From: "Paul Ranson" 

Thanks.

He's roaming with Outlook, so that's easy. He seems to think the public
folder stuff only works for faxes, which follows from a KB article. I'm
going to have to go and have a look.

Paul

"Rich"  wrote in message news:42e509ad{at}w3.nls.net...
   I don't know if you can add external addresses to the global address
book.  I don't see that used at Microsoft.  You can have a public folder
that is a contacts folder.  Put what you want there and everyone with
access to the folder can see it.  Security allows having separate rights
for read and write.

   It's not clear if your acquaintance is already roaming from machine to
machine or not.  This works from Outlook if Outlook is installed.  If he
wants this to work when Outlook is not installed, I would suggest Outlook
Web Access.  Installed and configured appropriately and email can be
accessed from anywhere with an Internet connection.

Rich

  "Paul Ranson"  wrote in message
news:42e4fe3d{at}w3.nls.net...
  A small business of my acquaintance uses Exchange/Outlook for primarily
  email. The guy has (at least) two problems.

  1. Setting up a company wide contacts list seems difficult or impossible.
To
  me it's reasonable to be able to stick someone's email address in an
address
  book and have every other user of the system be able to see it.
  2. Collecting all the contacts who work for a common business (for
example)
  together.

  There's also an issue where multiple addresses or numbers for the same
  person end up looking like multiple entries.

  He likes that he can sit down at any machine on the network, log in, and
get
  his own email.

  So in the context of an existing Windows based setup where should I look?
I
  think he'd be happy to change software, or install different components,
but
  obviously free is best (that's why I got asked, even though it's really
not
  my field)

  Paul

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