William Cashman

Q: Contacts sharing

Need to share all corporate contacts with those at work.  So Far we've been just hosting vcards on drop box.  We also would like it so not every group in the business has access to all contacts. I'm coming up empty on solutions even containerized with MDM options. 

 

1. Option 1 was create a CardDav server with OS X server but found there was only limited information that could be entered in there. I could create 1 user on the server handing out contacts but after so many simultaneous connections it will crumble as well as permission issues.

 

2. The dirty solution was create a google or icloud account housing the contacts but this would allow for members to make edits to the files and delete contacts so the permissions would not be very good in this regard.

 

3. We'd like to share out to only certain devices certain contacts.  It doesn't have to show up in the native address book at this point.  I'd like to push a new contact to our level 1 networking team but not share it with all.

 

I'm sure there are other corporations that have done this before so any advice would be appreciated and I'm more than will to answer any followup questions if my request isn't clear enough.  Thanks!

iPhone 5s, iOS 7.0.4

Posted on Sep 17, 2015 11:39 AM