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Exchange Server Cookbook
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Exchange Server Cookbook

by Paul Robichaux, Missy Koslosky, Devin L. Ganger
June 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
464 pages
13h 2m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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5.17. Hiding or Revealing Items in Address Lists

Problem

You have mailboxes or mail-enabled groups that you don't want to appear in the GAL. Alternatively, you have some hidden objects that you want to unhide.

Solution

Using a graphical user interface

  1. Log on to any machine in your domain that has the Exchange management tools installed.

  2. Open the ADUC snap-in (Users and Computers.msc).

  3. Locate the account or group you want to hide.

  4. Right-click the target account or group and choose the Properties command.

  5. The account properties dialog will appear. Switch to the Exchange Advanced tab (remember, you'll only see this if you're editing a mail-enabled object and if you've installed ESM on the machine you're running the snap-in from).

  6. Set the appropriate status in the Hide from Exchange address lists check box.

  7. Click OK.

Using a command-line interface

exchmbx supports two switches for toggling the visibility state: -hfal causes the selected item to be hidden from address lists, and -uhfal makes them visible again. Here's an example:

> exchmbx -b "cn=Elvis Presley,cn=Users,dc=robichaux,dc=net" -hfal

Using VBScript

' This code hides the selected object from all address lists
' ------ SCRIPT CONFIGURATION ------
 strDCName = "<ServerName>"    ' e.g., CONT-EXBE01
 strUserName = "/cn=<User>, CN=Users, <ForestRootDN>" ' ------ END CONFIGURATION --------- ' find the target user strQuery = "LDAP://" & strDCName & strUserName Set theUser = GetObject(strQuery) theUser.Put "msExchHideFromAddressLists", True theUser.SetInfo ...
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