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The following diagram shows how ABPs work. The user is assigned Address Book Policy A that contains a subset of address lists that are available in the organization. When the ABP is created and assigned to the user, the ABP becomes the scope of the address lists that the user is able to view. The CEO is the only employee common to both companies.

One ABP is assigned to Fabrikam employees. Users who view the CEO's group membership can see only groups that belong to their company. They can't see groups that belong to the other company. This reduces network traffic and improves performance. Note: A Microsoft Exchange Server account is required. Therefore, not all the information in the GAL is available in the offline address book. The following information in the GAL might not be available in the offline address book:.

Custom properties that are added by a server administrator, such as the employee ID of each employee. Outlook must be able to access Exchange to obtain this information. Therefore, if you are working in Cached Exchange Mode and if you are working online — that is, your connection status is Connected to Microsoft Exchange — Outlook uses both the offline address book and the GAL to provide a complete listing of user information.

If you are in Cached Exchange Mode and your connection status is Disconnected , Trying to Connect , or Offline , you can see only the information that is in the offline address book. Note: If you're using Cached Exchange Mode, we recommend that you download the full details of the offline address book.

This reduces the number of times the Outlook window might become unresponsive and the number of unnecessary connections to the Microsoft Windows Server Active Directory. If Outlook is left running constantly in Cached Exchange Mode, it automatically updates the offline address book about one time per day depending on updates on the computer that is running Exchange. Note : Email address policies are available in Exchange Online, but only for Microsoft groups. For more information, see Choose the domain to use when creating Microsoft Groups.

For help with everyday email tasks, such as organizing your contacts in Outlook, see Microsoft training. You can find help including:. Add an email contact. Import your contacts. Create a contact group. Send an email message to a contact group.

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