I make sure to backup the nk2 files (nk2 file are where those 'auto-fills' are stored, people hate losing those), and use public folders for official shared contacts. (Our mobiles phones can access the public folders, so that's a big bonus for us). There are some utilities out there that can merge/extract info from the nk2's as well. -Sam
________________________________ From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 11:58 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Dumb question - Contacts Been a while since I've made a fool of myself* and I hate to disappoint my fans, so.... We're running a pretty small environment.. Exchange Server 2003 Enterprise and maybe 20 users. For years, peoples' "address book" has consisted of just using the auto-complete in Outlook 2003 (and now Outlook 2007 in some cases.) But now, I'm growing more and more concerned about that technique and would like an easy and reliable way to have a central repository of contacts that everyone can use and update. My question is, what is everyone doing? I would assume a public folder that contains contacts and then is assigned as an address book in people's Outlook configurations, but then I've also heard that public folders don't exist in E2K7, which I may upgrade to at some point, so I'm not sure how to proceed. So, is there a third party solution that people know of and use, or is it just a public folder filled with contacts? Thanks, Evan * on this list, anyway. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
