Administration
Tip: Maintaining
Address Lists That Are Based
on Group Membership
Posted: June 05, 2002
By using Exchange
2000, administrators can create address lists based on
specified
criteria. For example, if you are an administrator, you
can create an address list based on
the Company attribute of an object so that, for example,
only objects with a company
name "Microsoft" are displayed in the address
list.
You can also use group membership as a criterion for an
address list. However, if you do,
you must take one of the following special measures when
you add users to groups or
remove users from groups:
Manually start a rebuild of the Recipient Update Service.
Modify an additional attribute of the user that you are
adding or removing from a
group.
Performing one of these modifications is necessary because,
in Microsoft Active
Directory® directory service, the user object does
not include group membership
information. Active Directory calculates a user's group
membership on an as-needed
basis. When you make a user a member of a group, no new
information is stored with the
user object. Because no new information is stored and
the object has not been formally
updated, the Recipient Update Service does not automatically
check to determine whether
the object belongs on new address lists.
If you start a rebuild manually, the Recipient Update
Service updates the address lists as
usual. If you modify a static attribute of the user object,
that is, an attribute for which
value is not automatically calculated, the Recipient Update
Service automatically detects
that the user object was modified and updates the appropriate
address lists.
This tip is provided by the Microsoft Exchange User Education
team.
For additional information, see the Microsoft TechNet
Exchange site.
