Sharing Outlook Contacts sub-folders

[Michael Phillippe]

I have created several sub-flders under my Contacts
folder and want to share these with colleagues. We are
successful in sharing the Calendar and the higest level
Contatcs list by setting permissions in the Properties
area,but it does not work for Contacts sub-folders.

Is this function supported? And, what are we doing wrong?

We are running Exchange 5.5 and Office/Outlook XP.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

To access a shared folder that isn't one of the folders listed on the File | Open | Other User's Folder dialog, the mailbox owner needs to grant Reviewer permission to the root of the mailbox, as well as appropriate permission on the folder.

The user who needs access then goes into Tools | Services, brings up the properties for the Exchange Server service, and on the Advanced tab, adds the mailbox.

After that, the user will see in the folder list all those folders in the secondary mailbox to which he/she has access and can add any of those folders to the Outlook Bar. See http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/links.htm#addtobar.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.slipstick.com/books/jumpstart.htm