Create A Custom Address List Exchange Server

To create a custom address List with expressions that contain Active Directory attributes and Wildcard we need to use custom address list using PowerShell.

The Exchange cmdlet that creates the address lists Is:

New-AddressList

Set-Addresslist

Address lists available to view In EAC -> Organization -> Address Lists

If you use the GUI you will see that many attributes are missing like using Alias, Samaccountname, etc.

In the example below I’ll create a custom address list with using -and

New-AddressList -Name “Engineering” -container “IT” -RecipientFilter {(samaccountname -like ‘IT*’) -and (CustomAttribute3 -like ‘200’) }

New-AddressList -Name “IT Sales” -RecipientFilter {(CustomAttribute3 -like ‘250’)}

Once you run the Recipient Filter look like the page below:


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