You can hide mail contacts from the GAL using Powershell with the Set-Mailcontact cmdlet. Example:
Set-MailContact -Identity [email protected] -HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled $true
Hiding a Mail Contact from the Global Address List in Office 365
The form below will generate the correct PowerShell for you:
- Enter the email address of the contact that you would like to hide (or unhide)
- Copy the generated code into a PowerShell window.
- You will be prompted for your Office 365 Credentials.
- The contact will be changed.
Your Powershell session should look something like this:
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Zane says
April 29, 2014 at 2:10 amCan you add to the list of contact addresses or do you need to duplicate the entire line
Set-MailContact -Identity [email protected] -HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled $true
for each user?
Thx! V helpful
Sam says
May 2, 2014 at 11:23 amHi
Could you please help me with hiding all contacts in office 365 instead of one contact
Thanks
Noah R. de Wit says
May 12, 2014 at 3:51 pmSam,
After running the login commands:
$Cred = Get-Credential
$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell/ -Credential $Cred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection
Import-PSSession $Session
to change the attribute in bulk in all mail contacts:
Get-MailContact | Set-MailContact -HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled $true
to verify changes:
Get-MailContact | select Name, Alias, HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled
jared says
October 27, 2015 at 2:48 pmAwesome. Thanks for this!