Contact Ownership for Outlook sync

Contact Ownership for Outlook sync

I'd like to setup a public folder on our Exchange server which contains a read-only copy of all of our contacts.  But so far, I haven't been able to find a way to sync anything but contacts belonging to the user doing the sync.  Is there a way short of re-assigning owenership of everything to accomplish this?  We have 4400+ contacts (and growing).