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Exchange Server Cookbook
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Exchange Server Cookbook

by Paul Robichaux, Missy Koslosky, Devin L. Ganger
June 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
464 pages
13h 2m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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5.4. Creating a Mail-Enabled Group

Problem

You need to create a new group and mail-enable it so it can be used to send messages.

Solution

Using a graphical user interface

  1. Log on to any machine in your domain that has the Exchange management tools installed.

  2. Open the ADUC snap-in (Users and Computers.msc).

  3. Locate the container in which you want the new group to reside.

  4. Right-click the target container and choose the New Group command.

  5. The New Object - Group dialog will appear.

  6. Provide a name for the group and select its scope.

  7. Click the Distribution radio button and then click Next.

  8. Check the Create an Exchange email address checkbox. Give the group a mail alias in the Alias field, then select the administrative group that should own the group object. Click Next.

  9. Click Finish on the summary page.

Using a command-line interface

You can use the dsadd command (which ships with Windows Server 2003 and can be used for some operations on Windows 2000) to add new groups from the command line. Here's an example:

> dsadd group "<groupName>" -scope <groupScope> -secgrp { yes | no } -desc <groupDesc>

<groupName> is the full DN of the group you want to create, <groupScope> is the group scope (L for local, G for global, and U for universal), and <groupDesc> is the description you want the group to have. The parameter used with the secgrp switch indicates whether you want a security group (-secgrp yes, the default) or a distribution group (-secgrp no). Once the group's added, you can use exchmbx with ...

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