We have four desktop computers on a netowrk served by SBS2008 and Exchange Server. Each is running Outlook for email. However, the local address books on the desktops do not seem to be accessible to Outlook: a new email address put into the address book does not come up when the first few letters are typed in the addess box. I wonder if outlook is 'looking at' a global network address book. If so, how do I change this?

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a new email address put into the address book does not come up when the first few letters are typed in the addess box. Hi Michael, Do you mean the AutoComplete name suggesting feature? Please check whether the following setting is enabled or not. Outlook 2007: Tools->Options->E-Mail Options->Advanced E-mail Options->Suggest names while completing To,Cc,and Bcc fields.Frank Wang TechNet Community Support

Frank Thanks for this - We're using Outlook 2003 but the question is still good: the 'suggest names' box is ticked and it comes up with other addresses: it only comes up with a new one if you send an email by putting the new address in manually: after that it's fine. This suggests to me that for some reason it's not 'looking' in the address book at all but just relying on addresses in sent items. I can't find any menu item which helps you to control which dataset is consulted by this feature. I know there is a 'global address book' in MES, but by the look of it we've only populated it with a small number of addresses, and from what i've been able to glean by reading blogs etc it isn't straightforward to do so. There would be some advantage in having a comprehensive address book shared by the four users, but not if it's a pain to keep up to date. Mike Michael 2000

Le - thanks for this, maybe an option. Presume you need to have the folder on a network drive. How do you map Outlook to the folder???? Michael 2000