Address book sharing in Tiger

[garymum4d]

For those of you who have the latest build of Tiger.

If you want to share your Addres book, Do you have to use .Mac or can you specify a local server (like you can in iCal)?

I use our local server running 10.3.8 to serv as a webdav server so all our employees can share their iCal calendars with each outher. I would Love to have ONE Address book we can all share in the same way rather than each machine having it's own address book and each employee having to update it with contacts.

[fryke]

It's .Mac only. Even subscribing to an Address Book seems to be .Mac only. It acts up for me, telling me I haven't set my .Mac identity (well, I have none...). Drag. Here goes functionality for many, many users, I guess...

[Ripcord]

Here goes functionality for many, many users, I guess...

Actually, I think the "many, many users" type organization (read: enterprises, other large organizations) and perhaps even medium-sized orgs are okay since Address Book supports LDAP, and those orgs are going to tend to use a directory system of some kind (Active Directory, Exchange, Lotus, Novell, etc) anyway. It's the small organizations that have no "address book administrators" and who want a handful of people to be able to share and individually administer a global address book that really have the problem here.

They can always exchange vCards (including setting up a vCard "repository" on a shared drive), but you're right, there's really no way to use Address Book to administer, well, address books amongst several users.

Of course, LDAP's not (necessarily) read-only and there's no reason why you *couldn't* update LDAP with Address Book if Apple wrote it that way... Is there no technology in OS X Server that helps make this happen?

[drosecatalytic]

Along this line of questions: Has anyone figured out how to sync Address Book with Exchange server? It doesn't show up in iSync, but you can set it to sync with Exchange in Address Book. When you hit "sync" nothing. Any thoughts?

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Is your Exchange server set up for web access?