Comments on: How to Remove Mail Users from the Global Address List

By: Paul Cunningham

Paul Cunningham — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:14:44 +0000

It is Set-GlobalAddressList “Default Global Address List” so its only modifying the recipient scope of the “Default Global Address List” GAL object. The rest won’t be changed.

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:42:03 +0000

Hi Paul,

If I run this ps1 cmdlet to remove ‘mailuser’ from the GAL, will this also remove it from the ‘All users’ list and a new custom Address List i’ve created for Mail Users??

Ideally, I want the mail users to appear only once in the Address Book – that should not be in the Default global address list and the All Users list, but in my newly created custom list.

thanks

By: Paul Cunningham

Paul Cunningham — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 23:10:35 +0000

You could do that, but then you have to do that every time you create a new Mail User.

By modifying the query for the GAL you exclude all of them no matter when they are created.

By: Paul Cunningham

Paul Cunningham — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 23:07:08 +0000

Venu, calendars are part of the mailbox. You’ll just need to create a mailbox.

By: Triss

Triss — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:23:37 +0000

You can also bulk edit.
Just select all your contacts, choose properties, and check ‘hide from addresslist”

By: venu alla

venu alla — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:52:44 +0000

Hi Paul,
Asking you a favor, am a java guy, came across a need to provision a user in exchange with calendar only feature. That is the user uses external mail (mailuser) but needs calendar. My search around cmdlets to enable such a user did not turn up much, taking a chance here. Thank you.
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By: Abbey

Abbey — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 11:06:32 +0000

I have done exactly what is described above using the command below. But the Mailuser still appear in the Default GAL. All i want to hide the mail user from the Default Global Address List but show the in another Address list. I am trying this on Exchange 2010 SP1.

Set-GlobalAddressList “Default Global Address List” -RecipientFilter {(Alias -ne $null -and RecipientType -ne ‘MailUser’ -and (ObjectClass -eq ‘user’ -or ObjectClass -eq ‘Contact’ -or ObjectClass -eq ‘msExchSystemMailbox’ -or ObjectClass -eq ‘msExchDynamicDistributionList’ -or ObjectClass -eq ‘group’ -or ObjectClass -eq ‘publicFolder’))}

There is another post that suggested modifying GAL purportedSearch attribute. I have not yet tried this. I am not sure if this is safe?

Have anyone manage to archive what i am trying to do? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

By: Paul Cunningham

Paul Cunningham — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 21:54:45 +0000

Hi Mary, you can still hide a single Mailbox User from the GAL using the GUI. You just go into Exchange Management Console, open the properties for that Mailbox User, and you’ll find the checkbox in there.

This article is about hiding *all* objects of the type “Mail User” (different to Mailbox User) from the GAL. In the article I describe what a “Mail User” is.

By: Mary

Mary — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 20:49:25 +0000

Isn’t there a GUI to work with or only command line? Use to be so easy to “hide” someone from the GAL and now you have to go to a command line and type in all that gibberish and hope you don’t wipe out everyone.

By: Paul Cunningham

Paul Cunningham — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:58:21 +0000

I excluded the MailUser recipient type from the GAL query, ie the “RecipientType -ne ‘MailUser” bit you see above.

This removes all Mail User recipient types from the GAL in question.