I think as long as you are upgrading from an earlier version of Exchange that had PF's you will still get PF's.
Personally I think it's rather short sighted (read that as STUPID) to get rid of PF's as they are a very easy way to share information (such as this list) without having to build a completely separate infrastructure for SharePoint. But I'm just a stupid SA. Obviously the people in the vacuum at MS know better. John H. Matteson, Jr. Systems Administrator/ITT Systems Forward Operating Base Orgun-E Afghanistan DSN - 318 431 8001 VoSIP - (308) 431 - 0000 Iridium SatPhone - 717.633.3823 Roshain Mobile - 079 - 736 - 3832 "So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work." -- Peter Drucker From: David [mailto:blazer...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 10:01 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Dumb question - Contacts Public folders still exist in E2K7, and don't appear to be going away. MS would like everyone to abandon them and move to Sharepoint solutions, but the public folders are still a very simple solution.... David On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Evan Brastow <ebras...@automatedemblem.com> wrote: 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. -- David _____________________ A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune. Horace (Ancient Roman Poet. 65 BC-8 BC) ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
