Hi there I try to set up a concept but im a littlebit stuck... Situation: In our company there are several guest users and normal staff. Usualy the staff gets an email account and will automaticaly be placed into the GAL and a custom addresslist like "Chicago Users". And normaly the guests are hidden from the exchange address book. Question: Whats the best practice in other companies? how do you handle the guest users? do you let them be findable in the addressbook? do you specialy mark them? thanks for some ideas, ueruleuem

Hi there I try to set up a concept but im a littlebit stuck... Situation: In our company there are several guest users and normal staff. Usualy the staff gets an email account and will automaticaly be placed into the GAL and a custom addresslist like "Chicago Users". And normaly the guests are hidden from the exchange address book. Question: Whats the best practice in other companies? how do you handle the guest users? do you let them be findable in the addressbook? do you specialy mark them? thanks for some ideas, ueruleuem Normally Exchange Admins create Mail Contacts for those guest users with email hosting outside the exchange server with external email address. You can hide/unhide those mail contacts from the Address Lists at your discretion using set-mailContact command OR EMC. Regards, Laeeq Qazi|Team Lead(Exchange + Sharepoint + BES + DynamicsCRM) www.HostingController.com

actualy they are not external. they are internal and have a guetuser login in our company. and i'm not talking about how to do, just asking for the best concept for users like this. BR, uerueluem

Hi, Since they are internal users and mailbox enabled, they are intended to receive mails from other internal users, and other users can search their address in GAL to send mails to. I think there is no security issue to publish their address in the GAL. And mark them as temp(guest) user is a good idea. You company policy decide it.Frank Wang