Automate Outlook Contact import/export?

I am in the process of developing a contact management system
for my company and have built coldfusion pages that allow the user
to import their personal contacts from outlook, as well as export
contacts from the system into their MS Outlook contacts.
The process is fairly simple on the users (in my mind) but it
requires using Outlook's import/export function, which is about 6
or 7 steps. My users would of course like to have this process
simplified.
Is it possible to have a button on one of my pages that
automates the entire process? i.e. creates the csv file (or
whatever other format is needed) and then automatically pushes that
data into outlook (and vice versa) ?
Any thoughts or suggestions are greatly appreciated!

If your Outlook users are using Exchange you might look into
ColdFusion's Exchange features.
http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/help.html?content=cfexchange_1.html#112045 8

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