Hi, we use Outlook 2013 on Exchange 2013 on premise. I opened in my Outlook some shared contacts (File-->Open&Export-->Open other user's folder) beloning to other mailboxes, after giving me permission to these contact folders. What I need is searching among all shared contacts folders I have on ly Outlook, and it seems impossible, no matter what I set in Outlook Search configuration (current folder, current mailbox, all mailboxes), I can only search in the current selected contacts folder. Is it by design?

Hi,

It's not possible to search in multiple shared contact folders in Outlook. We can only get searching results from currect selected contacts folder.

Regards,

Steve Fan
TechNet Community Support