Just another idea...Let you users maintain the contacts in the public folder and use a VB Script that runs nightly or whenever (when the contacts folder changes?) that creates a Custom Recipient for each contact.
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But only if I get superpowers! --------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Bob Peitzke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 5:37 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Searching shared contacts The people who are maintaining our lists of business contacts that we'd like to auto-resolve are internal employees, but not systems people. I don't want them to be able to update the GAL, and I don't want the business contacts cluttering it up. - Bob -----Original Message----- From: David N. Precht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 5:23 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Searching shared contacts Are they outside people? -----Original Message----- From: Bob Peitzke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 20:06 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Searching shared contacts Mainly cuz we in IS don't want to be the ones maintaining these contacts. They are business relationships best maintained by the people involved, and we don't want them messing with our GAL. Bob -----Original Message----- From: Drewski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 10:04 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Searching shared contacts Why not simply add those contacts INTO your GAL? -- Drew ******************************** Visit http://www.drewncapris.net! Go! Go there now! Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. --Benjamin Franklin -----Original Message----- From: Bob Peitzke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 11:56 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: FW: Searching shared contacts (Repost [with added comments], as nobody gave any suggestion. Feel free to participate in my survey.) [__] Wrong DL [__] Stupid question [__] Weak deodorant [__] See my erudite answer below [__] F*** Off Bob [__] Other _______________________________ TIA Bob Peitzke -----Original Message----- From: Bob Peitzke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 2:14 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Searching shared contacts We have a couple of contacts folders in Public Folders, and we would like our users to be able to automatically resolve addresses from them as well as from the GAL. Per Q161851 we should have them add the desired contacts folders to their service addressing folders list. I found that once I checked "Show this folder as an email address book" in that public folder's properties, it showed up in the "Tools > Services > Addressing > Add" list, so I could select it as an additional source to search. But I read in Q246692 that these public folder contact searches are slow because they are sequential. I could export them to pst's, and have the users open those, and then presumably those would also show up in the list of addressing sources they could select from. But wouldn't searching pst's be slow too? My other thought was to import them into the contacts folder of a mailbox, and share it with everyone, but while I could get to that in a separate Outlook window via File > Open > Other user's folder, I could not get it to show up in my own Outlook folders, which I think I need to see it in "Tools > Services > Addressing > Add" to add it to the search list. [My testing showed no slowness in resolution of GAL names, as I had it listed before these pub folders. It did not auto-resolve names from the latter, but did when I clicked [Check Names], still better than copy & paste.] Is there a [more efficient] way to accomplish my goal? 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