Hi Everyone Not sure if this is the correct forum to post in but it seemed the most appropriate. Apologies if it is not. I am running SBS 2011 and hence Exchange Server 2010. I have approximately 50 users on a sinlge site all connected to the single Exchange Server with a mixture of Outlook 2007 & 2010. I would like to create a number of global address books eg. one containing suppliers and another containing customers. Ideally these would appear in the contacts view of Outlook. All users in the organisation should be able to add entries into this list (event better if I could restrict this to a limited number of users via group policy/group membership) I tried creating a new address list from within exchange but this is only accessible from the address book button (and also I could not add any new entries from Outlook.....but I did not look into this further and I am sure it is very simple to rectify) I was wondering if what I am trying to do is possible. Also, is the way I am trying to do it best practice or is there a better method I should be using. This seems like it should be simple so I must be approaching it in the wrong way. Thanks for reading this.

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Exch can't add to the contacts, I would create 2 address lists and configure the address list based on a filter like a custom attribute1 (suppliers) custom attribute 2 (customer) which add's them to the appropiate Address List. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/bb738157(EXCHG.80).aspx An Exch Org has to do the above (unless you mess about with RBAC which isnt worth doing for this). As for creating the contact, use RBAC and let those user create the contacts or just give the a built in role - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd876915.aspxSukh

OK Thanks for the reply. I need to digest those articles and decide the best approach. Thanks for the advice.