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nbruneau71
Nov 16, 2021Copper Contributor
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...
nbruneau71
Nov 19, 2021Copper Contributor
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
VasilMichev
Nov 20, 2021MVP
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.
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.
- nbruneau71Nov 22, 2021Copper Contributor
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
- VasilMichevNov 22, 2021MVPYou 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/
- nbruneau71Nov 23, 2021Copper ContributorHi,
I found this article saying that Microsoft has disabled sharing of contact folder in Outlook Web Access. Is this true ?
This is the article : https://support.intermedia.com/app/articles/detail/a_id/25035/type/KB