Can you build or form a custom address list based on a AD object or value? Say group membership or even down to an attribute viewable by adsiedit. Or can address lists only be formed from exchange enabled accounts? I noticed the recipientfilter tag, but this seems to only work off exch based attributes or a very limited set of Ad attributes such as dept or country. Is there a way to query other AD attributes?

YES you can have Address List for Exchange Enabled accounts as you create the Address List in Exchange not in AD or not from Adsiedit. Gulab | MCITP: Exchange 2010-2007 | Skype: Gulab.Mallah | Blog: www.ExchangeRanger.blogspot.com

what i was refering too was can you build an address list in exchange from objects that do not have exchange attributes? Or another way to word it is can you ONLY build address lists from Exchange enabled objects

Hi, >what i was refering too was can you build an address list in exchange from objects that do not have exchange attributes? Yes, address list can be built without Exchange attributes. An address list is a collection of recipient and other Active Directory objects. Each address list can contain one or more types of objects (for example, users, contacts, groups, public folders, conferencing, and other resources). http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb232119.aspxPlease remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Ok so how do i form an address list based on membership of an Active Directory group? that is not a distribution group... or something simliar to that. What do mean about other active directory objects as i can not see how to create a address list based on certain AD objects that arent listed in the Exch Org

Hi, >how do i form an address list based on membership of an Active Directory group? create an address list: exchange 2010/2007: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb125036.aspx exchange 2003: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/create-a-custom-address-list-in-exchange-2003/5555182 >What do mean about other active directory objects as i can not see how to create a address list based on certain AD objects that arent listed in the Exch Org As I mentioned before, "Users, groups, etc..." they could be only an AD object without exchange attributes.Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

so how or were can you use the -recpientfilter flag to specify an AD group or groups? Sorry i still can't see even with powershell how i can specify a AD group to build the address list from

Hi, You can specify the value of objectCategory to group. Then all the group will list include security group and distribution group. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb738157(EXCHG.80).aspx For all groups recipientfilter{(alias -ne $null) -and (objectcategory -like 'group')} For all users recipientfilter{(alias -ne $null) and ((objectcategory -like 'person' -and objectclass -eq 'user' -and -not(database -ne $null) -and -not(serverlegacydn -ne $null)) -or (objectcategory -like 'person' -and objectclass -eq 'user' -and (database -ne $null -or serverlegacydn -ne $null))))} I hope it would be some help. Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.