How to coordinate wab, pab, contacts, and pst's?

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Al - 07 Mar 2007 06:00 GMT

I am converting a roaming profile to a local profile and am loosing contacts.
Sometimes I find personal address books (pab), othertimes I find windows
address books (wab), and always contacts.

I need a reliable method to combine all these types of "address books" in
one--hopefully contacts.

Thanks for your replies.

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 07 Mar 2007 10:17 GMT

Outlook has never used a wab. It has not used a pab for years. It only uses
Contacts. Which are you using?

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Al - 07 Mar 2007 14:47 GMT

I found a pab on one computer with a current date/time stamp, and a wab on
another with a current date/time stamp. Users are using Outlook 2002.

When I migrated the pab user off roaming profiles their contacts/address
book disappeared. I have not been able to successfully get it back. If they
add a user to contacts it shows up in the address book, but then cannot be
selected when adding email addresses using the "To:" button.

The local profile folder in their identity folder was stored on the local
drive, not on the network profile drive, so it should have been seemless.

> Outlook has never used a wab. It has not used a pab for years. It only uses
> Contacts. Which are you using?
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Brian Tillman - 07 Mar 2007 16:53 GMT

> I found a pab on one computer with a current date/time stamp, and a
> wab on another with a current date/time stamp. Users are using
> Outlook 2002.

Outlook 2002 cannot use the WAB. Outlook Express uses that. Outlook 2002
can use the PAB, but you'd be better off using the Contacts folder. You can
import the PAB into the Contacts folder.

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Al - 07 Mar 2007 14:51 GMT

So are contacts stored in their pst file?

> Outlook has never used a wab. It has not used a pab for years. It only uses
> Contacts. Which are you using?
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Diane Poremsky [MVP] - 07 Mar 2007 17:21 GMT

Yes, but if the user had an old pab attached to the profile, you'll need to
import it.

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