Re: Exchange Contact List

Hello Lewis,

i) Is it possible to create an Exchange contact list, with a list of non-Active Directory users? I.e. I have a list of corporate contacts we want to put in a public address book, but they are not part of our company.

You can store three types of contacts in Exchange distribution lists:
- Active Directory Users / Contacts / Distributions lists
- Contacts from an Exchange public contact folder or Mailbox contact folder
- So called One-Off contacts, which consists just of a name and an email address

So, you have really two options here:
- Create Contacts in Active Directory to store the information about the external contact
- Store the contacts in an Exchange public folder


ii) I believe it's possible, but I just need to double check - can the Exchange contact information store be extended to hold more than simply contact details? i.e. can I add personalised fields to Exchange forms such as prefrable mailing list details?

You can create new fields on any type of exchange item. However, to manipulate them, you need some sort of a GUI. This can either be Outlook (by extending the outlook formulars), or a custom solution, which accesses the store via one of the possible APIs (MAPI, CDO, CdoEx or WebDAV).

Best regards,
Henning Krause

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