Account I have added them to favorites, and clicked "show this folder as an e-mail address book". What I would like to do, if there's a way, is to apply these settings to all the accounts in the office. I'm wondering if I'll have to go to each computer and make these changes person-by-person, or if there's a way from either the Administrator account, or from the webmail server, to set these changes to apply to all accounts? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. For reference we are running MS Office Outlook 2003, and an Exchange server.
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September 13th 06, 03:22 PM
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That sounds like a manageable route. However, I've never written scripts for
Outlook before, would you know any good resources you could point me to, to help me getting started. i.e. some sample Outlook scripts, so I can get a feel for field names, passing parameters, etc. Thank you in advance for any direction you can offer to this end. "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: There is no server-based setting to do that. You could, however, write a script using the Outlook object model and ask each user to run it while Outlook is open. -- 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 "RSteph" wrote in message ... I have created 4 public contact lists. From the Administrator Account I have added them to favorites, and clicked "show this folder as an e-mail address book". What I would like to do, if there's a way, is to apply these settings to all the accounts in the office. I'm wondering if I'll have to go to each computer and make these changes person-by-person, or if there's a way from either the Administrator account, or from the webmail server, to set these changes to apply to all accounts? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. For reference we are running MS Office Outlook 2003, and an Exchange server.
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September 13th 06, 03:41 PM
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There's plenty of information in the Outlook VBA Help file on the objects, properties and methods you'll need. Some useful bits:
Script to start external Outlook automation http://www.outlookcode.com/codedetail.aspx?id=83 Code to return a folder based on a path http://www.outlookcode.com/d/getfolder.htm Method to add folder to Public Folder\Favorites MAPIFolder.AddToFavorites Properties to put it in the address book MAPIFolder.ShowAsOutlookAB MAPIFolder.AddressBookName -- 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 "RSteph" wrote in message ... That sounds like a manageable route. However, I've never written scripts for Outlook before, would you know any good resources you could point me to, to help me getting started. i.e. some sample Outlook scripts, so I can get a feel for field names, passing parameters, etc. Thank you in advance for any direction you can offer to this end. "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: There is no server-based setting to do that. You could, however, write a script using the Outlook object model and ask each user to run it while Outlook is open. "RSteph" wrote in message ... I have created 4 public contact lists. From the Administrator Account I have added them to favorites, and clicked "show this folder as an e-mail address book". What I would like to do, if there's a way, is to apply these settings to all the accounts in the office. I'm wondering if I'll have to go to each computer and make these changes person-by-person, or if there's a way from either the Administrator account, or from the webmail server, to set these changes to apply to all accounts? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. For reference we are running MS Office Outlook 2003, and an Exchange server.
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September 13th 06, 03:54 PM
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Thank you for yoru help, looking at the information you gave me, I should
have everything I need to write the script. "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: There's plenty of information in the Outlook VBA Help file on the objects, properties and methods you'll need. Some useful bits: Script to start external Outlook automation http://www.outlookcode.com/codedetail.aspx?id=83 Code to return a folder based on a path http://www.outlookcode.com/d/getfolder.htm Method to add folder to Public Folder\Favorites MAPIFolder.AddToFavorites Properties to put it in the address book MAPIFolder.ShowAsOutlookAB MAPIFolder.AddressBookName -- 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 "RSteph" wrote in message ... That sounds like a manageable route. However, I've never written scripts for Outlook before, would you know any good resources you could point me to, to help me getting started. i.e. some sample Outlook scripts, so I can get a feel for field names, passing parameters, etc. Thank you in advance for any direction you can offer to this end. "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: There is no server-based setting to do that. You could, however, write a script using the Outlook object model and ask each user to run it while Outlook is open. "RSteph" wrote in message ... I have created 4 public contact lists. From the Administrator Account I have added them to favorites, and clicked "show this folder as an e-mail address book". What I would like to do, if there's a way, is to apply these settings to all the accounts in the office. I'm wondering if I'll have to go to each computer and make these changes person-by-person, or if there's a way from either the Administrator account, or from the webmail server, to set these changes to apply to all accounts? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. For reference we are running MS Office Outlook 2003, and an Exchange server.
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September 13th 06, 06:17 PM
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I've got the code worked out, and tested, it's all working properly. I've got
it built in right now as a macro. Is there a way I can attach it in an e-mail and have people run it as a macro on their system, I would it be better for me to turn it into an executable and then send it out? Thanks in advance for your thoughts, and for your previous help. "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: There's plenty of information in the Outlook VBA Help file on the objects, properties and methods you'll need. Some useful bits: Script to start external Outlook automation http://www.outlookcode.com/codedetail.aspx?id=83 Code to return a folder based on a path http://www.outlookcode.com/d/getfolder.htm Method to add folder to Public Folder\Favorites MAPIFolder.AddToFavorites Properties to put it in the address book MAPIFolder.ShowAsOutlookAB MAPIFolder.AddressBookName -- 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 "RSteph" wrote in message ... That sounds like a manageable route. However, I've never written scripts for Outlook before, would you know any good resources you could point me to, to help me getting started. i.e. some sample Outlook scripts, so I can get a feel for field names, passing parameters, etc. Thank you in advance for any direction you can offer to this end. "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: There is no server-based setting to do that. You could, however, write a script using the Outlook object model and ask each user to run it while Outlook is open. "RSteph" wrote in message ... I have created 4 public contact lists. From the Administrator Account I have added them to favorites, and clicked "show this folder as an e-mail address book". What I would like to do, if there's a way, is to apply these settings to all the accounts in the office. I'm wondering if I'll have to go to each computer and make these changes person-by-person, or if there's a way from either the Administrator account, or from the webmail server, to set these changes to apply to all accounts? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. For reference we are running MS Office Outlook 2003, and an Exchange server.
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September 13th 06, 06:30 PM
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In a relatively information office environment, I'd probably code it as a VBScript .vbs file, store it on a network drive, and send out a link telling people how to run it.
-- 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 "RSteph" wrote in message ... I've got the code worked out, and tested, it's all working properly. I've got it built in right now as a macro. Is there a way I can attach it in an e-mail and have people run it as a macro on their system, I would it be better for me to turn it into an executable and then send it out? Thanks in advance for your thoughts, and for your previous help. "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: There's plenty of information in the Outlook VBA Help file on the objects, properties and methods you'll need. Some useful bits: Script to start external Outlook automation http://www.outlookcode.com/codedetail.aspx?id=83 Code to return a folder based on a path http://www.outlookcode.com/d/getfolder.htm Method to add folder to Public Folder\Favorites MAPIFolder.AddToFavorites Properties to put it in the address book MAPIFolder.ShowAsOutlookAB MAPIFolder.AddressBookName "RSteph" wrote in message ... That sounds like a manageable route. However, I've never written scripts for Outlook before, would you know any good resources you could point me to, to help me getting started. i.e. some sample Outlook scripts, so I can get a feel for field names, passing parameters, etc. Thank you in advance for any direction you can offer to this end. "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: There is no server-based setting to do that. You could, however, write a script using the Outlook object model and ask each user to run it while Outlook is open. "RSteph" wrote in message ... I have created 4 public contact lists. From the Administrator Account I have added them to favorites, and clicked "show this folder as an e-mail address book". What I would like to do, if there's a way, is to apply these settings to all the accounts in the office. I'm wondering if I'll have to go to each computer and make these changes person-by-person, or if there's a way from either the Administrator account, or from the webmail server, to set these changes to apply to all accounts? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. For reference we are running MS Office Outlook 2003, and an Exchange server.
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