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Separate contact in different (Address Book Policy & GAL)
Hi Guys, I put GAL in place with 2 differents companies. And now I have an issue with the contacts some of them can not be seen by either of the companies any way to affect a contact to an addr...
If the idea is to "hide" the contact in one of the ALs/ABPs, then yes, add an exception based on the Custom attribute (any attribute that makes sense for your specific scenario really). With the filters you have currently configured, any newly created contact should appear in both ALs/ABPs.
One thing that I forgot to mention and you need to keep in mind is that in Exchange Online, you need to "touch" objects before they appear in ALs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/exchange/troubleshoot/administration/new-address-lists-not-contains-all-recipients
One thing that I forgot to mention and you need to keep in mind is that in Exchange Online, you need to "touch" objects before they appear in ALs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/exchange/troubleshoot/administration/new-address-lists-not-contains-all-recipients
Hey Vasilec,
Yes I got that my filters are not correct and I could test it 🙂
What are the best practices if 2 or more companies do not want to share contacts ?
I just do not want to start wrong as some others companies even small might join later.
As for Ressources and Calendars this is not a problem as we can easily even the Exchange Admin Center give them the ABP we want. But with contact...... Not way to get the Attributes
Yes I got that my filters are not correct and I could test it 🙂
What are the best practices if 2 or more companies do not want to share contacts ?
I just do not want to start wrong as some others companies even small might join later.
As for Ressources and Calendars this is not a problem as we can easily even the Exchange Admin Center give them the ABP we want. But with contact...... Not way to get the Attributes
- Contact objects also support the set of CustomAttributeXX, so just use that to differentiate between contacts that one company should see and the other not. Then create the ALs/GALs/ABPs accordingly.
The more separate companies you have, the more overhead this solution will add. Might be a better idea to remove the contacts from the GAL altogether, and use a Shared mailbox/Public folders to store/share them.Hi,
Once again, thank you so much. I find it hard to get an easy documentation about that.
I might look for a training or something like this.
So, we might have in the close future 4-6 very small companies and in long term something like 30.
So it would be best to have it like a Shared Mailbox/Public Folders ?
I know how shared mailbox are working and we have few of them, but how would it work with contact ?
As for Public Folders I don't know at all what it is and how it works.
Would you give me some insight ?
Nicolas
- You can simply share the Contacts folder from a shared mailbox, users can add it to their Outlook to access the list of contact objects stored therein. Similarly for Public folders, although they're not something you should be investing in at this time: https://blog.quadrotech-it.com/blog/create-a-company-shared-contacts-folder-in-office-365/
