4 Profiles but I want ONE contact book

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Serge - 08 Nov 2006 13:47 GMT

Using outlook 2003, on a stand alone PC (no exchange server) and I have 4
different profiles but each has it's own contact address book.

I would like to have my 4 profiles to use the same Contact address, and when
i'm in either profile and add a new contact in the address book, it becomes
accessible to all of the other profile accounts.

thanks

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Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook] - 08 Nov 2006 14:12 GMT

You could try using the same PST file under each profile but then all the
mail would be available to each profile also.

> Using outlook 2003, on a stand alone PC (no exchange server) and I have 4
> different profiles but each has it's own contact address book.
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> becomes
> accessible to all of the other profile accounts.

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Serge - 09 Nov 2006 19:28 GMT

Hi

This solution isn't viable for me as I need the different profiles to be
kept independant of each other.

There must be a way to have the contacts "Sharable" among the different
profiles?

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> You could try using the same PST file under each profile but then all the
> mail would be available to each profile also.
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> > accessible to all of the other profile accounts.

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Brian Tillman - 09 Nov 2006 19:41 GMT

> There must be a way to have the contacts "Sharable" among the
> different profiles?

What makes you think there "must" be a way?

Another alternative is to copy the contacts to a separate PST and open that
PST in each of the profiles. You'll have to keep that folder up to date
manually or purchase a tool that will syncronize the two folders (i.e., the
default Contacts and the copy in the extra PST).

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