Hi there,

i'm faced with the folowing situation:

in our Company, we have several departments, which all have there own contacts.

we will store them as Exchange-contact objects, and create corresponding address lists for every department.

now i have to block Access for department A on the addresslist of dept. B. Also, those addresslists and their members may not show up in the GAL.is there any way to do so?

Kind regards,

Jrg

Hi Jorg,

According to your description, I understand that you want to create custom contact address list for different department users in Address Book.

If that is the case, we can use Address Book Policy to achieve it. Address book policies (ABPs) allow you to segment users into specific groups to provide customized views of your organizations global address list (GAL). You can then assign the ABP to mailbox users, providing them with access to a customized GAL in Outlook and Outlook Web App.

We can create the address list by the following command:

New-GlobalAddressList -Name "GAL for DEPT1" -RecipientFilter {((Alias -ne $null) -and (((ObjectClass -eq 'user') -or (ObjectClass -eq 'msExchDynamicDistributionList') -or (ObjectClass -eq 'group') -or (ObjectClass -eq 'publicFolder'))))}

New-AddressList -Name "Rooms" -RecipientFilter {RecipientTypeDetails -eq 'RoomMailbox'}

New-AddressList -Name "Contacts for DEPT1" -RecipientFilter {RecipientTypeDetails -eq 'MailContact' -and (Department -eq 'DEPT1') }

New-OfflineAddressBook -Name "OAB for DEPT1" -AddressLists " GAL for DEPT1"

Then create an address book policy for DEPT1:

New-AddressBookPolicy -Name "ABP_DEPT1 " -AddressLists "Contacts for DEPT1",Rooms -OfflineAddressBook "OAB for DEPT1" -GlobalAddressList "GAL for DEPT1" -RoomList "Rooms"

Finally, assign the ABPs to the users in Department 1:

Get-Mailbox -resultsize unlimited | where {$_.Department -eq "DEPT1"} | Set-Mailbox -AddressBookPolicy "ABP_DEPT1"

For more information about Scenario for Deploying address book policies, please refer to:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj657455(v=exchg.150).aspx

Regards,