We are migrating our organization from Notes to Exchange 2007 and Outlook 2007. Since it's the first time I'm actually using Outlook, please pardon me if this is a silly question. In Outlook I can access the Global Access List through the small Address Book button on the top toolbar. I was wondering if there's a way to display GAL inside the Outlook Contacts folder. This way the GAL would be displayed in a much more pleasant and more manageable way from our users. Can this be done? I was somewhat able to achieve something similar by copying the GAL contacts onto a public shared folder, but this means I now have a duplicate address book, so this isn't the right solution unless I delete the GAL contacts and leave only the public folder. By the way. The address book we're dealing with is a big one (more than 2000 entries), and this is were we stored over the last few years all company contacts. Is it correct to store them in Active Directory, so that they show up inside GAL, or would be a public shared folder a better approach in this case? Thanks in advance rooy
Hey Rooy. To answer your question there is no gal for the Outlook contacts folder. Depending on how your Outlook profile is configured (for cached mode or Online mode) you will see different results when you click on the address book icon. Online Mode - When you click on the address book icon you are making NSPI calls to the active directory and reading all of the gal objects from the gal container. Cached Mode - When you click on the address book icon you are reading the gal entries that were downloaded by your client when you logged on that data. Your client will download new files every day to the Outlook client to keep them updated. For more information on how the OAB or your Outlook client works with OAB you can go to my blog site: http://blogs.msdn.com/dgoldman. As as administrator you can create a filter gal and address list if you wish and have just a subset of objects that you wish to see. 2000 users is very small and as for the information you are correct it is in the active directory. When you create a new user object it will get created in the domain naming context. Being that you are running Exchange 2007 when you create the mailbox we will call the RUS api's to stamp the user objects to make the mail enabled. This will also add the user to the default global address list so they will show up. Your best bet is to let them stay in the Global Address List and view them as you have been by clicking on the address book icon. -- This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Dgoldman http://blogs.msdn.com/dgoldman Download OABInteg (http://gotdotnet.com/Community/UserSamples/Download.aspx?SampleGuid=A2338E73-F521-4071-9B1D-AAF49C346ACD) "rooy" wrote in message news:70bbe5e9-c0d4-4d60-9193-d9e72703bedc@t54g2000hsg.googlegroups.com... We are migrating our organization from Notes to Exchange 2007 and Outlook 2007. Since it's the first time I'm actually using Outlook, please pardon me if this is a silly question. In Outlook I can access the Global Access List through the small Address Book button on the top toolbar. I was wondering if there's a way to display GAL inside the Outlook Contacts folder. This way the GAL would be displayed in a much more pleasant and more manageable way from our users. Can this be done? I was somewhat able to achieve something similar by copying the GAL contacts onto a public shared folder, but this means I now have a duplicate address book, so this isn't the right solution unless I delete the GAL contacts and leave only the public folder. By the way. The address book we're dealing with is a big one (more than 2000 entries), and this is were we stored over the last few years all company contacts. Is it correct to store them in Active Directory, so that they show up inside GAL, or would be a public shared folder a better approach in this case? Thanks in advance rooy
