Sharing contacts of an account

Hey all, we have a sort of generic email account to go along with our
personal accounts. What I'm wanting to do is give each person access to the
generic account. I've got it all good to go for the most part. The one
issue I'm having now is getting the contacts folder from the generic account
to show up in the Address Book. I've gone so far as to log in as the generic
account and made sure the contacts is set to visible for all users but that
apparently isn't the key. Any ideas?

Pat wrote:

Hey all, we have a sort of generic email account to go along with our
personal accounts. What I'm wanting to do is give each person access
to the generic account. I've got it all good to go for the most
part. The one issue I'm having now is getting the contacts folder
from the generic account to show up in the Address Book. I've gone
so far as to log in as the generic account and made sure the contacts
is set to visible for all users but that apparently isn't the key.
Any ideas?

What type of account is this "generic" account? Is it an Exchange account,
a POP account, an IMAP account?
--
Brian Tillman

Ah sorry. Our email system runs off an Exchange Server. All using Outlook
2003.

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

Pat wrote:

Hey all, we have a sort of generic email account to go along with our
personal accounts. What I'm wanting to do is give each person access
to the generic account. I've got it all good to go for the most
part. The one issue I'm having now is getting the contacts folder
from the generic account to show up in the Address Book. I've gone
so far as to log in as the generic account and made sure the contacts
is set to visible for all users but that apparently isn't the key.
Any ideas?

What type of account is this "generic" account? Is it an Exchange account,
a POP account, an IMAP account?
--
Brian Tillman

Pat wrote:

Ah sorry. Our email system runs off an Exchange Server. All using
Outlook 2003.

Posted in this very newsgroup in 2005:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.outlook.contacts/msg/97a748fd8cc8ca05
--
Brian Tillman

Thanks Brian! That seemed to do the trick. One thing to note for people
that it doesn't necessarily say too clearly there is you need to follow those
steps for each computer that you want to have accessing the shared contact
folder. Worked like a charm though. Thanks for the link to that!

Pat

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

Pat wrote:

Ah sorry. Our email system runs off an Exchange Server. All using
Outlook 2003.

Posted in this very newsgroup in 2005:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.outlook.contacts/msg/97a748fd8cc8ca05
--
Brian Tillman

OK, responded before asking one final question. And I'm not seeing an option
to edit my last post so sorry for the double here.

My last question regarding this subject is how I can direct sent messages to
the correct folder. When sending messages, using the From field to choose
the generic account, it appears Outlook still puts those messages into the
Sent Items folder under my account, not the generic one. Any suggestions on
this? I've tried looking at making a rule for it but nothing seems to really
let me do that.

"Pat" wrote:

Thanks Brian! That seemed to do the trick. One thing to note for people
that it doesn't necessarily say too clearly there is you need to follow those
steps for each computer that you want to have accessing the shared contact
folder. Worked like a charm though. Thanks for the link to that!

Pat

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

Pat wrote:

Ah sorry. Our email system runs off an Exchange Server. All using
Outlook 2003.

Posted in this very newsgroup in 2005:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.outlook.contacts/msg/97a748fd8cc8ca05
--
Brian Tillman

Pat wrote:

My last question regarding this subject is how I can direct sent
messages to the correct folder. When sending messages, using the
From field to choose the generic account, it appears Outlook still
puts those messages into the Sent Items folder under my account, not
the generic one. Any suggestions on this? I've tried looking at
making a rule for it but nothing seems to really let me do that.

A rule should work. What have you tried?
--
Brian Tillman

See that's what I thought, but in going through their little "wizard" I
wasn't seeing any real options for directing messages sent with the generic
account to the Sent Items folder of the generic account.

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

Pat wrote:

My last question regarding this subject is how I can direct sent
messages to the correct folder. When sending messages, using the
From field to choose the generic account, it appears Outlook still
puts those messages into the Sent Items folder under my account, not
the generic one. Any suggestions on this? I've tried looking at
making a rule for it but nothing seems to really let me do that.

A rule should work. What have you tried?
--
Brian Tillman

Pat wrote:

See that's what I thought, but in going through their little "wizard"
I wasn't seeing any real options for directing messages sent with the
generic account to the Sent Items folder of the generic account.

Wouldn't the "through the specified account" condition work for you?
--
Brian Tillman

But see the Rules Wizard always wants to start the rule with "Apply this rule
after the message arrives". Technically the message isn't arriving. It's
simply placing a copy of the sent message into the Sent Items folder. Seems
I tried using this but it wasn't doing it.

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

Pat wrote:

See that's what I thought, but in going through their little "wizard"
I wasn't seeing any real options for directing messages sent with the
generic account to the Sent Items folder of the generic account.

Wouldn't the "through the specified account" condition work for you?
--
Brian Tillman