Sharing contacts on our LAN

[btulskie]

I just purchased Office 2003 Professional. I was hoping that outlook 2003
with the business contacts management software would replace ACT. I can't
figure out how to share our customer database on the server so that everyone
would be working off the same database. How is this done, if possible?
thanks

 

[Chrislango]

I just purchased Office 2003 Professional. I was hoping that outlook 2003
with the business contacts management software would replace ACT. I can't
figure out how to share our customer database on the server so that everyone
would be working off the same database. How is this done, if possible?
thanks

 

[Chrislango]

You might want to have a look at Osasync which enables all contacts, emails
etc to be shared over a LAN. I've been using it for two or three years and
it works fine.

 

[Oliver Vukovics]

Dear btulskie,

On this site is an article on various ways to share Outlook data:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA011477571033.aspx

You will also find a list of third-party sharing tools:
http://www.mapistore.com/Outlook/Groupware
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/share.htm

The BCM (Business Contact Manager), can only share Contacts with 5 users but
not PST files or other folders as contacts folders. The BCM is a .NET
database and not based on PST files.

To share the BCM you will need this update:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/outlook/contactmanager/prodinfo/update.mspx