Contact Status in Outlook & Sharepoint

My company uses Exchange / Outlook 2003 for email. I also have WSS 2
Sharepoint sites. I have several colleagues using Messenger and I myself am
using WLM beta 8.1

My problem is, I can't get my colleagues' status to show up, in other
company-internal applications. When I mouse-over them in Outlook or in
Sharepoint, they are shown as "username is not an Online Contact". My
colleagues use various email addresses for their Messenger accounts, so I was
advised that in my own WLM I should edit their contact information to add the
internal company email address in "Work email" - but this doesn't seem to
have helped! I can interact with them all just fine using Messenger and they
show up fine as Online (etc), in WLM.

Any ideas how I can get their online status to work?

Anyone have any thoughts on this?

"Perry B" wrote:

> My company uses Exchange / Outlook 2003 for email. I also have WSS 2
> Sharepoint sites. I have several colleagues using Messenger and I myself am
> using WLM beta 8.1
>
> My problem is, I can't get my colleagues' status to show up, in other
> company-internal applications. When I mouse-over them in Outlook or in
> Sharepoint, they are shown as "username is not an Online Contact". My
> colleagues use various email addresses for their Messenger accounts, so I was
> advised that in my own WLM I should edit their contact information to add the
> internal company email address in "Work email" - but this doesn't seem to
> have helped! I can interact with them all just fine using Messenger and they
> show up fine as Online (etc), in WLM.
>
> Any ideas how I can get their online status to work?