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by the young one

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Hi again everyone.

We've got all our users organised into OUs and Security Groups in AD. We want our staff to have their default group when they open the Outlook Address Book to be Staff, which is a Security Group.

We want students to have everyone in the same line of thinking.

When we look at the "show names from the" box it gives the options of ALL ADDRESS LISTS, ALL CONTACTS, ALL GROUPS, ALL USERS and PUBLIC FOLDERS"

I'm sure it's pretty simple, but it'd be nice to sort it out for the pc illiterate guy in management who keeps sending stuff to students instead of staff...ha ha...

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by the young one

Found out what it was...

You need to go to Outlook, Tools, Email Accounts and create a new Directory or Address Book.

You select Additional Address Books, Outlook Address Book, and bingo, when you open Outlook next time, you can view your own personal contacts from the Address Book option.

Automating this for every user obviously can't be set in your default user (network) cause it won't patch in the mail, so when you run the Custom Installation Wizard for Outlook (Administrative Installations Only), be sure to add the Outlook Address Book feature, so you don't have to visit every user and hand hold them.

Isn't Microsoft wonderful how they make these brave new changes and screw things up so well?

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