Remove Address Book Policy with PowerShell in Exchange

You like to remove an Address Book Policy (ABP) with PowerShell in Exchange. Let’s show you the commands that you need. In this article, you learn how to list the ABPs and how to remove that particular policy. What are we waiting for? Let’s start.

Get Address Book Policy

Let’s first get all the Address Book Policies in the organization. Run Exchange Management Shell as administrator. Run the following command.

[PS] C:\>Get-AddressBookPolicy | Format-Table


RunspaceID         : 409501a9-8d97-4d23-5158-1e7ab40bdcdf
AddressLists       : {\All Rooms}
GlobalAddressList  : \Default Global Address List
RoomList           : \All Rooms
OfflineAddressBook : \Default Offline Address Book
IsDefault          : False
AdminDisplayName   :
ExchangeVersion    : 0.10 (14.0.100.0)
Name               : Test
DistinguishedName  : CN=Test,CN=AddressBook Mailbox Policies,CN=alitajran,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=alitajran,DC=local
Guid               : 79cdd790-f8bb-4d8f-b04e-06e40d5f511f
ObjectCategory     : alitajran.local/Configuration/Schema/ms-Exch-Address-Book-Mailbox-Policy
ObjectClass        : {top, msExchRecipientTemplate, msExchAddressBookMailboxPolicy
WhenChanged        : 15-4-2019 21:46:45
WhenCreated        : 28-11-2018 11:06:21
WhenChangedUTC     : 15-4-2019 19:46:45
WhenCreatedUTC     : 28-11-2018 10:06:21
OrganizationId     :
Id                 : Test
OriginatingServer  : DC01.alitajran.local
IsValid            : True
ObjectState        : Unchanged

Now that we know of the policy named Test, we like to remove it.

Remove Address Book Policy

Run the following command to remove the policy Test and confirm with Y.

[PS] C:\>Remove-AddressBookPolicy -Identity "Test"

Confirm
Are you sure you want to perform this action?
Removing address book policy "Test".
[Y] Yes  [A] Yes to All  [N] No  [L] No to All  [?] Help (default is "Y"): Y

Address Book Policy is deleted. You can confirm by running the command. This will list all the address book policies in the organization.

[PS] C:\>Get-AddressBookPolicy

Conclusion

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