2003 Exchange environment. We have a user that maintains many distribution groups with several hundred customer email addresses in her outlook 2007 address book. She is wanting to publish these distribution groups to Active Directory so that automated reports can be mailed to our customers via these Distribution Groups. I can load these SMTP addresses into AD just fine as contacts. But I want to know if there is a way to allow our user to maintain the SMTP addresses in the Distribution Group. Add, Remove, Update, etc. Thanks,Jacen

On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:12:46 +0000, VOND wrote: > > >2003 Exchange environment. > >We have a user that maintains many distribution groups with several hundred customer email addresses in her outlook 2007 address book. She is wanting to publish these distribution groups to Active Directory so that automated reports can be mailed to our customers via these Distribution Groups. > >I can load these SMTP addresses into AD just fine as contacts. But I want to know if there is a way to allow our user to maintain the SMTP addresses in the Distribution Group. Add, Remove, Update, etc. Make that person the "manager" of the DL and check the box that allows the manager to make changes to the DL. Now find the DL in the GAL and open its property page. From there they should be able to add and remove members in the DL. --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP

Hi jacen, Rich gave some good information, any update for your issue? Regards! Gavin TechNet Subscriber Support in forum If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.com 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.

Rich, I have tried your suggestion. However, it only seems to work if an administrator first creates an exchange contact for the customer's SMTP address in AD. Only then will the user be able to add the customer's address to the Distribution List (DL). Is there a way to cut out the administrative effort and have the user add SMTP addresses directly to the DL? Thanks,Jacen

Unfortunately members of a DL must be represented as Active Directory objects, so if you wish to add an external address to a Dl, it must first be in AD as a mail enabled contact.

On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:39:08 +0000, VOND wrote: >Rich, I have tried your suggestion. However, it only seems to work if an administrator first creates an exchange contact for the customer's SMTP address in AD. Only then will the user be able to add the customer's address to the Distribution List (DL). The question you asked was: "But I want to know if there is a way to allow our user to maintain the SMTP addresses in the Distribution Group". >Is there a way to cut out the administrative effort and have the user add SMTP addresses directly to the DL? No, a DL contains members that are Active Directory objects. You can create an OU and give this person permission to manage Contacts in that OU, though. Or you could use something like this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa493864(EXCHG.80).aspx Have that person prepare a file with the necessary information and they just use that to create the mail-enabled contacts. This is a lot easier with Exchange 2007 or 2010 and Powershell. --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP

Hi Jacen, -> Is there a way to cut out the administrative effort and have the user add SMTP addresses directly to the DL? A: Per my known, it must need manager to approval. Or we could use a script to run every day to add the new member into the DL. Regards! Gavin TechNet Subscriber Support in forum If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.com 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.