Product - WinPST Share Outlook - Practical Examples

The pop-up page shows you two sections: One for specifying the details of the folder, the other for specifying the access rights to this folder.

The section to specify the details of the folder:

You can give your new public folder a name, in this case " Company Contacts" and it also lets you choose the type of folder to create, in this case a Contact folder. If you have nested folders you can also choose which one this new folder should be underneath, by selecting the relevant folder from the Parent drop down list.

The section to specify the access rights to this folder:

In this example, we have selected four users and given two of them Read/Create permissions, and two of them Read/Create/Edit permissions. Press OK to complete the task.

In Outlook, after synchronizing, you will see the new public contacts folder under a folder called "Public Folders". Any public folders you create will be here. In this instance, Jack Meyer and Chris Snow will be able to read and create contacts in the "Company Contacts" public folder. While Edhy Rijo and David Berendes will have the ability of read, create and edit.

This new public contacts folder can now be included with the Outlook Address book so that when you write an email, Outlook will include this folder when it looks for addresses to try and auto-complete recipient addresses.

To do this, right click on the folder and select properties. Outlook 2000 - 2007 have a dialog similar to this picture.

Select the Outlook Address Book tab and check the box to "Show this folder as an e-mail Address Book".

Outlook will now additionally use this folder to resolve email addresses.