Public Contacts on iPhone with ActiveSync problem.

Hello everyone,
First of all I'm going to explain a little about the situation we currently have.
So, the managers in this company told us they wanted a "Public Contacts" list within Outlook, which could be synchronized with the company iPhones via ActiveSync.
What we did was make a new AD user account, which is in linked to an Exchange user mailbox. We gave our employees full "Manage" rights on this mailbox and added the "Public Contacts" list in their Outlook.
The problem then was, that they could edit the contacts.
So we started to test with certain rights within Outlook. We deleted the employees from the "Full Manage permissions" list within the exchange mailbox and gave them view rights on the Public Contact-list within Outlook. (Commentator rights)
When we did this, they could view the contacts, but they could not edit the contacts. This was exactly what we wanted, so we started to test with the synchronisation with ActiveSync (iPhone)
We added the exchange mailbox in the iPhone and we could see all the contacts.
However, the only problem that we have now is that our employees can edit the contacts on their iPhones, while they CAN'T edit the contacts within Outlook. (on PC)
I hope someone could help us find a solution for this permissions problem.
They can't edit the contacts on the computer, but they can on the iPhone. :(
If something is not clear, please let me know.
Thanks in advance! :)

Hello Eric,
First of all, thanks for the reply.
We've done the following:
- Create a new AD Account called "Public Contacts"
- We created a new mailbox on the Exchange Server called: Public.Contacts"at""company""dot""com"
- We connected the Public Contacts account to this new mailbox.
- We gave our test account called "Helpdesk" NO
rights on the mailbox on the exchange server (so no Send As and no Full Manage rights).
- Then we went in the Public Contacts mailbox (within Outlook) and went to contacts. Here we gave the account "Helpdesk" Commentator rights. (View Everything, but nothing else)
- We went into the account "Helpdesk" and went to contacts. I could not edit any contacts on my computer (Which is a good thing).
- So I've got it running on my PC now, but on the iPhone I won't even see the contacts. I've added the Exchange mailbox to the iPhone and used the Helpdesk account to login to it.
Before we could edit both the contacts on the PC and on the iPhone. Now I can see the contacts on the PC, but I cannot edit them... but on the iPhone they won't even show.
I will definitely try out your suggestion though.
Thanks!!!

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