How to coordinate wab, pab, contacts, and pst's?

[Al]

I am converting a roaming profile to a local profile and am loosing contacts.
Sometimes I find personal address books (pab), othertimes I find windows
address books (wab), and always contacts.

I need a reliable method to combine all these types of "address books" in
one--hopefully contacts.

Thanks for your replies.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Outlook has never used a wab. It has not used a pab for years. It only uses
Contacts. Which are you using?

 

[Al]

I found a pab on one computer with a current date/time stamp, and a wab on
another with a current date/time stamp. Users are using Outlook 2002.

When I migrated the pab user off roaming profiles their contacts/address
book disappeared. I have not been able to successfully get it back. If they
add a user to contacts it shows up in the address book, but then cannot be
selected when adding email addresses using the "To:" button.

The local profile folder in their identity folder was stored on the local
drive, not on the network profile drive, so it should have been seemless.

Outlook has never used a wab. It has not used a pab for years. It only uses
Contacts. Which are you using?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

I am converting a roaming profile to a local profile and am loosing
contacts.
Sometimes I find personal address books (pab), othertimes I find windows
address books (wab), and always contacts.

I need a reliable method to combine all these types of "address books" in
one--hopefully contacts.

Thanks for your replies.

 

[Al]

So are contacts stored in their pst file?

Outlook has never used a wab. It has not used a pab for years. It only uses
Contacts. Which are you using?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

I am converting a roaming profile to a local profile and am loosing
contacts.
Sometimes I find personal address books (pab), othertimes I find windows
address books (wab), and always contacts.

I need a reliable method to combine all these types of "address books" in
one--hopefully contacts.

Thanks for your replies.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I found a pab on one computer with a current date/time stamp, and a
wab on another with a current date/time stamp. Users are using
Outlook 2002.

Outlook 2002 cannot use the WAB. Outlook Express uses that. Outlook 2002
can use the PAB, but you'd be better off using the Contacts folder. You can
import the PAB into the Contacts folder.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Yes, but if the user had an old pab attached to the profile, you'll need to
import it.

So are contacts stored in their pst file?

Outlook has never used a wab. It has not used a pab for years. It only
uses
Contacts. Which are you using?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

I am converting a roaming profile to a local profile and am loosing
contacts.
Sometimes I find personal address books (pab), othertimes I find
windows
address books (wab), and always contacts.

I need a reliable method to combine all these types of "address books"
in
one--hopefully contacts.

Thanks for your replies.