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Changing default contacts folder
How do you change the default contacts folder for Outlook 2003? I have my
e-mail delivered to an Outlook .pst file to keep the server free and clear due to the size limitations put on us. However, whenever I try to add a contact, it always adds it to the server contact list instead of my default ..pst file for e-mails. Thanks in advance!! |
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Changing default contacts folder
Phil wrote:
How do you change the default contacts folder for Outlook 2003? I have my e-mail delivered to an Outlook .pst file to keep the server free and clear due to the size limitations put on us. However, whenever I try to add a contact, it always adds it to the server contact list instead of my default .pst file for e-mails. Thanks in advance!! YOu SHOULD have the server (Exchange, I presume) as the default and your Contacts, Calendar, etc. should remain there. If you're limited on mailbox space, then moving your mail to folders in a PST is the best way to handle it, as you are doing. If you were to make the PST the delivery locaton you'll lose many (most?) of the features using Exchange gives you. -- Brian Tillman |
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Changing default contacts folder
Not sure what functionality I'm losing. I'm still able to function fully
with making the pst file the default file. "Brian Tillman" wrote: Phil wrote: How do you change the default contacts folder for Outlook 2003? I have my e-mail delivered to an Outlook .pst file to keep the server free and clear due to the size limitations put on us. However, whenever I try to add a contact, it always adds it to the server contact list instead of my default .pst file for e-mails. Thanks in advance!! YOu SHOULD have the server (Exchange, I presume) as the default and your Contacts, Calendar, etc. should remain there. If you're limited on mailbox space, then moving your mail to folders in a PST is the best way to handle it, as you are doing. If you were to make the PST the delivery locaton you'll lose many (most?) of the features using Exchange gives you. -- Brian Tillman |
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Changing default contacts folder
Phil wrote:
Not sure what functionality I'm losing. I'm still able to function fully with making the pst file the default file. Sharing your calendar, recording your free/busy information, access to messages via OWA, backups of your data (unless you do it), deleted items retention, and other functions are lost when your delivery location is a PST. -- Brian Tillman |
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Changing default contacts folder
First a big thanks for the help on a couple of issues now. My pst to deliver
to is 1.3 GB which is way too large for my server which allows 500 MB. I'll keep trying to skinny it down to get these functions available. Phil "Brian Tillman" wrote: Phil wrote: Not sure what functionality I'm losing. I'm still able to function fully with making the pst file the default file. Sharing your calendar, recording your free/busy information, access to messages via OWA, backups of your data (unless you do it), deleted items retention, and other functions are lost when your delivery location is a PST. -- Brian Tillman |
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Changing default contacts folder
Phil wrote:
First a big thanks for the help on a couple of issues now. My pst to deliver to is 1.3 GB which is way too large for my server which allows 500 MB. I'll keep trying to skinny it down to get these functions available. Like I said, continue to use your PST for storing messages, moving them there from the mailbox Inbox with rules, autoarchive, or manually. Everything else, leave in the mailbox. The vast majority of space in any data store is usually mail so leaving everything but mail in the mailbox shouldn't put much of a demand on the server quota. -- Brian Tillman |
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Changing default contacts folder
I actually found out how to do the contacts switch by accident. In the
Address Book, click Tools and then Options. This brings up a tile called Addressing. It contains a pull down menu called "Keep personal addresses in" which helps decide the default contact location for the contacts you use. Thanks again!! "Brian Tillman" wrote: Phil wrote: First a big thanks for the help on a couple of issues now. My pst to deliver to is 1.3 GB which is way too large for my server which allows 500 MB. I'll keep trying to skinny it down to get these functions available. Like I said, continue to use your PST for storing messages, moving them there from the mailbox Inbox with rules, autoarchive, or manually. Everything else, leave in the mailbox. The vast majority of space in any data store is usually mail so leaving everything but mail in the mailbox shouldn't put much of a demand on the server quota. -- Brian Tillman |
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