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renaming fields in GAL, Microsoft Exchan

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by kiriklv 1 view

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Hi All,

Our organization wanted that all of its employee should insert their messenger Ids in Global Address List. I being an exchange administrator, thought of using fax, assistant field in Phone/notes tab of GAL to include Yahoo Id and AOL id.So that all our company users can insert their messenger Ids in their address book using galmod32.exe application.

So I started the exchange server in raw mode,I renamed fax and assistnace field. I open several mailboxes from GAB and found that, itindeed shows Yahoo Id and AOL Id instead of fax and assistance. But when I used Galmod32.exe to edit the field, it showed fax and assistance. :(
Am I missing anything here?

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by mindgate

Yes. Having customized Exchange a bit in the past, you're going to need to run the Omsgclas.exe tool...run a search on the MS Knowledge Base for a link to download this tool. The other possiblility is that you only applied the changes locally, instead of globally. You need to save them back to the standard forms library - again, for good articles on this, see the MSKB, because you need to be careful doing this - it's like hacking the registry - you can make the mods, but you have to be careful to make note of exactly what you are changing. Hope this helps!

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