Hiding recipients from address lists

There may be times when you'll need to hide a particular mailbox, contact, or distribution group from your Exchange address lists. This is a common task that is required when you have mailboxes, contacts, or public folders used by applications or staff in your IT department that should not be seen by end-users. In this recipe, we'll take a look at how you can disable these recipient types from the address lists using the Exchange Management Shell.

How to do it...

To hide a mailbox from the Exchange address lists, use the Set-Mailbox command:

Set-Mailbox dave -HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled $true

How it works...

As you can see, hiding a mailbox from address lists is pretty straightforward, as it requires only a simple PowerShell one-liner. The -HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled parameter accepts a Boolean value, either $true or $false. To enable this setting, set the value to $true, and to disable it, set the value to $false.

There are multiple recipient types that...