Centralized Contact Lists

[AliasLS]

I am looking for a way to centralized a list of internal company email addresses as contacts within Outlook 2000 and Outlook XP. I am not using Exchange, just Outlook. Our internet provider is our POP3 and SMTP server. I am currently maintaining an Excel spreasheet to import into Outlook, but this is very time consuming. I have the clients setup with individual contact lists, but when an associate leaves or is a new hire, each client has to be updated individually with new or deleted info. Do I have to create a separate database to synchronize to? Any info or links would be appreciated. Thank you.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

You don't have many options:
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/share.htm

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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

I am looking for a way to centralized a list of internal company email

addresses as contacts within Outlook 2000 and Outlook XP. I am not using
Exchange, just Outlook. Our internet provider is our POP3 and SMTP server.
I am currently maintaining an Excel spreasheet to import into Outlook, but
this is very time consuming. I have the clients setup with individual
contact lists, but when an associate leaves or is a new hire, each client
has to be updated individually with new or deleted info. Do I have to
create a separate database to synchronize to? Any info or links would be
appreciated. Thank you.

 

[AliasLS]

Thank you Russ, for your link reference. I did find that link from another post that you replied to, and have decidedly resolved myself to a life of manually updating my users contacts for the short term, at least until we migrate from W2K server to a Win2003 server edition with Exchange. I was actually hoping that someone may have come up with an alternate solution maybe by scripting and/or Group Policy. I am not a technical guru but a somewhat curious 'wanna-be techie' if you will. I'm not using any scripts or group policies at the moment, but am needing to learn it anyway for certification purposes.
Thanks again

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

The lack of any good sharing solutions for smaller workgroups has been one
of Outlook's most longstanding shortcomings. I don't know of any solutions
anyone has developed beyond the ones listed at that site.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Thank you Russ, for your link reference. I did find that link from

another post that you replied to, and have decidedly resolved myself to a
life of manually updating my users contacts for the short term, at least
until we migrate from W2K server to a Win2003 server edition with Exchange.
I was actually hoping that someone may have come up with an alternate
solution maybe by scripting and/or Group Policy. I am not a technical guru
but a somewhat curious 'wanna-be techie' if you will. I'm not using any
scripts or group policies at the moment, but am needing to learn it anyway
for certification purposes.