Exchange 2003 Offline Address book and Mac users

[valnren]

I am an Exchange admin managing an Exchange 2003 infrastructure. I
have little to no Mac experience. Is there any way to provide Mac
users who are not on our domain a copy of the our offline address book
to make sending to our users easier for them.

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

I am an Exchange admin managing an Exchange 2003 infrastructure. I
have little to no Mac experience. Is there any way to provide Mac
users who are not on our domain a copy of the our offline address book
to make sending to our users easier for them.

BY that you mean what?? Their own address book? (It's cached and should
be accessible when they are offline) or the GAL??

I don't believe anything from the GAL is cached and I dont; really see
how it could be searched while offline :-(

If you were talking about their own Exchange address book, it shouldn't
be an issue,

Corentin

 

[William Smith [MVP]]

I am an Exchange admin managing an Exchange 2003 infrastructure. I
have little to no Mac experience. Is there any way to provide Mac
users who are not on our domain a copy of the our offline address book
to make sending to our users easier for them.

Entourage doesn't have that feature available. However, if the users
have an Internet connection outside your company then they can still
access the GAL for lookups with the help of an AppleScript. Have a look
here:

"Accessing the Global Address List from Home"
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/exchange/exchangelookups.html>

Users can always add frequently messaged contacts to their Contacts
list, which does remain cached locally.

Hope this helps!

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bill

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