I need help to display shared contacts/address book in my Address
Book. I am using Outlook 2003.
The post below explains how to display it but in a convoluted way. Is
there a better way to accomplish this task?

Any advice appreciated,


The process of adding another user's Contacts folder to your own
address book display is somewhat involved. You will need to be able to
create -- at least temporarily -- an Outlook profile that opens
another user's mailbox as the primary mailbox. Proceed with these
steps while logged in under your own Windows account, not the other
user's:

1. Create an Outlook profile that connects directly to the other
user's mailbox, not your own, and start Outlook with that profile.

2. On the Properties dialog for the other user's Contacts folder, make
sure that it's set to display in the Outlook Address Book and give it
a display name other than contacts, such as Joe's Contacts.

3. Close Outlook.

4. In Control Panel | Mail, edit the *same profile* (i.e. the one from
Step 1) to change the mailbox from the other user's to your own.

5. Log in with the same profile, on the Advanced tab of the Exchange
Server service, add the other user's mailbox as a secondary mailbox.

6. You should see the Joe's Contacts in your Outlook Address Book as
well as your own Contacts folder.

--
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