Sue,

Thanks for your help.

99% of users are using outlook 2003. any alternate way?
what's the registry change? I did not see in the link.


"Sue Mosher [MVP]" wrote:

#2 can be done easily with the Outlook 2007 PropertyAccessor object or with
any low-level API addressing Outlook.

An alternative might be to use the registry substitution method (see
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?ID=39) to make the new form the
default for all contacts, but that can get messy if the form is no longer
available at some future date.

If all users were using Outlook 2007, an add-in using a form region would be
the preferred solution. Because Outlook 2003 is in the picture, form regions
aren't an option here, but an add-in built with the Add-in Express tool
might be a more stable, reliable solution to whatever business need has
raised the idea of using a custom form.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54


"Karl Timmermans" wrote in message
...
Sue (or anyone else) may offer a better and/or more complete answer but
from
where I sit -

#1) The form should be published to the Exch Org Forms library

#2) If you do not want to go to each person's computer - then the Exch
admin
will need to access each individual's contact folder to change the
"Default
Msg Class" for the folder to the new custom form name. Not aware of
anything
off hand that allows changing this programmatically and/or in bulk since
the
folder DefaultMsgClass property is read-only.

#3) The real problem (and time consuming effort) is going to be accessing
all
the user's contact folders to change the existing contacts since
DocMsgClass
(as does the current equivalent CG Toolkit MsgClass function for that
matter)
requires that the target contact folder appear in an Outlook profile (I
believe I'm
correct on that) which would mean adding each user to a profile and then
processing the contact folder. That could take a while with 800 users and
would
be a tedious process but may still be easier/faster than going to each
user's
workstation.

"ed" wrote in message
...

"(a) how do I change multiple user contact folders to use a new
message class for both new and existing contacts in each user's contact
folder without going to each user's computer?"

We are using exchange2003/outlook2003/outlook2007.
we need to change users's oulook default contact folder. Which form
library
should I publish to and every user's default contacts folder to use the
new
customized folder?


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