Re: Adding many external contacts to Exchange   

Hi Kirrin,

I'm attempting to do something similar on a newly installed Exchange 2007 
system and am having the following problems.  (I am totally new to exchange, 
please help if you can.)

1.  I have delegated administration of a DL to a given user, but really 
don't feel comfortable having her add / remove contacts through AD or the 
Exchange Mgmt Console.  What else can be used, or how can I totally restrict 
her activites to only add / remove if she has to use eaither of the above 
tools?

2.  Also regarding DLs:  A given distribution list made up of employees and 
outside contacts; only employees are allowed to post / reply to emails sent 
out across the listserv.  management wants to change this so that external 
contacts can also reply / post to the list.  How do I do this?

Thank you for any help you may have for me,

James



"Kirrin Jones" wrote:

> There are third party tools that I'm sure that can do what you want, but 
> I always try to make what I have do what I want before looking outside, 
> so...
> 
> 1. You will need to create what is called a Contact in AD. Doing that 
> 1000+ times might be the deterrent but not sure if you can do it in 
> Excel and import.
> 
> 2. You will of course create your required OU and add the contacts 
> according.
> 
> 3. Once an DL is in the AD, then there is no way to prevent some persons 
> from seeing it. Its either visible or not. You can however restrict who 
> can send to that DL via the Exchange General tab of the Properties of 
> that DL.
> 
> 4. As for seeing the members of the group, you can either place the 
> group in the BCC field, which would make sure that they not even see the 
> name of the DL or you can hide the members of the group so that it 
> cannot be expanded.
> 
> Hope that I have at least indicated to you that it can be done, it just 
> needs some time (especially) to enter the e-mail addresses.
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> smc2005 wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > I work as network admin at a school and we are exploring methods of sending 
> > out information to parents that doesn't involve chopping down rain forests. I 
> > know that external contacts can be added to AD and will be picked up in 
> > Exchange address lists. What we need to do is:
> > 
> > 1. Add 1000+ contacts
> > 2. These contacts to go into the relevant OU for that year group (for 
> > example, all year 3 parents go into a year 3 folder) for easy management
> > 3. A Distribution List to be created for each year group
> > 4. Only certain people to be able to see and send to the Distribution Lists
> > 5. Whan a parent recieves an email, they shouldn't be able to see the email 
> > addresses of other parents (I know that  within Outlook you can expand a DL 
> > and see it's members)
> > 
> > I've got a feeling that Exchange might not be the tool to do this with but I 
> > need to check what we can do with the tools we have. I would very much 
> > appreciate any help that anyone can give me.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > Steve.
>

date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:18:01 -0700   author:   ainsof220