We have certain number of groups in our Address Book, that are not in use for quite sometime. Such groups were created for different projects/events, which have no use now. Is there any automated way to remove such useless items from Address Book? Checking first, if the group is in use or not and if not in use then removing it from the Address Book. Thank you.

On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 08:06:13 +0000, khattaking wrote: >We have certain number of groups in our Address Book, that are not in use for quite sometime. Such groups were created for different projects/events, which have no use now. > >Is there any automated way to remove such useless items from Address Book? > >Checking first, if the group is in use or not and if not in use then removing it from the Address Book. The only way to know if the group isn't used is to gather that information from the message tracking logs. The expansion of a group is recorded there. You could put the date of the latest expansion into a custom attribute and after some period of time (a year, maybe?) any group that hasn't been expanded will not have a value in the custom attribute. Those would be good candidates to be removed. --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP

Thank you Rich. This is exactly what we are doing and there are so many groups that are not needed. I was just curious if there was any automated way to perform both operations (picking and deleting) through some script and rest after that. :) Grateful for your time again. Thank you.

On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 14:18:02 +0000, khattaking wrote: >Thank you Rich. This is exactly what we are doing and there are so many groups that are not needed. > >I was just curious if there was any automated way to perform both operations (picking and deleting) through some script and rest after that. :) This will produce a file of DLs that were expanded in the message tracking logs (and a lot more). I run it each day and use that file as input to a powershell script that tags the DLs with the date: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/02/07/448082.aspx --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP