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Restricting Exchange Shared Contact list

I have a customer that wants to create a contact list of employees which would include personal cell numbers, home phone numbers, and other information that should not necessarily be available to all users with email. Also, the contact list needs to be able to sync to their mobile devices.

I haven't found a way to restrict access to specific attributes in AD or Exchange. The closest solution I've found is GAL segmentation in Exchange 2010 SP2, however I don't want to remove the GAL functionality for regular users if I don't have to.

Is there an easy way to do this that I'm missing?

Imtiaz Hasham

If it's a separate address list, it's doable but if it's the GAL / OAB, you cannot segregate the info.

Imtiaz Hasham

So my suggestion, create a separate address book for it and assign permissions.

Vijaya Babu Sekar

better you can create new offline address book and give the permission

Thanks

Imtiaz Hasham

Hi Vijay,

It's precisely what I have advised but correct me if I am wrong, it would be assigned to an OU, correct?

Vijaya Babu Sekar

Hi Ihasham,

Yes, Address list, offline address book and address book policy will be assigned OU level.

Thanks

cnit

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Thanks for the input - I'll give it a try and update later today. I guess I had thought that if I copied internal users to a new address book, the attributes would stay in sync with the contacts of the GAL.

Imtiaz Hasham

They won't unless you create a new address book which is dynamic :)

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cnit

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I've been looking at Code2 Exchange Sync as well. Add2exchange looks like does the same thing but the licensing for the number of users I need to sync with is nearly double the price of Code2. Thanks everyone for your input.