If I understand your request correctly, you want to allow somebody to create a new contact that resides in the Active Directory. To my knowledge, this is not something that Outlook does natively. You would likely have better luck using a web page or an Outlook add-in to accomplish this. Al -----Original Message----- From: arene [mailto:pascal.arene@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 12:04 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] add contact from outlook in an exchange address list http://www.MSExchange.org/ I want do allow someone to create new contact from outlook, not from Active Directory. is it possible to add a contact to an address list defined in exchange 2003 from outlook 2003? I tried to put the rights permissions on the list in exchange, but i always have the same message in my address book when i add a new contact: "You cannot create entries for this Address Book" ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com No.1 ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------