Creating an addres list of all users that have an email address listed in Active directory

I'm wondering whether or not this is possible.

Our staff use email based on Exchange 2013.

Our students however use googlemail.  Each student account has an email address listed in the mail attribute in AD but this doesn't get listed in the Address list as they are not mail enabled.

What I'd like to know is there a way to create an additional address list that populates itself using the mail attribute where mail ends @student.com?

If it is possible, how?

January 22nd, 2015 1:04pm

Hi ,

1.Just add the domain name @student.com on the accepted domain list as authoritative.

2.Then make sure all the of students contacts in active directory to be mail enabled with external email address with googlemail domain suffix.

3.Then move all the students mail enabled contacts to a separate OU.

4.Then create a email address policy and apply it to the ou to have the new email address with primary smtp address with the domain suffix @student.com.

On the above step please make sure the option  "Automatically update email addresses based on the email address policy applied to this recipient" is checked for all the contacts to have their email address to get automatically updated.

5.Then finally all your staffs can able to see their students email address which ends with @student.com as a primary one and if they trigger en emails to that contact , automatically those emails will get delivered to the Google mailbox.

Please reply me if anything is unclear.

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January 22nd, 2015 2:00pm

Hi,

Many Thanks for the reply.  I have followed the steps but I am still not seeing the students in the address book and when I preview it shows nothing. Her are the screenshots of the settings I've setup; I don

February 26th, 2015 9:32am

OK My fault I hadn't correctly mail-enabled the users.  For reference I did this using PowerShell

$enableusers = get-user -Filter {WindowsEmailAddress -like "*student*" -and RecipientType -eq "User"}

This will get all non mail enabled users using student.co.uk addresses

Now Run

           
$enableusers | foreach { Enable-MailUser $_ -externalEmailAddress $_.WindowsEmailAddress.toString() }

This will mailenable all those users, check the address book and they should appear.

  • Marked as answer by Toffa_99 3 hours 9 minutes ago
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February 27th, 2015 3:47am

OK My fault I hadn't correctly mail-enabled the users.  For reference I did this using PowerShell

$enableusers = get-user -Filter {WindowsEmailAddress -like "*student*" -and RecipientType -eq "User"}

This will get all non mail enabled users using student.co.uk addresses

Now Run

           
$enableusers | foreach { Enable-MailUser $_ -externalEmailAddress $_.WindowsEmailAddress.toString() }

This will mailenable all those users, check the address book and they should appear.

  • Marked as answer by Toffa_99 Friday, February 27, 2015 8:43 AM
February 27th, 2015 11:43am

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