How to set up address book??

[jsteph]

My company has an address book for which they gave me a 'connection string' something like:
uid=somename;oU=people;o=somecompany

In my work machine's outlook address book, there is an entry with the above, along with another 'contacts' address book.

The problem is, I want to add this to my home machine (I'm on a vpn to work), but I can find nowhere to add a new address book, or even import one! I see where I can import Eudora or Outlook Express, but I want to not really import, but to link live to our company address book. Where have they hidden the option to add a new book?? Thanks,
--Jim

 

[mattjurado]

I'm assuming you are running Exchange? If so, you'll need to run the full Outlook, and add an Exchange profile.

Matt J.

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[jsteph]

Matt,
No, we don't have Exchange. Sorry, I should have mentioned that, but I'm not sure what email server we're using--it runs on a linux box that's all I know.

I had thought it would be more of a 'standard' thing--where you could have any major email client be able to point to any major email server's address book. I can understand that there might be a different config for different email servers--but I can't even find out where to begin with this.

As I said, I have an existing list entry for our office's address book on my work computer, with the connection parameters I showed, but I have no idea how it got there and I'm just trying to find out where this thing would be entered in the first place.
--Jim

 

[mattjurado]

It would be helpful if you could tell us how the desktops at the office are configured to access your mail server, and get you mailboxes, address book, etc...

Matt J.

Please always take the time to backup any and all data before performing any actions suggested for ANY problem, regardless of how minor a change it might seem. Also test the backup to make sure it is intact.

 

[jsteph]

Hi Matt,
The desktops all have Outlook, and the accounts are set up just like I set up my home machine with my ISP--I go to Tools|Accounts|Add email Account. Then I just put in the userid/pwd, and the incoming/outgoing strings, ie, server.ourcompany.com.

The only difference is that those strings aren't prefixed with what I see as a 'typical' prefix, ie, mail.server.ourcompany.com. Other than that, it seems very typical. That's why I thought the address book would be similar, but come to think of it, I never set up the 'Outlook Address Book' or the 'Contacts' book entries I see in all my instances of Outlook--those were there from the beginning.
--Jim