Naming Convention – I am trying to think of a naming convention, to my existing structure. We’ve decided to use mail-enabled Global Security Groups. My Global Security Groups start as: GS_[depart]_**** My Distribution Groups start as: DL-[depart]-***** Anyone have any ideas, of a naming convention to distinguish between a GS & DL group that is mail enabled ?

On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:04:52 +0000, Semperfi4000 wrote: > > >Naming Convention ? > >I am trying to think of a naming convention, to my existing structure. We?ve decided to use mail-enabled Global Security Groups. > >My Global Security Groups start as: GS_[depart]_**** > >My Distribution Groups start as: DL-[depart]-***** > >Anyone have any ideas, of a naming convention to distinguish between a GS & DL group that is mail enabled ? From a user's perspective they're both just distribution groups. From an adminstrator's perspective you have to ask why you mail-enable security groups. You, as an admin, can distinguish between a distribution and security group, so naming them differently only matters to users. --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP

I don't particularly like mail-enabled Security Groups. But, they do come useful, when empowering users to manage certain resources. When listing your Groups, via AD or the GAL, it would be nice to know if the DL is a Security Group. I could leave well-enough alone, and mail-enable the group.. I do have a 3rd party Audit App, that can send me alerts when users have been added. In addition, I do find < i could be wrong > if using Public Folders, you have to use mail-enabled groups.

On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 15:51:59 +0000, Semperfi4000 wrote: >I don't particularly like mail-enabled Security Groups. But, they do come useful, when empowering users to manage certain resources. When listing your Groups, via AD or the GAL, it would be nice to know if the DL is a Security Group. Then name them in a way that makes sense to you and to the people that will use them. As an admin, you can tell a distribution group from a security group by other means than its name. > I could leave well-enough alone, and mail-enable the group.. I do have a 3rd party Audit App, that can send me alerts when users have been added. > >In addition, I do find < i could be wrong > if using Public Folders, you have to use mail-enabled groups. But they don't have to in the GAL. :-) --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP