RE: Adding contacts to the GAL?
- From: Adam Bertram <abertram@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 07:02:08 -0700
v-crinal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Crina Li (MSFT)) wrote in
news:BnZt#G$dFHA.2656@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
> Hi Adam,
>
> Thanks for your reply clarification. It seems that perhaps I have
> misunderstood your concerns in my previous reply.
>
> From your reply, you have configured a public folder which contained
> the global contact and you want to access the public folder via OWA
> when you click the Address Book on OWA. If I have misunderstood your
> concerns, please do not hesitate to let me know.
>
> As I know, you cannot add the public folder option to the Address Book
> on OWA. Although OWA is very similar with Outlook, it does still not
> have all functions of the Outlook. As a workaround, you may add the
> contact to the Active Directory. You may do as following:
>
> 1. Expand active Directory Users and Computers | Server name |
> MyBusiness | Users | SBSUsers.
> 2. Right click SBSUsers and select new a Contact.
> 3. Follow the wizard to add the contact who you have added in
> Public Folder. 4. Then the contact will be showed in GAL.
> 5. You may select GAL in OWA and access the contact.
>
> Hope the information help and I look forward to your reply.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Crina Li (MSFT)
>
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>| Subject: RE: Adding contacts to the GAL?
>| From: Adam Bertram <abertram@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>| || | Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs
>| Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 07:10:13 -0700
>| |
>| v-crinal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Crina Li (MSFT)) wrote in
>| news:zr9lkMxdFHA.2304@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>|
>| > Hi Adam,
>| >
>| > Thank you for posting in SBS newsgroup.
>| >
>| > According to your descritpion, I understand that you are unable to
>| > browse the Global Address List (GAL) via OWA. If I have
>| > misunderstood your concerns, please do not hesitate to let me know.
>| >
>| > As I know, when we are using OWA to find contact of GAL, we need to
>| > perform the following steps:
>| >
>| > 1. Open OWA and then click the Address Book icon.
>| > 2. In the Find Names - Web Page Dialog box, select Global Address
>| > List and type in his own display name in the "Display Name" box.
>| > 3. Verify if you can find this item.
>| >
>| > This is by design because the following reasons:
>| >
>| > 1. It can improve the performance. If you want to display the full
>| > list in OWA, it will access the Exchange and transmit a lot of data
>| > to the client through the internet. This will be definitely slow up
>| > the OWA performance since you have wait for a long time until all
>| > items are listed. 2. It is also for your company¡¯s information
>| > security.
>| >
>| > Although our Product Group has tried the best to make the OWA
>| > similar with Outlook, OWA does still not have all features of
>| > Outlook due to the limitation of the HTTP/HTTPS protocol. If you
>| > want to use the full features of the Outlook even the client is in
>| > the external network, we may configure the RPC over HTTP in
>| > Exchange Server 2003.
>| >
>| > Exchange Server 2003 and Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 support RPC
>| > over HTTP in Microsoft Windows Server 2003. RPC over HTTP provides
>| > access to your Exchange mailbox. You can use RPC over HTTP to
>| > remove the requirement for a remote user to connect to an Exchange
>| > computer by using a virtual private network (VPN) connection.
>| > Instead, a user who runs Outlook 2003 can connect directly to an
>| > Exchange computer over the Internet. RPC over HTTP permits an RPC
>| > client to establish a connection over the Internet. Outlook 2003 is
>| > an example of an RPC client. The RPC client establishes the
>| > Internet connection by tunneling the RPC traffic through the HTTP
>| > protocol. Typical RPC communication is not designed for use on the
>| > Internet. RPC communication does not work reliably through a
>| > firewall that is on the perimeter network. RPC over HTTP helps make
>| > it possible to use an RPC client with firewalls that are on the
>| > perimeter network. If the RPC client can make an HTTP connection to
>| > a remote computer that is running Microsoft Internet Information
>| > Services (IIS), that RPC client can connect to any server on the
>| > remote network. The server on the remote network must be configured
>| > to be accessible over the Internet by using RPC over HTTP.
>| > Additionally, the RPC client and the RPC server programs can
>| > connect across the Internet, even if both programs are behind
>| > firewalls that are on different networks. For more detailed
>| > information, please refer to the following KB articles:
>| >
>| > 833401 How to configure RPC over HTTP on a single server in
>| > Exchange Server 2003
>| > http://support.microsoft.com/?id=833401
>| >
>| > 841652 How to configure an RPC over HTTP topology on computers that
>| > are running
>| > http://support.microsoft.com/?id=841652
>| >
>| > Hope the information help. Please let me know if anything is
>| > unclear. Thanks again!
>| >
>| > Best regards,
>| >
>| > Crina Li (MSFT)
>| >
>| > Microsoft CSS Online Newsgroup Support
>| >
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>| >| Subject: Adding contacts to the GAL?
>| >| From: Adam Bertram <abertram@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>| >| Organization: Innovative Data Technologies
>| >| Message-ID: <Xns967C9E916CAD5abertramidatatechnet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>| >| User-Agent: Xnews/5.04.25
>| >| Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs
>| >| Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 13:35:16 -0700
>| >| |
>| >| I have a SBS2K3 server that I have been asked to add a lot of
>| >| contacts so that the users can combine all their contacts into one
>| >| single location.
>| > I
>| >| have created a public folder that works just fine from Outlook,
>| >| but they would like to be able to access these contacts from OWA.
>| >| The only
>| > options
>| >| I see in OWA is the GAL and the user currently logged in's
>| >| personal contacts. I do not see an option to pick the contacts in
>| >| a public
>| > folder.
>| >| Is there a way I can get a set of contacts available in OWA?
>| >|
>| >| Thanks for the help.
>| >|
>| >| Adam
>| >|
>| >
>| >
>|
>| I do not want to browse the GAL via OWA. I want to add a global
>| contact list and configure it so that users can access this contact
>| list via OWA.
>
>| I have configured a public folder with this information and Outlook
>| can access it fine, but I just need a way for OWA to access a this
>| public folder contact list when creating an email.
>|
>
>
Thank you for the response. However, adding the contacts into the GAL
isn't an option as this point, afterall. I have decided to go with a 3rd
party suite that will allow me to pick public folder contacts under OWA.
.
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