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mail contact is the typical email contact that has no permissions, while mail user not only have email contact associated with it, its actually a user object that you can set permissions on and allow user authentication.
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mail contact is the typical email contact that has no permissions, while mail user not only have email contact associated with it, its actually a user object that you can set permissions on and allow user authentication.

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In Exchange O365 GUI, in Contacts &nbsp;I see contact type: mailcontact and mail user. What is the difference?
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Hi,

In Exchange O365 GUI, in Contacts  I see contact type: mailcontact and mail user. What is the difference?

In Exchange O365 GUI, in Contacts  I see contact type: mailcontact and mail user. What is the difference?

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