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showInAddressBook attribute
I am looking for a bit of expertise on Exchange attributes. I have a user who is reporting he is not appearing in the GAL. He is not hidden according to Exchange. His mailbox is there. It can...
I dislike questions without solutions, Here is what we looked at.
Some PowerShell may have solved the issue. Something like this.
$CorrectUser = get-AdUser “workinguser” -Properties *
Foreach($AddressBookListing in $CorrectUser.ShowInAddressBook){Set-AdUser notworkinguser -Add @{ShowInAddressBook=$AddressBookListing}}
In theory this should have populated the AD entry.
It didn't. So we output the working user and pasted the value using the GUI.
I was mostly worried about the Exchange Recipient Update Service overwriting it. However, this worry was misplaced.
At least here are some ideas if you see this.
Some PowerShell may have solved the issue. Something like this.
$CorrectUser = get-AdUser “workinguser” -Properties *
Foreach($AddressBookListing in $CorrectUser.ShowInAddressBook){Set-AdUser notworkinguser -Add @{ShowInAddressBook=$AddressBookListing}}
In theory this should have populated the AD entry.
It didn't. So we output the working user and pasted the value using the GUI.
I was mostly worried about the Exchange Recipient Update Service overwriting it. However, this worry was misplaced.
At least here are some ideas if you see this.