I want to hide the global address list in the address book dropdown from our Outlook users. I will be creating address lists specific for our users, and thus we cant have them see everybody in the GAL. Anybody know how to do this? I prefer to do it using Exchange 2007 itself, but if devleopment is required, so be it.

Have you found any solution? I would be interessted too.

The solution I found was waiting for the Microsoft Exchange HMC 4.0 product.

hi, i've used this solution with exchange server 2003 (works fine) run exchange systeme manager recipients all global address list right cligk on GAL security tab add user or group, choose permissions to deny run outlook client and check access to GAL regards

I too have tried this and it worked well under Exchange 2003 but for some reason I cannot get this to work under Exchange 2007. Anyone have a working tried solution? HMC4.0 is not an option, what I need to know is what HMC4.0 does under the covers to achieve this GAL hiding. Thanks Andy

Hello, We would also be very interested in a solution for this problem. Anyone found one yet?

You to use the management shell and set a deny on authenticated users

Yeah i would like to know how to do this myself.Can you help me out with this?I want to hide the GAL from all users in Outlook 2007 and OWA and i want to make a new Address list for every company that is on my exchange 2007 server.We are going to do hosting with Exchange 2007 on a very small scale!Thanks for all of your help!

Hi,I have configured an user account to deny permission from GAL in ESM, but when I open outlook 2003 client (with profile denied) i am able to see the GAL yet.My exchange servers are 2003 SP2. Dchavez

If people are stilllooking for the solution, I grabbed this off another thread that resolves this issue.http://msexchange.org/articles_tutorials/exchange-server-2007/management-administration/address-lists-exchange-2007-part1.html