Master Category List in Outlook 2007

[Landon]

On my machine I click on the categories button and I see all of the
categories that are being used in our Exchange Public Folders, Contacts list.

How did my machine automatically pick these categories up from the Exchange
Public Folders, contacts folder that we have? I don't remember doing
anything to get these categories.
When I go to another machine that was upgraded to Outlook 2007, they only
have
six color categories, how do I force this machine to pick up theses cutom
categories?

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Right click on Mailbox-Username (root of your mail store) and select properties->upgrade to color categories.

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After furious head scratching, Landon asked:

| On my machine I click on the categories button and I see all of the
| categories that are being used in our Exchange Public Folders,
| Contacts list.
|
| How did my machine automatically pick these categories up from the
| Exchange Public Folders, contacts folder that we have? I don't
| remember doing anything to get these categories.
| When I go to another machine that was upgraded to Outlook 2007, they
| only have
| six color categories, how do I force this machine to pick up theses
| cutom categories?

 

[Landon]

Thanks for your reply!
I have already tried that and it doesn't work. When I click on "upgrade to
color categories" it gives me the warning that it may take some time do this,
do I want to continue, I click yes and nothing happens.
I seems that when this person opens some of the contacts from the Exchange
public folders, contacts folder, that some of the categories have shown up
under her categories list, but it says "not in the master list" on the side.

All users login to domain abcxyz.int, and connect to Exchange 2003 Standard
SP2.
All machines are XP Pro SP2 running Office 2007.
We only have 1 Exchane server.