Company address book

[BigShyBear]

I just upgraded our 6 user Exchange 5.5 server running on Windows 2000 server to Exchange 2003 on the same server. Someone else had set up the server and I started working on it after he stopped responding to calls for help, so I am finding out how the server was customized as I go along.
We had a shared company address book with customer contacts in it, and after I upgraded the server I can't find it.
I can live with not recovering the data, but I need to start a new shared address book. How do I do I set up a shared address book that the users in house can see?
I tried doing a google search, but I couldn't find anything.
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I upgraded the server by exporting the 6 users mail out to a .pst file, then uninstalling Exchange 5.5 and <bold>deleting the folders</bold>, then installing Exchange 2003 and using exmerge to import the mail back in. Everybody has their old mail so that worked.

(a very embarrased)
BigShyBear

 

[BigShyBear]

Whoops - sorry I forgot to mention that all the users are locally connected, and are running Outlook 2002 or Outlook 2003
Bear

 

[MoobyCow]

A shared address book would be a public folder setup as an Address Book.

Then from in Outlook right click and select properties --> Outlook Address Book and check the box to "show this folder as an e-mail address book".

If you have some extra money a handy tool for syncing Personal and Public folders is:

http://www.diditbetter.com/Solutions/ContactXchange/overview.asp

They're supposed to be coming out with a server side version within the next couple of month.

 

[The2ndOmen]

Emails were being rejected for a few users whose mailbox are fairly new(one week old) It would kick back the error message below. The problem didn't seem to affect any of the old accounts on the exchange server. I did not see any problems on the server. Does anyone have any ideas. The problem seems to have went away after a reboot but want to know what the cause of the problem is.

USername on 6/8/2005 9:13 AM
The e-mail account does not exist at the organization this message was sent to. Check the e-mail address, or contact the recipient directly to find out the correct address.
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