On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Roger Vicker, CCP <rv-tech@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
Hello,
I have a customer that is migrating from Domino to Exchange 2007 :'(
The IBM Partner doing the migration doesn't now how to migrate the
address book we created in Domino for the users to share all the
external email addresses in. We had this setup with Address Assistance
so it was very easy for the users.
Does anyone have a link on how to create this global address book in
Exchange 2007 and give everyone full access to it?
As Lukas noted, there is no clean way to do it in Exchange 2007. Prior to
E2007, this would have been a straight-forward application of a public
folder containing contacts. You can create a public folder in Microsoft
intends for this kind of function to be done in SharePoint now. If the
client has another Windows server installed, then the basic SharePoint is no
additional charge; it might be worth setting up just to get this function.
I have no idea if it is possible to have SharePoint running on the Exchange
server, but I would not do it.
I see a few other alternatives, none of which is clean.
1- Obviously, if the client has SharePoint, set up a contact list in
SharePoint. The security can be setup to allow just about any kind of
creation, update and deletion scheme you wish.
2- If the client has another intranet, setup a page or pages for the contact
info including email links. Depending on the underlying software, updating
it may have to be a central function.
3- Put the entries into the Exchange global address book. This will almost
certainly have to be managed by the administrators.
4- Write a PHP app on the iSeries!
As an aside, I might have the client put a *bunch* of pressure on the
IBM'ers to figure out something. There should have been some initial
functional survey which should have identified this issue, and this kind of
problem is exactly why one hires IBM instead of the local Windows guy at
half the hourly rate.
Good luck.
midrange.com
