Allowing Outlook to edit Distribution Lists/User Details 1

[plattze]

What do I have to do to go about giving permissions for users to edit there own details in Outlook (name etc), and to allow Domain Admins to edit anyones?

At the moment I have a few distribution lists I want edited, and because purely dont completely understand the entire Active Directory topology, it will be alot easier to edit the distribution list via Outlook.

 

[xmsre]

when you look at a distribution list in outlook, you are looking at the GC partition. The trick is to point to a GC partition that is writable. Then, with the proper permissions, you can edit the membership of a DL through outlook.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;306349

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;281489

 

[plattze]

We have 2 AD Servers. It seems that Outlook clients swap and change between the two randomly, and both servers replicate to each other.

Can you please explain what you mean by the GC partition? Can't each server modify the Active Directory Sec/Distribution Groups, then replicate the changes to each other?

 

[plattze]

Okay. More Info

I looked at which GC server my outlook client was using, connect to it and started modifying the entries in the security groups members on it via terminal services.

So far, out of the three I have played with, 2 work, any changes I make are shown in outlook.

However: One group has alot of members (~20). When I view it's members in Active Directory Properties, it shows everyone. But in outlook, it only shows about half.

I've compared this group to a group which works fine when I edit it (in regards to memebership), and the only difference is that the one which doesnt work is "Global % Security" with 'members of' two other security groups which are "domain groups". The ones which work, are simply "Universal & Security" with an empty 'members of' tab.

The thing is. The reason I need to edit this group which doesnt work, is to add certain staff to the group which need to be part of it's email list, but these staff are already in the Active Directory membership properties, but just don't show up in outlook. :/

 

[plattze]

Found the Problem, and I honestly can't believe it.

The problem was, the users who weren't showing up in Outlook as belonging to the groups, was because there Primary Group was not set to "Domain Users". It was previously set to the same group which they werent showing up in inside outlook.

Changed them to domain users, and it's all good.

 

[dmw]

xmsre, thanks for this info. I have been looking everywhere to figure out this issue. It was because we are a child domain, and the parent domain has the DL, so I pointed my outlook to the parent domain GC and that solved the issue.

Thanks again...