DynamicDistributionGroup for all users in a particular storage group

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re: DynamicDistributionGroup for all users in a particular storage group

flaphead — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:25:39 GMT

That me a long while back. I fixed it here:

http://blogs.flaphead.dns2go.com/archive/2007/05/10/exchange-2007-dynamic-distributions-groups.aspx

You need the –organizationalUnit "<domain>/<ou>" in the new-distributiongroup

also is you have more than one server the get-mailboxdatabase doesn't work, you need to specify the server\sg name.

Sorry ;-)

http://blogs.flaphead.dns2go.com/archive/2007/07/10/dynamicdistributiongroup-for-all-users-in-a-particular-storage-group.aspx

DynamicDistributionGroup for all users in a particular storage group

Carpe Diem: Flaphead.com @ Home — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:27:29 GMT

Sorry Evan , but just to correct you a little bit. ;-) but you need <ServerName>\<SG> in

re: DynamicDistributionGroup for all users in a particular storage group

evand — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:11:10 GMT

RE: -Server switch

Well, not necessarily. If you have only one mailbox server or one server with storage groups you don't need it. :)

But, of course, in the real world you're right. Generally, you'll need to better qualify what mailbox databases you really want to add to the DDGs. -Server is one way of doing that.

re: DynamicDistributionGroup for all users in a particular storage group

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:19:05 GMT

Is it possible to create an opath query to filter out members of a particular OU? I can't seem to find any filterable properties to do so. Thanks.

re: DynamicDistributionGroup for all users in a particular storage group

evand — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:31:01 GMT

Anonymous - Nope, OU position is really nothing more than "what is my DN". And for the same reason we can't create a filter for "database -like *myDatabase*", we can't create a filter for "OU -like *myOU*". Well, sort of the same reason: we can't do DN partial matches as part of an OPATH filter.

That said, the good news is that if your goal is to create a DDG, there's a parameter "-RecipientContainer" which lets you define the root DN of the DDG expansion. Simply define the OU that contains users you want to send to as this parameter and include all recipients in the OPATH filter. Note that this will not work for EAP/AL/GAL, as they don't have RecipientContainer parameter...