Comments on: Hidding Global Address Lists (GAL) with Exchange 2007

By: Yasir

Yasir — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:14:06 +0000

Great Job,

Thanks a lot

Regards

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 02:43:00 +0000

Quick question, I am trying to add a user in outlook (Exchange 2007)and can’t see the user that has a hidden account GAL. Is there a way that I can have them show up so I can add them without them being in the default GAL.

This user has 2 accounts on the same SBS 2008 server but in 2 different MX records and different logon accounts. They are both hidden from each other so when I try and add them in Outlook it only see’s what is in the default GAL. How do I see this hidden account?

Thanks…

By: wes

wes — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 06:04:58 +0000

Brody, download ADModify, it will let you modify attributes for all users at once.

By: suiko

suiko — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:46:56 +0000

How would this script look like? Can I do it on the shell easily? Or do you have a test script?

By: Exchange Genie

Exchange Genie — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 22:48:49 +0000

You would have to write a script, there is no easy way.

By: Chief Brody

Chief Brody — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:24:28 +0000

Excellent post, just one question about owa. I work at a college and need to hide our staff GAL and other address lists from student users and just list the GAL they are member of? I have edited the msExchQueryBaseDN attribute for a single user and that works fine. How do I assign this attribute to the rest of the student users (we have over 3000) without having to edit each individual users attribute?
Thanks in advance

By: Green VPS

Green VPS — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 14:29:31 +0000

Great post! Maybe you could do a follow up on this topic?

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By: Andrey

Andrey — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:03:23 +0000

In Exchange 2003 do not add any GALs to the Offline Address Book configuration. If you do, the OAB will show EVERYONE.

If you want OAB to only display specific addresses, you have to base the OAB on an Address List. Not on any Global Address List.

This is documented in some MS KBs.

So basically you have to do double work:
1. create a custom GAL for Outlook Online mode
2. create a custom AL that has the same exact filter as the custom GAL.
3. Create an OAB based on the custom AL.

By: Minifab

Minifab — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:35:57 +0000

What a helpfull article !
Thanx a lot, good job