From the course: Microsoft Exchange Server Essential Training: Installation and Configuration
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Creating contacts - Microsoft Exchange Server Tutorial
From the course: Microsoft Exchange Server Essential Training: Installation and Configuration
Creating contacts
- [Instructor] Creating mailboxes for our internal users is a great way to communicate, but sometimes we need to have users that are not part of our Active Directory or our Exchange Server to be able to communicate with them, and we can do that using contacts. So contacts allows us to say take a contractor who we don't want to necessarily add in to Active Directory because we don't want to give them too many rights, and we can create a contact so we can still email them. They show up in our GAL, our global address list, but they're not part of Active Directory itself. So, let's click the drop down arrow and choose to create a mail contact. So we'll give it a first name and we'll call this person contractor, and it'll show up under display name, we'll give it the same alias name, and the external email address will be contractor@work.org. We don't need to pick the organizational unit, that's fine. We'll click save, and now we see that contractor show up as a mail contact. If we open up…
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