I tried this on the Outlook forum, and it was suggested that I try here for help.
My wife and I use a hosted exchange server. We each have a mailbox in our names (Rod, Wendy). In order to have one set of Calendars and Contacts, we have a 3rd account that we call Shared.
We use this for our Win7 phones. We each linked our email app to our own mail inbox, and we link the calendar and contacts to the Shared account. This way, we can see the same calendar events and when we add a contact it appears on both of our phones. (Too
many times, one phone battery goes dead and the needed contact is not available. So we set up the Shared account so that any contact added is in both phones)
The system works very well, but there is one issue.
On our computers, in Outlook 2010, we are able to select the Shared calendar and 'check' it while 'un-checking' our own calendar. This way, we see the Shared calendar by default.
However, we cannot figure out how to do this with our contacts.
The contacts that show up in each of our Outlook clients is the one for that client. Wendy sees her contacts and I see mine. We have added the Shared mailbox as an additional mailbox in both of our accounts, but it does not seem to help.
We are currently using Win8, but we had the same issue in Win7 before we switched.
Is there any way to have only the Shared contact list show up? Or at least, have it shown as the default address book?
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks, Rod