I have a Windows 2003 domain with an exchange system in place. In exchange in the Public Folders I have an address book which everyone has access to. What I would like to do is add the address book to the address book drop down menu list so when users create a new mail they can add a contact easily. I know this can be done manually on each client by right clicking on the address book in the public folder and ticking the box to add it to the address book list but I have several hundred users so this is not an option. Is there a way this can done centrally / globally (exchange profiles, reg edit, AD profile) so all users get this quickly and easily.

Contacts need to be created within Active Directory. You need to do something like use csvde. If these are contacts everyone needs, then they should be part of the GAL, not personal contacts. "Milk was a bad choice!"

The reason we are using Public Folders Contacts is so that a member of non-admin staff can keep the contacts up to date. The address book contains out councillors details and its a pain for us to keep up to date. I have set permissions for all staff in our authority to have read access and a select few to have author. I have added the Contacts to my "Show names from the" address book list but doing this manaual change for all users (several hundred)in the authority is not an option. Is there anyway of doing this in one go?

"The reason we are using Public Folders Contacts is so that a member of non-admin staff can keep the contacts up to date." Then restrict permissions to those contact objects within AD to that staff, so they can change just those objects as needed. You don't want this in personal contacts for everyone because anyone could then delete them from their address book accidentally. Also, every new user needing this in their contacts will need to add it in a manual fashion. You need to get them into Active Directory as Contacts, so they are part of the GAL. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/327620/en-us "Milk was a bad choice!"

Thanks for the info heropsycho2177. It makes sense doing it that way. Ill give that a go.