How to update contact information in Exchange Online in Microsoft 365

This article describes how administrators and users can update personal contact information by using the Exchange admin center in Microsoft 365. It also discusses how administrators can limit the kind of contact information that users can update.

Administrators and users can update the following personal contact information by using the Exchange admin center:

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General:

• First name
• Initial
• Last name
• Display name

Contact location:

• Street
• City
• State/Province
• ZIP/ Postal code
• Country/Region
• Office

Contact numbers:

• Work phone
• Fax
• Home phone
• Mobile number

To update contact information, see View and update your profile in Delve. For more information about Delve, see What is Delve.

1. Sign in to the Microsoft 365 portal (https://portal.office.com) as an administrator.
2. Click Admin, and then click Exchange.
3. In the left navigation pane, click Recipients, and then click Mailboxes.
4. Double-click the user whose contact information you want to change.
5. In the User Mailbox window, click Contact Information.
6. Make the changes that you want, and then click Save.

This procedure must be applied to all user role policies in an organization.

1. Sign in to the Microsoft 365 portal (https://portal.office.com) as an administrator.

2. Click Admin, and then click Exchange.

3. In the left navigation pane, click permissions, and then click user roles.

4. Select the role that's assigned to the user. By default, the Default Role Assignment Policy is assigned to all users.

5. Click Edit ( ).

6. In the Role Assignment Policy window, under Contact Policy, make sure that the MyContactInformation and the MyProfileInformation check boxes are cleared.

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   You can also control the level of access for the user by clicking to select the two check boxes and then clicking to clear specific options that are listed under the two check boxes.

7. Click Save.

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