Picking contacts from multiple users

[John]

Hi

SBS 2003/Exchange 2003 with outlook 2003/2007 clients. Periodically I need
to extract contacts our of multiple users' contacts and de-duplicate them
into a final list. What is the mechanism I can use to achieve this?

Thanks

Regards

 

[Roady [MVP]]

You can import everything into an Excel or Access database and filter from
there, or copy everything into a new Contacts folder in Outlook and use a
duplicate remover tool.
See http://howto-outlook.com/tag/duplicate-removers

 

[John]

Hi Roady

Thanks. Is there a way to import contacts from several users (outlook
mailboxes) from a centralised location? I just want to make it easy for end
users so they could do the procedure periodically without having to go from
pc to pc.

Thanks again.

Regards

 

[Roady [MVP]]

As you are using Exchange, users can set permissions on their Contacts
folder(s) so that other people can access those folders on their own PC
without disturbing the owners of those folders (once the permissions has
been set).
See http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/permissions.htm