robert_sun

Hi guys,
I am working on a project which program some add-in or change outlook express directly so that different outllook express on different computers can share the same window address book.

The situation is like this: I have two computers(Computer1 & computer2), which both have outlook express on a local network. But only Computer1 has all the contacts. Very often me and my colleagues have to fight for computer1 to update contact details or sending emails. I just thought if I could make two computer shares the same WAB, then two people can work on same WAB at the same time at the different computers.

Inintially I thought just by simply change the key path in the registry of the second computer: HK_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\WAB\WAB4\WAB FileName
from "C:\Documents and Settings\computer2\ApplicationData\Microsoft
\Address Book\computer2.wab"
to "\\computer1\shareddocs\computer1.wab"

so that the key in computer2 is pointing to the WAB location in computer1, the two outlook express on different computers can then share the same address book which is on computer1.

However, when me and other people tried to use outlook express on both computers at the same time, one doesn't respond, and another just simply crashes. I figured this was probably due to the way outlook express access the WAB that ddoesn't allow sharing. But I have no idea how outlook express access the WAB and how I can modify it so that two outlook expresses on the different computers can share accessing the same WAB at the sametime.

I am sorry to botherd you for this as I really run out of resource for help. I would very much appreciated if you could help me or at least tell me what tools do I need in order to do this and where to look for help.

kurifu

Consider using LDAP. It is meant for this kind of thing and I would like to add that it works very well!

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robert_sun

May I ask How do I use LDAP on Outlook express? I mean how do I change the outlook express' original way of accessing WAB into sharing WAB by using LDAP?