Manage Mail Contacts in EOP

S’applique à : Exchange Online Protection

Dernière rubrique modifiée : 2013-12-16

Mail contacts for the Exchange Online Protection (EOP) service are mail-enabled directory service objects that contain information about people or organizations that exist outside your Exchange organization. Each mail contact has an external email address. For more information about mail contacts, see Destinataires.

Before you begin

• Get the permissions you’ll need in order to use these procedures. To learn what permissions you need, see "Distribution groups" in Autorisations des destinataires.

• Know where to get help. You can always visit Help and Support for EOP.

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Estimated time to complete: 2 minutes.

Conseil :
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Create an email contact

1. In the EAC, go to Recipients > Contacts.

2. Click New  > Mail contact.

3. For the properties on the New mail contact page:

   • First name   Type the contact's first name.

   • Initials   Type the contact's initials.

   • Last name   Type the contact's last name.

   • * Display name   To add or change the display name that appears in the contacts list in the Exchange admin center (EAC) and in your organization’s address book, type a name, using up to 64 characters. By default, this box shows the names in the First name, Initials, and Last name boxes if any. The display name is required.

   • * Name   To add or change the contact name that appears in the directory service, type a name, using up to 64 characters. Like the display name, this box shows by default the names you enter in the First name, Initials, and Last name boxes. If you didn't use those boxes, type a name in this box, using up to 64 characters. The display name is required.

   • *** Alias   **Type a unique alias, using up to 64 characters, for the contact. The alias is required.

   • * External email address   Type the outside email account of the contact. Email sent to this contact is forwarded to this email address. The external email address is required.

4. When you finish, click Save.

Change email contact properties

1. In the EAC, move to Recipients > Contacts.

2. In the list of email contacts and users, click the email contact that you want to change the properties for, and then click Edit .

3. On the mail contact properties page, click one of the following sections to view or change properties.

   • General

   • Contact Information

   • Organization

General

Use the General section to view or change basic information about the mail contact.

• First name, Initials, Last name

• * Name   This appears in Active Directory. You can change this name, using up to 64 characters.

• * Display name   This name appears in your organization’s address book, on the To and From lines in email messages, and in the Mailbox list. You can change this name, using up to 64 characters, with no empty spaces before or after the display name. This display name is required.

• * Alias   This is the mail contact’s alias. You can change the alias, using up to 64 characters. The alias must be unique to the organization. This alias is required.

• * External email address   This is the email contact’s primary SMTP address and the contact’s outside email account. Email sent to this contact is forwarded to this email address. You can change the external email address if necessary.

• Click More options to display the OU that contains the mail contact account. You have to use Active Directory Users and Computers to move the contact to a different OU.

Contact Information

Use the Contact Information section to view or change the recipient’s contact information, such as mailing address and telephone numbers. This information appears in the address book.

Organization

Use the Organization section to record detailed information about the mail contact’s role in the organization. This information appears in the address book. Also, you can create a virtual organization chart that’s available from email clients such as Outlook.

• Title   View or change the contact’s title.

• Department   View or change the department in which the contact works. You can use this box to create recipient conditions for dynamic distribution groups and address lists.

• Company   View or change the company for which the contact works. You can also use this box to create recipient conditions for dynamic distribution groups.

• Manager   To add a manager, click Browse. In Select Manager, select a person, and then click OK.

• Direct reports   You can't modify this box. A direct report is a recipient who reports to a specific manager. If you’ve specified a manager for the recipient, that recipient appears as a direct report in the details of the manager's mailbox. For example, Toby manages Ann and Spencer, who are mail contacts. SoToby is specified in the Manager box in the organization properties for Ann and Spencer, and Ann and Spencer appear in the Direct reports box in the properties of Toby's mailbox.