outlook 365- groups

Question

In a group what is the difference between a mailcontact and a guestmailuser. Why do my members show up as both a mailcontact and a guestmailuser. How do you change a member to either a mailcontact and a guestmailuser.

Answer 1

Hi Jzullo

I'm Anna and I'd be happy to help you with your question.

A mail contact is an email address outside your organization that you want to be able to add to distribution lists and include in your global address book.

A guest mail user is a guest user whose email is recorded in Exchange as if they were a mail contact. You cannot create or edit a guest mail user in Exchange; they appear here more for information than anything else. If you need to edit them, use the Azure AD portal.

To learn more, please refer to the link below

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/recipients-exchange-2013-help?redirectedfrom=MSDN

Also, since this an Office forum, and the query is related to Exchange Administrator, I suggest you post this query in the following TechNet forum for better suggestions:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvrclients/threads

I hope this helps ;-), let me know if this is contrary to what you need, I would still be helpful to answer more of your questions.

Best Regards,

Anna

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