Yes, I know that. I just don't do it often enough, and, after a while, it seems that every batch of those addresses listed has an error or no longer needed address in it.
\\Steve// From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:administra...@waleague.org] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 11:11 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dumb question - Contacts The delete key is your friend for errors or useless addresses in your NK2 file. When a bad or obsolete address shows up in the autofill, just use the arrow key to highlight the bad one and hit the delete key. Gone until the next time you type the whole thing in. Bill From: Steve Szabo [mailto:steve...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 4:38 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dumb question - Contacts We have contact info all over the place, so you can eventually find it <g>. We each have our own contacts in Outlook's contact folder, of which mine is probably the most extensive with regard to clients and vendors. We also have a public folder called Clients, and one called Vendors (oh, we are so original) and under these are subfolders of each client and vendor we have had email communication with. When we went to Exch2007, we just migrated everything over, and create new public folders as needed. You are definitely asking for trouble if the auto-complete is the only address book. I just gave myself a new (used really-there is no such thing as a new machine in our environment unless it is for a client) and left my *.NK2 file behind. Too many errors and useless addresses in it. Was glad to be rid of it, but now, I need to remember enough of the address for the contact search to kick in with any degree of accuracy. A couple of weeks, and I'll have a decent list from my new *.NK2 file. You'll need to get your people using their Outlook Contact folders at least-they are good for lots of things, not only e-mail addresses, but physical addresses, phone numbers, notes for that person, etc. If necessary, though I have never found it to be so, you can create a public folder of contacts as well, for those contacts that everyone needs. \\Steve// From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 12:58 PM 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 ~
