Discovered the external contacts are coming from Microsoft / Office 365 > Exchange Admin Center > Contacts, so if I change there it updates the external contacts in GAL. Someone must have manually uploaded them at some point.
How do I open the Global Address List (GAL) on Windows Server Essentials?
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I am trying to find the Global Address List on our server. We are running Windows Server Essentials which I am not that familiar with. My research so far has shown that you need to open Exchange Management Shell to Get the Global Address List (i.e Get-GlobalAddress List). However I cannot find Exchange Management Shell on our Windows Server Essentials install. Is Exchange Management Shell on Windows Server Essentials or just the full server versions? If not, does anyone know how to open the GlobalAddressList on Windows Server Essentials? Or run Exchange Management Shell?
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Andy David - MVP 159.7K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator2020-07-27T16:10:32.28+00:00 You can open a remote session to the Exchange Server from the Essentials Server
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/exchange/connect-to-exchange-servers-using-remote-powershell?view=exchange-psNote you don't "open" the GAL using Powershell, that only allows you to access its configuration properties.
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BradCMI 146 Reputation points
2020-07-28T14:59:26.67+00:00 Thanks for your reply. I will look at the docs you provided.
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Jenny Yan-MSFT 9,376 Reputation points2020-07-28T06:18:16.957+00:00 Hi,
Did you deploy the exchange server on the essential server that you were looking for GAL?From what I found, the GAL was built-in list that's automatically created by Exchange includes every mail-enabled object in the Active Directory forest.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/email-addresses-and-address-books/address-lists/address-lists?view=exchserver-2019In the meanwhile, Essentials does not include Exchange Server as a component product but support running Exchange Server on a second server.
https://learn.microsoft.com/zh-cn/archive/blogs/sbs/email-options-supported-by-windows-server-2012-essentialsIf Exchange server was running on second server, you could follow suggestion by AD-7973 to check from remote connection.
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BradCMI 146 Reputation points
2020-07-28T15:36:37.653+00:00 Thanks Jenny. Our Outlook GAL may be syncing from our Office 365. Locally we run Servers Essentials and our local organization is on Office 365 while the rest of the organization is still on Google. It looks like someone may have imported a bunch of external users from Google as I still have access to our old Google user list. The list does not sync and has not been maintained, so I am trying to figure out where I go to clean up the GAL list that our Outlooks are reading from. Neither do the external contacts match what is Office 365 Admin. I am trying to figure out how to open the GAL so I can get maintain the external contacts in there.
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