how to use adresses from a public address book in OWA

[giaccotto]

For a small company (4 empl) I use Public Contacts to share the company-wide adresses. 1 person takes care of this list. I configured their Outlook 2003 clients to first look in this folder and added this folder to their addressbook. Works perfect.
Problem: in webmail (owa) they are able to view the public folder, but they cannot use is for sending mail like in Outlook 2003 client (they only can choose between Contacts & General Addresses). This is very important for them, cause 3 of the 4 work a lot from outside.
Using 'General Addresses' (translated from Dutch) seems no solution for me, cause, by my knownledge, this list can only be generated by the system administrator (that's me), so this is not flexible.
Anybody a solution for this?

 

[58sniper]

Why aren't you using the Global Address List, which has all employees by default? That's available to Outlook and Outlook Web Access.

Pat Richard
Microsoft Exchange MVP
Contributing author Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: The Complete Reference

 

[giaccotto]

Thanks for your reply.
By my knowledge, the Global Address List can only be edited by the system administrator via the Active Directory. So, they need me to edit this list. That's not an option cause I'm external. This seems not be flexibel enough.
Or am I wrong...?

 

[58sniper]

You can be delegated rights to make changes. There are also third party web based solutions that allow for AD changes.

Pat Richard
Microsoft Exchange MVP
Contributing author Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: The Complete Reference