Introduction to the Global Address Book

The Global Address Book contains a list of everyone with an email address on Exchange Online - which should be all people within the UoC. It allows you to quickly address your email without having to save individual contact records for everyone, and to easily look up people on a directory within our email systems.

The Global Address Book allows you to look up or type someone's name into the To field in an email message to send them an email rather than having to type their entire email address. To use the Global Address Book either click on the  box in a new message or start typing someone's name in the To field and press Ctrl + K to auto complete.

Requirements:

You need an Exchange Online email account.

Instructions:

Managing your address book listing within University systems

You can change how your name appears within Exchange Online (or Teams) by following this UIS guide: https://help.uis.cam.ac.uk/service/collaboration/365/exchange-online/how-access-your-mailbox/manage-your-address-book-listing

Manually update (or download) the Global Address Book to a Windows Computer

The Global Address Book on your computer doesn't update instantaneously so you may notice that you don't see a new starter on the list.  To force the address book to update, follow the instructions below.

How to initiate a manual update