Corporate Addressbook

If you have used a combination of Exchange and Outlook , you might have used the feature within Outlook where if you receive an email from someone at work, you double click their name, and their entire contact information pops up. Similarly when you type in a name in the To field and press Ctrl + K, outlook shows you a list of people who match the name, and you can select a name from that list. This is called a GAL (Global Address List) lookup.

The Global Address List (GAL) is the directory service in Microsoft Exchange that stores the contact information for users who have an account on the server.

The Global Address List (GAL) lookup currently available in vanilla Android is quite limited in functionality. It only looks up email addresses and does not return anything more. This is quite frustrating when you are trying to look up the address book for the contact information (including office number) of a colleague.

This application looks up the GAL contact database, and returns ALL data corresponding to the contact that is available on the server.

The app uses the ActiveSync protocol to communicate with the Exchange server, and supports Exchange 2003, 2007 and 2010.

The app is free and has no ads.

Please do let me know if you come across and bugs / issues or if you have any comments.

Visit http://code.google.com/p/corporateaddressbook/issues/list

FAQ

- Why does the app need so many permissions?
Once the app looks up a name, there are links next to the phone numbers that allow you to call or send a text to the number. In order to make these links work, the app needs the permissions to make calls and send text messages. Also in order to save the search results to your address book, the app needs to be able to access the accounts on your device and add contacts to the accounts.

- Is this app ad supported or paid?
Nopes, the app is completely free (both like beer and speech). There are no ads, and the source code is available on Google Code ( http://code.google.com/p/corporateaddressbook/ ).