Re: GAL - excluding OU

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1. You could modify your default GAL to exclude ALL Contacts:
(&(yourExistingGALFilter)(&(objectCategory=person)(!objectClass=contact)))

or you can add the following to only include folks with primary email
address from your SMTP domain:
(&(yourExistingGALFilter)(mail=*@yourdomain.com))

- or you can create new Address Lists with either of the two above filters
(to avoid modifying default GAL). Instruct users who have issues to use the
new Address List that only has local users from your SMTP domain.

2. An "All Contacts" Address List already exists, or you can create one
with:
(&(mailNickname=*)(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=contact))
--
Bharat Suneja
MCSE, MCT
www.zenprise.com
blog: www.suneja.com/blog
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"Nikola" <nikolaf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1131827014.630324.44390@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi,
>
> I have standard AD & Exchange 2003 setup with GAL that includes all
> e-mails in AD. Users are defined in OU=Employees.
> However, we created new OU (in root) with over 10000 contact objects.
> These object get updated by our parent company (it contains employee
> contacts from all owned compainies).
> Everything works fine, except that now our GAL is really big and hard
> to browse since it includes those contact objects too.
> I would like that our GAL contains only local addresses, and there is
> separate address list(GAL? can there be two?) with those external
> contacts, so that users can in outlook addressbook can select which
> list to browse.
> How could this be done? What would be "by the book" way? How can I
> exclude that one OU from the GAL.?
>
> Thanks,
> N.
>


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