To set up a directory service to check for e-mail addresses

In Outlook Express, when you can't remember someone's complete e-mail address, you can enter a partial name, and then use the Check Names command on the Tools menu to search for matches. Outlook Express first searches your address book and if no matches are found, it searches the directory services you have set up to check e-mail addresses.

  1. In Outlook Express or the Address Book, click the Tools menu, and then click Accounts.

  2. If you are in Outlook Express, click the Directory Service tab.

  3. Select a directory service, and then click Properties.

  4. On the General tab, make sure the check box Check names against this server when sending mail is selected.
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Change the order in which directory services are checked