We have just moved from an Oracle mail environment where this was possible and so would like to know if sharing contacts is a supported feature of Exchange 2010/Outlook.
The users' have been given full control of the contacts as they are able to create/modify/delete contacts when they actually select the contact objects from the shared mailbox. Navigate to Office 365 Admin Center and find Shared Mailboxes options under Groups. "Outlook Address Book" tab isn't even there. You’ll need to be an administrator in Office 365 to be able to create a Shared Mailbox. The issue I am having is that the there is no such tick box. Other threads on the net have suggested just going into the properties of the Contact item on the shared mailbox and ticking the "Show this folder as an e-mail Address Book". The contacts list to show up in their address book. Both on-prem Exchange and Office 365 Mailboxes can be converted to shared either using PowerShell or using the Exchange Admin Center. Therefore Microsoft developed features in Office 365 such as public folders and shared mailbox. Some shared mailboxes are used by about 10 different users and having to get them to create a new profile for the shared mailbox seems a little full on just to get The very idea of work in the cloud stems from the need of data sharing any time we want and wherever we want. The contacts list for the shared mailbox disappears.Įven if we did get this method to work every time, it seems a little long winded. The issue with this however is that it only seems to temporarily work - after closing the profile for the shared mailbox and opening the user profile it will only appear in the address book for the first time after closing and reopening Outlook I have had a search on the net for an answer to this and the only thing I can get to work to is creating a new profile for the shared mailbox and renaming the contacts as discussed in the following thread: In the To box, enter the name of the recipient for the sharing invitation message. Then, in the Share group, click Share Contacts. The issue we are having is trying to get the contacts list on the shared mailbox to show up in the users address book when sending an email. In People, in the folder pane, click the contact folder that you want to share with a person in your organization.
The shared mailbox is added as as additional mailbox to the users' own profile as they have been delegated full access to manage
Publishing Editor: Allows users to create, read, edit, and delete all items and create subfolders. Therefore, I can confirm that they have access to. anyone other than the mailbox account owner). If they click on the People category in Outlook 2013, they can see Contacts, under My Contacts, from both their user mailbox () as well as from the shared mailbox.
We have a large number of shared mailboxes within our organisation that contain their own contacts lists. These shared mailboxes automatically show up when the user logs into Windows and opens their Outlook 2013. We have recently migrated to an Exchange 2010 environment, our clients using Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2010.