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Sharing Windows 2000 phonebooks

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by colin alfke

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Is there a way to share a phonebook in Windows 2000 (Professional) among a group of users?

With NT4.0 you could simply select a different path for the phonebook, put it on a shared drive and everyone used the same, up-to-date, phonebook.

So far, the best way I've found is to copy the rasphone.pbk file to each PC. This is a pain as users forget to update the phonebook and end up using out-dated entries.

The next best way is to create a shortcut on the desktop to a shared rasphone.pbk on the network. This keeps it current, but there is no visual way to tell that you have a modem connection (even checking the box for display connection in task bar) and the only way to hang up is to click the shortcut again to hang-up. Also, you can't get the connection details using this method.

I would really like a way to mimic the functionality in Win NT4.0

Thanks

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by matt duggan

You could always package the phone list up, and deploy it using Group Policy. Any time you make a change, you just have to re-deploy the package with the updated file in it.

by colin alfke

But that is what I was trying to get away from - having to do something everytime one of the numbers changed. Besides, technically, I'm not the system admin (we now outsource) and I actually get in trouble for doing that type of thing....

Thanks anyway.

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