http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/contacts/display-other-contacts-in-address-book/

Tom Yeager June 20, 2013 at 2:58 pm | Permalink | Reply

Many thanks to Diane Poremsky and to all of Slipstick for this method that I have used for over a year. I’d like to suggest a similar but, for me, more successful method of showing another’s contacts in an Address Book.

This procedure never results in the "Your mailbox has been temporarily moved…" message that frequently occurred with the published method. (On some computers, I was never able to get that to go away, before now.) Nor did it ever cause the Status Bar message “Online with Microsoft Exchange” rather than the preferred “You are connected to Microsoft Exchange” which I often saw regardless of the state of my Use Cached Exchange Mode setting.

My method was tested extensively on several OL2010 installations. A key to its success is that OL 2010 allows multiple Exchange accounts under one profile. So this method will not work with OL 2007, but, likely, will work with OL 2013, which I have not tested. The OL accounts sharing out their contacts were OL 2007 and OL 2010. The Exchange server was Microsoft’s Office 365 which uses Exchange 2013 for my accounts there.

Preliminary steps, unknown if necessary, include that the shared out contacts were not the primary contacts folder, but a separate folder. The contacts owner had her own private contacts folder and a separate much larger customer contacts folder that the entire office needed to see. A sharing invitation for the customer contacts folder had been earlier sent to the other users.

My steps are
1.) In Control Panel | Mail, create a profile pointing to your own Exchange mailbox. Then, as a 2nd account (not an additional address), add the mailbox of the person owning the contacts you need access to.
2.) In OL, right-click the other user’s Contacts folder, choose Properties, then switch to the Outlook Address Book tab. Make sure that the Show this folder as an e-mail Address Book box is checked. Under Name of the address book, change the displayname from Contacts (the default) to a name that will distinguish this address list, such as Joe’s Contacts if you’re in Joe’s mailbox.
3.) Close OL!
4.) In Control Panel | Mail, open the Properties of the profile. Click Email Accounts, then Remove the 2nd account. On your own account, click Change, then More Settings, then Advanced. Add the 2nd account in as an additional address.
5.) Restart OL using this profile. The other person’s contacts will now be included in the Address Book.