Re: Is it possible to show shared Contact on the Address Book?

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From: Sam Choi (Choi_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/16/04 

Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 11:58:59 -0700

Hi Sue,

Thanks for you help. I perform what you told me to do:

1) Create a new Outlook email user and set it up to use Outlook on my computer.

2) change the Outlook address book setting so that the contact will be shown on Outlook address book.

3) Close Outlook, then go to controal panel->mail, then add this secondary mailbox to my original mailbox. But at this point, I got a little bit of problem. Since I want to use my original mailbox and add this new mailbox as my secondary one, I first remove the new mailbox from the default Outlook profile setup, then I add my original mailbox back. The strange thing is that Outlook can't load my original profile when I am using the "check name" option to detect my original mailbox. It took me a few logoff and restart before I can get it back to work on my original mailbox.

4) After my original mailbox is back to normal, I go back to control panel->mail and try to add the new mailbox as my secondary mailbox. Then, I restart Outlook.

5) And when I am in Outlook, I can see both of my original mailbox and the new mailbox. But it turns out that when I am trying to expand the new mailbox, it said
"Unable to display the folder. Microsoft Office Outlook could not access the specified folder location." This doesn't happen when I am setting up this new mailbox solely in Outlook. I realize that whenever there are two mailboxs set up at Outlook, the secondary one usually doesn't work for some reasons.

I hope that you can help me on this. Again, I really appreciate your help and effort. Thanks.

Samuel Choi

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

> 1) "Profile" here means Outlook profile, not Windows profile. The Exchange
> Server service in the Outlook profile must point to the other user's
> mailbox, not your own mailbox.
>
> 2) I mean the same profile as in #1 above. You change it from pointing to
> the other user's mailbox to pointing to your own. Select the profile, then
> click the Email Accounts button to get to the screen where you edit the
> account settings. Use the More Settings button on the Exchange accounts
> settings dialog to get to the advanced settings.
>
> --
> Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
> Author of
> Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
> Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
> http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx
>
>
> "Sam Choi" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:1ceff01c4532f$23541da0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> > Hi Sue,
> >
> > Thank you so much for your help. I got some questions on
> > your suggestion:
> >
> > 1) You said I have to start with a profile that logs
> > directly into the other user's mailbox, what do you
> > acutally mean by that? Do I have to login to Windows
> > using the other user's account? Or you want to set up a
> > different Outlook profile/account while logging in as
> > myself?
> >
> > 2) From the 4th point in your post, you said that I have
> > to edit the "same profile", what do you mean by that?
> > When I open up Control Panel=>Mail, do I choose E-mail
> > Accounts, Data Files, or Profiles? I assume that your
> > want me to pick the Profiles section and click on "Show
> > Profiles", right? I don't quite understand how the whole
> > thing works and have no idea how to reach to the point
> > where you say "On the Advanced tab of the Exchange Server
> > service, add the other user's mailbox as a secondary
> > mailbox."
> >
> > Thank you much for your help again and hope to hear from
> > you soon. Thanks.
> >
> > Sam
> >
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >It's possible but not easy:
> > >
> > >1. Start with a profile that logs directly onto the
> > other user's mailbox,
> > >not your own.
> > >
> > >2. On the Properties dialog for the other user's
> > Contacts folder, make sure
> > >that it's set to display in the Outlook Address Book and
> > give it a display
> > >name other than contacts, such as Joe's Contacts.
> > >
> > >3. Close Outlook.
> > >
> > >4. In Control Panel | Mail, edit the *same profile* to
> > change the mailbox
> > >from the other user's to your own. On the Advanced tab
> > of the Exchange
> > >Server service, add the other user's mailbox as a
> > secondary mailbox.
> > >
> > >5. Restart Outlook, and you should see the Joe's
> > Contacts in your Outlook
> > >Address Book as well as your own Contacts folder.
> > >
>
> > >
> > >
> > >"Sam Choi" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
> > in message
> > >news:1cc9401c45308$af78f480$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> Our company is running Exchange 2003 with both Outlook
> > >> 2002 (XP) and Outlook 2003 client. One of the
> > questions I
> > >> am having is that I am wondering if UserA share his/her
> > >> contact with UserB, so that UserB has full right of
> > >> UserA's Contact on his/her Outlook 2003 program. So,
> > can
> > >> we still set it up so that UserB can see UserA's
> > updated
> > >> Contact in his/her address book? I know you can always
> > >> change the properties of your own Contact, so that it
> > can
> > >> be shown in the Address book, and you can even change
> > the
> > >> order of address list as who list to show first and
> > stuff
> > >> in the address book. But when I try to look at the
> > >> properties of the UserA's shared contact on UserB's
> > >> Outlook program, it doesn't show me that "Outlook
> > Address
> > >> Book" tab. And I think w/o that, it is not possible to
> > >> see that shared Contact on the address book. Is that
> > >> true? Thanks for any help!
> > >>
> > >> Sam
> > >
> > >
> > >.
> > >
>
>
>

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