Address books Outlook 2000/2003 and Exchange 2000

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We're in the process of changing the Exchange 2000 machine for an
Exchange 2003 one. In preparation for this I updated all the clients
from Outlook 2000 to Outlook 2003 which has gone on without too much
hassle.

However, when now digging through the bowels and intricate details of
Outlook 203, I've found a few things that Outlook 2000 did offer me and
Outlook 2003 seems to completely ignore (or has hidden away under other
portions). One of these I find particularly annoying, and since I
couldn't find anything regarding it after a bit of searching, I'd like
to enlist the help of this group.

Under the Exchange 2000 machine I've created a list of address books
based on certain criteria. Seeing the GAL is about 100000 entries long,
the division up to addressbook is mostly given in from the fact to make
it easier to find people in a smaller address list.

Under Outlook 2000 I was able to set the Addressing tab under the Tools
> Services > Exchange setting. It allowed me to set the primary address list to a shorter one then the GAL, and summarize an order in which the address lists should be run through in order to resolve a name (For instance: first the local company, then the local contracts, then the sister company, and if it was still an unknown name by then, to access the GAL and try there). This made it easy for the employees to find their respective collegues.

Now under Outlook 2003, I have found the equivalent of the Addressing
tab (Open the addressbook, select Tools and then Options). This however
only allows me to move the order of resolvement by switching the
Contacts and the GAL. My self defined addressbooks which are still
present in Exchange 2000 are not listed.

Anyone know what's going on here? Did they abandon the Addressbooks all
together in Outlook 2003 (for I am quite sure in Exchange 2003 the
ability to create user defined Address Books still exists)? Or is
setting up the Addressbooks still possible, but through a completely
different way? The Outlook help files are not all that clear on this
subject.

Any reply is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for any and all
answers.

J. van Doornik

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Nobody have any insights in this one?

Thanks in advance for any and all replies.

J. van Doornik