Public Folder as Address Book

[PAllen]

I have created a public folder containing contacts and I would like to share this with all users in my organisation so that they can choose the contacts from the address book.

The problem is that when I create the Public Folder I have to select "show this folder as an e-mail address book" in it's properties. It seems every user has to set this in order to view the contacts within the folder through the address book.

How can I select/force this option for all users?

Thanks

Peter

 

[isguyatlanta]

Unfortunately that is a function of outlook and not the server. I don't think you can force it for everyone.

 

[ChrisHirst]

To accomplish this you would have to add all the contacts as Custom Recipients to the Exchange GAL.

Chris.

 

[PAllen]

Thanks for the responses. We are using a utility to automatically update the Contacts via ODBC from an oracle database so I'm not sure if creating custom recipients in the GAL would solve our problem.

Is there a registry setting on the client that controls this setting?

Regards

Peter