Run 2 companies domains with 2 seperate address books?

[sab4you]

Man,
This is prooving to be extremely difficult. I have dealt with multiple Microsoft Exchange team people and they even can answer this.

Lets say we want to run 2 different domains on the same exchange. We have 2 users in different groups, and I have created both an independant Address List and OAB for each group. This part is fine.

The problem is, when users logon to OWA, Outlook or Outlook/Cached mode, they see all address books.

Does anybody know how set permissions on address lists, so only certain groups can see their address list?

 

[MitchellMTI]

You've created Adress Lists and OAB's for each group, so I'm going to assume you granted the proper permissions for each group to those. You'll need to deny permissions to the Default Address Lists for those two groups- without this step they'll likely still see the same Default Address List in Outlook.

There's a good step-by-step article about setting this up on msexchange.org:

http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Shared_Hosting_Exchange_2003_Part1.html

For OWA it's a bit different; you'll need to set the base query DN on each account. Explanation and setup steps can be found at:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;

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HTH,
Mike

 

[sab4you]

Thanks, but it seems those instructions are for Exchange 2000 and 2003. I have also done this in the past on Exchange 2003, but I am finding 2007 to be much different and these are not applicable.

Any other ideas?

 

[MitchellMTI]

Hey-

Sorry, guess I should look at what group I'm in before I reply...

You're quite right, that won't work in Exchange 2007. I just took a quick look in Exchange 2007 (Beta 2) and can't figure it out either:

I created a new GAL for all mailboxes with a company of "Contoso" using:
New-GlobalAddressList -name
COGAL -Company:'Contoso' -IncludedRecipients:'AllRecipients'

That was successful, but that GAL doesn't appear as an option in Outlook 2007. I even tried using adsiedit to remove permissions from the default global address list for the contoso users, but that just resulted in no GAL at all in Outlook.

Hopefully this is functionality that wasn't finished in beta 2...

 

[sab4you]

If anybody else needs to do this, look for HMC, which is under:

http://www.microsoft.com/serviceproviders/hostingproviders.mspx