Aurelius1989
MIS
I got a call today asking if a specified person was a member of a certain e-mail distribution list. Normally that’s a simple request, no problem at all. But here’s what’s happening:
All our distribution lists were setup in Exchange 2003 as a “Query-based Distribution Group”. From our Server 2003 integrated AD it shows the name of the group, in this case we’ll call it “Happy Place” and a description of “Query-based Distribution Group” . From the Properties of that group I have no options available to change (everything is grayed out) via the AD Users and Computers console.
I go to the Exchange Management console and here I again see my group “Happy Place” with the description of “Dynamic Distribution Group”
When I open up the Properties everything looks normal based on my prior experience with editing Query-based groups however the difference now is I cannot edit the filter or the conditions. When I click “Preview” to see what the filter currently is – it shows every member of our Active Directory (even though e-mails sent to this list only goes to those specified within the original query).
Now I know that Exchange 2003 used LDAP queries and 2007 doesn’t and that’s a problem but I’m not sure how to address that. The information I found only basically tells me that I need to upgrade my default e-mail lists from the old LDAP to the new OPATH. Below are the links. My question to you is do you think I can run this without causing a lot of trouble for myself? All the research I see only tells me that it’s no big deal. The script will run and update them and nothing should be affected BUT I cannot find that spelled out anywhere.
Should I try this? Should I burn a Microsoft tech support call on this to be sure this will help?
Microsoft Exchange Blog – filter upgrades:
TechNET article – filter upgrades:
Script to run to upgrade:
Semi-related with OWA issues:
I’ve tried in the past to delete the query-based list out and re-create it as a new distribution group but it caused a lot of problems with sending e-mails. I believe at that time the problem was that I needed the AD and Exchange systems to replicate and refresh but I can’t be sure of that and don’t have any that I can test with to find out for sure.
What are the group’s thoughts?
Thank you!
All our distribution lists were setup in Exchange 2003 as a “Query-based Distribution Group”. From our Server 2003 integrated AD it shows the name of the group, in this case we’ll call it “Happy Place” and a description of “Query-based Distribution Group” . From the Properties of that group I have no options available to change (everything is grayed out) via the AD Users and Computers console.
I go to the Exchange Management console and here I again see my group “Happy Place” with the description of “Dynamic Distribution Group”
When I open up the Properties everything looks normal based on my prior experience with editing Query-based groups however the difference now is I cannot edit the filter or the conditions. When I click “Preview” to see what the filter currently is – it shows every member of our Active Directory (even though e-mails sent to this list only goes to those specified within the original query).
Now I know that Exchange 2003 used LDAP queries and 2007 doesn’t and that’s a problem but I’m not sure how to address that. The information I found only basically tells me that I need to upgrade my default e-mail lists from the old LDAP to the new OPATH. Below are the links. My question to you is do you think I can run this without causing a lot of trouble for myself? All the research I see only tells me that it’s no big deal. The script will run and update them and nothing should be affected BUT I cannot find that spelled out anywhere.
Should I try this? Should I burn a Microsoft tech support call on this to be sure this will help?
Microsoft Exchange Blog – filter upgrades:
TechNET article – filter upgrades:
Script to run to upgrade:
Semi-related with OWA issues:
I’ve tried in the past to delete the query-based list out and re-create it as a new distribution group but it caused a lot of problems with sending e-mails. I believe at that time the problem was that I needed the AD and Exchange systems to replicate and refresh but I can’t be sure of that and don’t have any that I can test with to find out for sure.
What are the group’s thoughts?
Thank you!