Re: Home Intranet - Link to Outlook Contacts?

["Chris Bond" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You've got five options here, listed by my preference.

1.  Plaxo (www.plaxo.com) - let it do the hard work for you not sure=20
if you can call there pages from your intranet might be worth=20
checking with them.

2.  Import/Export Routinue - you could write a bit of code so you=20
just press a button on your outlook toolbar and get it to export to=20
a mysql/postgresql/mssql db.  Then respectively you could write a=20
php/asp/aspx pages to display the data.

3.  Exchange Server (get an action pack as its only =A3200 a year) -=20
still involes writing custom pages to view the data but can be done.

4.  SharePoint - has a full api for this sort of stuff what you want.

5.  Install Outlook on your server and use COM via asp to get the=20
data.  Crappest way ever to do it as its prone to crashing etc.

Im sure theres a lot more solutions than that too, thats all i can=20
think of, off the top of my head.

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "keyvan2r" <keyvan@e...> wrote:
> We have set up Exchange Server on our office network so that it is=20
> accessable from a browser so that users can view their email and=20
> contacts (primary contact folder only) from any internet enabled=20
pc=20
> by going to the IP address and logging on to their accounts in=20
> Outlook.
> I am not certain that the same can be done with Outlook without=20
> Exchange server. I will ask the IT guys at the office.
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> Keyvan