Hey Our CEO loves the Outlook 2003 Contacts interface areabut hates the standard Outlook Address Book, and so has mandated that we "expose" our GAL through Outlook's Contact area. Numerous people in IT have tried to explain to him that "Contacts" is designed for "Personal Contacts", but he is not a man to be put off, and he is convinced he has seen this done in other organisations. None of our administrators or other IT staff know how this could be done. Are there any products out there that I could look at? I tried writing a .Net app to do it, but have hit numerous snags. While I have it working, it only works on a "per user" basis, so would have to distributed to everyone in the organisation and scheduled to run on a regular basis. It's also dreadfully slow, taking several minutes to complete each time it's run. I am using the Primary Interop Assemblies (PIA) Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook namespace to create the Contact entries. Please note that I am not an administrator. I am just a poor developer who was sitting in the wrong meeting and got lumped with the job of trying to implement this. Thanks for the help Alec

Hey Our CEO loves the Outlook 2003 Contacts interface areabut hates the standard Outlook Address Book, and so has mandated that we "expose" our GAL through Outlook's Contact area. Numerous people in IT have tried to explain to him that "Contacts" is designed for "Personal Contacts", but he is not a man to be put off, and he is convinced he has seen this done in other organisations. None of our administrators or other IT staff know how this could be done. Are there any products out there that I could look at? I tried writing a .Net app to do it, but have hit numerous snags. While I have it working, it only works on a "per user" basis, so would have to distributed to everyone in the organisation and scheduled to run on a regular basis. It's also dreadfully slow, taking several minutes to complete each time it's run. I am using the Primary Interop Assemblies (PIA) Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook namespace to create the Contact entries. Please note that I am not an administrator. I am just a poor developer who was sitting in the wrong meeting and got lumped with the job of trying to implement this. Thanks for the help Alec

Hey Our CEO loves the Outlook 2003 Contacts interface areabut hates the standard Outlook Address Book, and so has mandated that we "expose" our GAL through Outlook's Contact area. Numerous people in IT have tried to explain to him that "Contacts" is designed for "Personal Contacts", but he is not a man to be put off, and he is convinced he has seen this done in other organisations. None of our administrators or other IT staff know how this could be done. Are there any products out there that I could look at? I tried writing a .Net app to do it, but have hit numerous snags. While I have it working, it only works on a "per user" basis, so would have to distributed to everyone in the organisation and scheduled to run on a regular basis. It's also dreadfully slow, taking several minutes to complete each time it's run. I am using the Primary Interop Assemblies (PIA) Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook namespace to create the Contact entries. Please note that I am not an administrator. I am just a poor developer who was sitting in the wrong meeting and got lumped with the job of trying to implement this. Thanks for the help Alec