I Know The Guy Who Owns This Place

I was excited to see a hint on Mac OS X Hints to get your Exchange address book into the Mac’s native Address Book application. Unfortunately I struck out trying to get it to work.

I did read somewhere else about AddressX, an address sync engine for Exchange and Mac’s Address Book. I tried it out and voila! My first 25 corporate global address list contacts are now in the Address Book under Exchange Contacts. I forked out the $19.95 for the full version and it allowed me to quickly download the full global address list from Exchange into my Address Book.

A quick connect of my Blackberry and sync with Missing Sync, and I am all set. My work contacts, phone numbers and email addresses are all in my Blackberry now. Mission accomplished.

Follow-up: Address X and Missing Sync didn’t do duplicate detection, so the address I had manually created before had two copies now in my Address Book and Blackberry. Not a huge deal since I only had a view manually created ones. Also, the Company field got strangely filled in with company and city, but again, something I can live it.

~ by bryan on May 18, 2008.