My company just purchased a small company and wishes to create a secondary address book for the 70 users of that company. They will not be migrating to our mail system at any time in the future.
It has been requested that the type ahead function work for this new seconday address book when addressing memos to these 70 users.
I have been reviewing Help topics such as Directory Catalogs and Directory Assistance.
Considering the primary function of this secondary address book will be to address memos, is there an easy way to set this up or do I need to implement directory assistance for this to work?
We have a 2 server clustered mail environment currently with one corporate address book. The servers are 6.5.1. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Subject: Directory assistance is probably the easiest way
There are some other ways you could do it such as creating a mobile directory catalog and distributing it to users through policies or making your names.nsf an extended directory catalog that includes the other domain but all of these things are more complex and have more issues than just setting up directory assistance.
HTH,
Rob Axelrod
Subject: Question on creating a secondary address book
Hi,
Robert said what I think.
But, You didn’t mencioned the other side of the story. The people from the small company will have the same feature?
If you need a kind of coexistance between both systems, the story can be different.
If you need help on that, give some details about the other mail system and we can try to help.
Daniel
Subject: RE: Question on creating a secondary address book
Rob & Daniel,
Thanks very much for your help. Apparently at one time or another Directory Assistance was set up as we have Directory Assistance DB’s on both mail servers. However, the DA DB name was just not listed on the server documents.
I have added the DA DB name and I’m guessing when I get the servers restarted, I’ll be on my way to creating the secondary address book and getting everything configured.
Sad to say, but we are not tremendously concerned about the way this is going to be handled on the other side. I have provided the other company with our information and from what I know at this point, they are using an external ISP to handle their SMTP mail and are currently using Outlook Express as their mail client.
This endeavor really is just to provide type ahead addressing functionality for a group of maybe 10 people at my company when sending mail to this new child company. We are not handling any IT duties and as I said, there are no plans for this new child to migrate to our Lotus Notes mail environment.
Thanks again for your help fellas!