Use of WSS linked contact list greyed out in Outlook 2003

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Mordred201 - 23 Feb 2006 14:40 GMT

I have linked a contact list from our WSS server. I can see the list in other
contacts. When I open the properties and select the Address Book tab, the
option to use it as an address book is greyed out.

I have tried going to tools - email accounts - Add new address book and I
cannot select the the Sharepoint.Pst.

does anyone know of documentation or hints to enable the list as an address
book?

thanks for any Help

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Noel All - 23 Feb 2006 14:46 GMT

At the moment any linking with WSS is Read Only

>I have linked a contact list from our WSS server. I can see the list in
>other
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> thanks for any Help

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Mordred201 - 23 Feb 2006 15:01 GMT

that's fine,
what I am looking to do is when I create a new email message and select to:
I would like to be able to see the contacts tthat are in the linked contact
list and be able to select them.

I have a contact list for a few of our vendors, and would like to have a
central point to update the information and have it updated on the other
administrators machines.

I know that I could easily do this in Exchange, but I not the Exchange
administrator for this company and the we are a very small account so getting
a new address book created would be a logistical pain.

> At the moment any linking with WSS is Read Only
> >I have linked a contact list from our WSS server. I can see the list in
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Noel All - 23 Feb 2006 15:14 GMT

One way of doing it would be to create a Public Folder Contact Folder and
then copy all the contacts from the WSS to this folder, the only hardship
the other Administrators would need to do is enable it as an email address
book. Obviously you would now run into the issue of keeping it updated when
WSS is. Also a bit more troublesome is that you can start the email from the
WSS Contact folder by right clicking a contact item and selecting New
Message to Contact but this is only really feasible if you only sending the
one email, another method is to use the Ctrl+click to highlight the Contacts
and then from the Action menu select New Message to Contact.

> that's fine,
> what I am looking to do is when I create a new email message and select
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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 23 Feb 2006 15:03 GMT

Sounds like the Outlook Address Book service is not present in your mail profile. Use tools - email accounts - Add new address book to add it.

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>I have linked a contact list from our WSS server. I can see the list in other
> contacts. When I open the properties and select the Address Book tab, the
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> thanks for any Help

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Mordred201 - 23 Feb 2006 15:25 GMT

I had done that but apparently the previous 10 close outlook and reopen
didn't work. after the 11th time of closing Outlook, I was able to go in and
enable the linked contact list as an address book.

I didn't reboot my machine so maybe there was just some kind of time out
issue. thanks for the advice

> Sounds like the Outlook Address Book service is not present in your mail profile. Use tools - email accounts - Add new address book to add it.
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> > thanks for any Help

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Noel All - 23 Feb 2006 15:41 GMT

Wow that will teach me to look next time (thanks Sue) and sorry Mordred201
for giving you a bum steer.

>I had done that but apparently the previous 10 close outlook and reopen
> didn't work. after the 11th time of closing Outlook, I was able to go in
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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 23 Feb 2006 16:01 GMT

It's always a good idea to check Task Manager to see if Outlook.exe is still running, since a PDA sync tool or other utility may be holding it open.

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>I had done that but apparently the previous 10 close outlook and reopen
> didn't work. after the 11th time of closing Outlook, I was able to go in and
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