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Hi Mark, Thanks for your help thus far and don't worry about the spelling mine isn't great either. With the new Exchange 2007 box I am aiming on giving my students access to OWA for the first time in addition to Staff who currently have access to our 2003 OWA. My thinking with multiple GALs is thus ... Staff GAL - which has staff & students listed with full first and surname in addition to all distrubtion lists Student GAL - which is for Students that have only students listed with first and surname and staff in formal format (Mr A Smith) and a very small number of contats/distubution lists. It would be nice in the long run to be able to give students access via outlook as well as OWA, but moving up to OWA from suqirrel mail as an IMAP front end for students is the first main goal so that the share address book doesn't have to me manualy changed when someone arrives or leaves, or changes jobs as it is soo far out of date it isn't funny! Sorry to be trying to think outside of the corporate box that the product was designed for, but we're a school so we'll try and make it do much more than originaly designed, just like everyone else here... Thanks

Thanks Mark for the update. These were the lines I was thinking on, but that still wouldn't give the students an address book with staff showing in the form [email protected] but it is deffinatly closer to a workable solution.

Hi Mark, Thanks for your replay, that does offer some help, but I was hoping to find a way of generating 2 GALs one with full names for the staff to use as a number of our staff (especially the TAs) are only known to staff by their first names, but as you point out "Mr A Smith" is exactly what I want to show in the GAL for the students to use. As always if the teachers weren't so vain and students had more respect it wouldn't be a problem to just have everyone's full names in a single GAL and be done with it, but as I work in a school why should I expect such sense to prevail? Any thoughts? Thanks

Hi Guys, I am setting up a new exchange 2007 server to replace an old 2003 box which is failing, my staff have used OWA but the kids have used SquirrelMail to access email via IMAP so that they get a different address list. I have successfully setup a new GAL for the students and what I want to do is list all of the students (easy bit that works so far) and the staff (the problem). Our staff are in AD with First name & Surname, but it is wanted that staff should appear as Mr F Smith instead of Fred Smith. I don't want to change the users in AD as having their full names in AD is very useful and will be wanted in the Staff Address Book. I had the thought of using Contacts with just the info in that are needed but I cannot create a contact that has the same email address as a user in AD! I can continue to grant students access via SquirrelMail but I'd prefer to crack this problem and give them access to the benefits of having OWA access. Any help you can offer would be great. Thanks