Applies to: Exchange Server 2013, Exchange Online
Topic Last Modified: 2012-10-11
After you create an address book policy (ABP), you must assign it to mailbox users. Users aren’t assigned a default ABP when their user account is created. If you don’t assign an ABP to a user, the global address list (GAL) for your entire organization will be accessible to the user through Outlook and Outlook Web App. To learn more, see Address Book Policies.
For additional management tasks related to ABPs, see Address Book Policy Procedures.
Interested in scenarios that use this procedure? See Scenario: Deploying Address Book Policies.
What do you need to know before you begin?
- Estmated time to complete: Less than 5 minutes.
- You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this
procedure or procedures. To see what permissions you need, see the
"Address book policies" entry in the Email Address and
Address Book Permissions topic.
- For information about keyboard shortcuts that may apply to the
procedures in this topic, see Keyboard Shortcuts in
the Exchange Admin Center.
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What do you want to do?
Use the EAC to assign an ABP to a mailbox user
- Navigate to Recipients > Mailboxes.
- In the list view, select the user that you want to assign the
policy to, and then click Edit
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- Click Mailbox features.
- In the Address book policy list, select the ABP that you
want to apply to this user.
- Click Save.
Use the EAC to assign an ABP to multiple mailbox users
- Navigate to Recipients > Mailboxes.
- In the list view use the Ctrl key to select multiple users.
- In the details pane, click More options.
- Under Address Book Policy, click Update.
- In the Select Address Book Policy list, select the ABP
that you want to apply to these users.
- Click Save.
Use the Shell to assign an ABP to mailbox users
This example assigns the ABP All Fabrikam to the existing mailbox user joe@fabrikam.com.
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Set-Mailbox -Identity joe@fabrikam.com -AddressBookPolicy "All Fabrikam" |
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This example assigns the ABP ABP_EngineeringDepartment
to all mailbox users whose CustomAttribute11 value
contains “Engineering Department”.
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Get-Mailbox -Filter {(CustomAttribute11 -like "Engineering Department")} | Set-Mailbox -AddressBookPolicy ABP_EngineeringDepartment
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For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Set-Mailbox and Get-Mailbox.