Hide Staff emails from students with exchange 2003

[bilbo]

We are having a problem with students sending obscene emails to staff, so
I've been asked to hide staff emails from the students, we are using exchange 2003. The Staff use outlook and the students access thier emails via owa.
Or is there a way to restrict groups sending to other groups.
Thanks in advance.

[Edu-IT]

I've been asked to hide staff emails from the students,

Do all of the email addresses have the same format?

[WithoutMotive]

If anyone knows how to do this, it would be an advantage to me, too. All I can think of is creating a separate staff address book and hide their addresses from the Global Address List... again, if people know how to do that, too, it would be helpful.

[Edu-IT]

If anyone knows how to do this, it would be an advantage to me, too. All I can think of is creating a separate staff address book and hide their addresses from the Global Address List... again, if people know how to do that, too, it would be helpful.

Wouldn't pupils still be able to guess staff email addresses though or am I missing something?

[banjoman]

yes the emails have the same format. And yes your quite correct some of our brighter pupils would guess, but try explaining this to the leadership team.

[Edu-IT]

yes the emails have the same format. And yes your quite correct some of our brighter pupils would guess, but try explaining this to the leadership team.

Why can't you just disable the students email access? (Are you bilbo?)

[mrcrazy04]

Failing that - ban the kids who send the obscene emails. I'm sure they'd start to learn!

[plock]

If any issue like this arises, I use sending limits to restrict students sending any emails. This allows staff to email them coursework deadlines and so forth.

[SYNACK]

There is an option in active directory under the user accounts (if you have the exchange admin tools installed) that hides the user from the global address list.

You should be able to change the lot by selecting all of the staff at once, assuming they are in one OU and opening up properties. This will then apply any settings that you change to all of the selected users at once.

[plock]

I have used this for External Contacts that we don't wish our students to view.

However, this is useless as our standard format of first.lastname@domain.com is for students and staff. Our lovely students would soon realise they can type the email address in.

[strawberry]

yes the emails have the same format. And yes your quite correct some of our brighter pupils would guess, but try explaining this to the leadership team.

maybe the school should ban pens as well incase the students write obscene notes to the teachers!.

[CyberNerd]

We Filter the email, any obscene words are sent to system admins. Offenders are dealt with appropriately and the rest of the school can continue to use the system.

[banjoman]

How do you filter emails that sounds good, the only problem is that Students will just say that someone else logged on as them. I'm all for punishnment, by retracting pc privilages, but how can you protect the innocent.

[Andrew_C]

the only problem is that Students will just say that someone else logged on as them.

Either they did it, or they shared their password. Either way they get a (metaphorical, unfortunately sometimes) kicking.

[SYNACK]

There is no sending restriction features avalible in Exchange that will allow you to limit where they send to. You would need to use an extra piece of software. At our school we use Surfcontrol Email Filter. It can be a bit temperamental at times but it is very efficient at handling spam both inside and outside the organization.