Oh... btw I think an explanation of how the GAL for a user is determined is described in the E2K FAQ at www.swinc.com (er... if not, it's my fault cause I was supposed to write it). The GAL is really more of a virtual construct than an actual object. Dontcha just love Exchange. Man, I can't wait to answer this question 47 times at MEC.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Scharff > Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 4:59 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Global Address Lists > > The Exchange provisioning whitepaper at www.microsoft.com/isn and I think > one article by David Sengupta (same source as last time) go into some > detail > in setting up restricted address book views in E2K. > > Without the ability to view an address list in which their mailbox > appeared, > a user would have to use the Exchange DN of their mailbox to create their > profile (or at least that was the case in 5.5 and I think it still holds > true) which is not a terribly user friendly string to enter into the > mailbox > name field in Outlook. > > So, basically all users need to be able to see some address list (of which > they are a member) in order to easily resolve their name in the GAL... it > could potentially be an address list of one user. In general, one would > want > to automate the creation of an address list for a group (company for > example) as part of the provisioning process. > > Links: www.ensim.com & www.mail-resources.com | resources | server | > directory management > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Wendy Reetz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 4:35 PM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: Global Address Lists > > > > In E2K if I hide UserA from the global access list, they can log in > > through > > OWA, but not through outlook (xp). Is that typical behavior? or do I > > have > > something configured wrong? Is there another way to restrict who's seen > > in > > the Address books by Outlook users? > > > > I have it set up where the Default Global Address List is disallowing > > "Open > > Address List". This hides it's contents from users. I then have > another > > NewGAL defined for a group. That group has "Open Address List" rights, > & > > can log in & see their list just fine. The problem comes when a person > > from > > outside the group wants to log in. Not being in my NewGAL list, they > get > > a > > "The name could not be resolved. The name could not be matched to a > name > > in > > the address list." message. > > > > Short of allowing everyone to see the Default GAL, any suggestions? > > > > Please help!! :-) > > > > Wendy > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
