Address Book - Hiding Mailboxes

Modified on Mon, 9 Feb at 9:54 AM

How to hide an exchange mailbox from the address book in Outlook.

AD Synced objects

Open Active Directory Users & Computers 

Turn on advanced features, 

Search for the user

Open user properties > Go to Attribute Editor   

Change msExchHideFromAddressLists attribute to "TRUE"


Exchange (not synced to AD)

From the exchange admin center, edit the mailbox, and tick the Hide from address lists field.


Changes take effect

The offline address lists is generated once a day, and Outlook automatically refreshes it every 24 hours or so.  So please be aware that these changes won’t be instant.

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