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AddressX: Exchange contacts in Address Book

addressx_symbolAddressX makes all the contacts in an Exchange Global Address List available in your Address Book, provided you have Exchange server 2000 or 2003 with WebDAV enabled.

The contact information which the app pipes into Address Book can be filtered, set to auto-update and synced to an iPod or palm device with iSync.

It does this “transparently”, which means the developer says,

that your Exchange GAL contacts will look and act just like the other contacts already in your Address Book. Search them, export them as vCards, sync them to your cell phone and take them with you. Take full advantage of the new system-wide address book instantly. Use your Exchange contacts seamlessly from applications like Mail, iCal, and many others.

Contacts are placed an Exchange contacts group in Address Book making them easy to identify and manage:

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An updated version (1.50) released yesterday adds support for OS X’s “faster user switching” so AddressX can now be used by multiple users on a given system. It also fixes problems with non-secure/non-SSL connections and incorrect permissions.

I don’t have access to an Exchange account and haven’t tested this.

Address X is shareware (single licenses from USD 19.95) and is available from Snerdware’s web site .address book, microsoft exchange, fast user switching, contacts, syncing

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3 Responses to “AddressX: Exchange contacts in Address Book”

  1. Breached says:
    July 4th, 2006 at 6:26 am

    I tested this out with my work’s Exchange 2003 server and it worked quiet nicely. If I decide to dump Entourage and use just Mail.app then I would buy this handy app. Apple should really add more Exchange support in 10.5 so Address Book and iCal can replace Entourage.

  2. Dan Warne says:
    July 5th, 2006 at 3:59 pm

    Sigh, another product for Mac users that links in to Exchange server “as long as” you have WEBDAV enabled on your Exchange Server.

    The problem in corporate environments is all these things are never enabled and IT admins refuse to enable them. And why would they; it’s just another point of failure and support burden when it’s outside of their (all Microsoft Windows Server / Office for Windows) environment anyway.

    I can’t understand how Microsoft could have made its Exchange Server protocols SO complex that the entire open-source community still hasn’t been able to unpick them…

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    September 18th, 2006 at 11:25 pm

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