Jorge answered this pretty well. Yes the name/cn can be the same if the groups are in different containers.
The sAMAccountNames need to be different if in the same domain. The displayName should be different or you could get some serious confusion if you mailenable both. The Distribution Group being changed to a security group could be a standard function done by Exchange. When someone, ANYONE, decides they want to use a DL for securiing anything in Exchange, Exchange will "help" you out and convert that group to a security group. It doesn't matter if it is the lowest person in your company, they can do it because Exchange is doing it in the security context that Exchange has which allows it to much with group types. You can block this by mucking with your AD Delegation for Exchange but if Microsoft PSS ever figured out on accident[1] that you did this, you would be hearing the unsupported configuration talk. joe [1] I don't expect they would look directly for something like this. It would completely be, lets look at a good one and a bad one and WHOAH! This is missing, what will it break? I don't know but it isn't the way it is supposed to be! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christine Allen Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 10:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ActiveDir] Security Groups vs. Distribution Groups We are running 2000 AD. I have two groups named the same. One group is a security group and one is a distribution. They are in different OU's. Can having a Management security group cause some type of issue with a Management Distribution group in ad? The Management distirbution group will change to a security group. Could it be becase they have the same name? List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
