Contacts in the GAL

[Mulligans]

Exchange 2003, we have about 300 contacts in our GAL that we want to get rid of, as it is an admin nightmare. I want to make this painless to users, is there a way to run a report of some kind to get a list of who uses those contacts or who has linked a distribution list to those contacts? I have NK2view so I can run a batch file and get them out of everyones outlook cache after they are deleted. Just want to make it easier on people.

 

[58sniper]

Actually, you'd need something that can parse your messaeg tracking logs to see if mail is being sent to the email addresses listed in contacts. This is a LOT simpler in 2007 with PowerShell (which could also auto-delete outdated contacts). Maybe MessageStats (

http://www.quest.com/messagestats/)

could report on this.

Pat Richard MVP
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[ntinlin]

We use Promodag here, I just checked and it has a Mail Contact usage report.

Obviously it's only as good as the tracking information you can pull in from Exchange which defaults to 30 days.

MessageStats will probably have the same but I haven't used it for a few months so can't quite remember. There is a document on the Quest website which lists all the reports it does.

Promodag do a 45 day trial version from their website, as does MessageStats I think.

Neill

 

[58sniper]

Keep in mind that tracking logs only show whether something was sent to the address defined in a contact. They can't tell the difference between someone typing the address and someone picking the contact (destination is the same).

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.

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