
The benefits to the client can be immense. To meet this demand, more and more counsellors are offering the possibility of therapy via Skype. However, time restrictions and other commitments at home mean it can be difficult for people to arrange regular counselling sessions. Not all client issues may be appropriate for counselling via video link (see later section Online counselling: factors to consider), and being in the same room with your counsellor will generally be many clients’ first preference. They concluded that this form of counselling is “generally associated with good user satisfaction and is found to have similar clinical outcomes to traditional face-to-face psychotherapy”. In 2012, psychologist Dr Autumn Backhaus and her associates conducted a literature review of studies on videoconferencing psychotherapy (VCP), examining 65 articles. Research indicates that the outcome for clients who have undertaken counselling via video link can be similar to those having standard therapy in person. Skype is speedy to download, and so long as you have a web camera and microphone, you will be able to be seen and heard by anyone at any point in the world for free if they also have the programme and equipment in place. I compared all AD attributes between a couple of accounts and found the users created after the migration did not have the 'mailNickname' attribute set - this is due to the fact you can make an account work on the Office 365 tenant by simply setting the 'proxyAddresses' attribute which is how all newer mailboxes had been commissioned.Ĭonfirmed after manually setting the 'mailNickname' attribute and doing "start-adsyncsynccylce -Policytype Initial" the mailboxes were hidden from the GAL across the board."Skype" is free computer software that permits people to chat face-to-face, in real-time, through their computer screens.

I ended up doing some 'stare and compare' between users that were successfully hidden from the GAL everywhere and those that were not, it quickly became apparent the accounts that were originally created in Exchange and migrated to 365 were the accounts successfully being hidden from the GAL.

Requirement was to keep shared mailboxes in Office 365 (eg: could not simply stop synchronizing these users) for archive purposes but prevent those mailboxes from appearing when searching the GAL Setting the AD attribute ' msExchHideFromAddressList' to TRUE resulted in the mailbox being hidden from the GAL when using Outlook client but NOT when viewed in Web mail or Skype Email in Office 365 tenant (migrated from on prem Exchange 2010) I finally found a solution to this issue so hopefully this will assist others.
