While I'm no an expert, I do talk with lot's of companies about managing Exchange 5.5 DL's and E2K Groups.
The approach Mitchell describes is common and works fine for many small to mid sized companies. When organizations reach a certain size, this approach can become unwieldy. The problem is that the departmental groups need to be maintained manually. Maintenance of these groups is often delegated to a local administrator who may or may not be diligent in keeping up with adds and changes. Another problem comes about with reorganizations. When new departments are created (and others consolidated) there becomes a task of creating the new departmental groups and deleting old groups. With reorganization, organizations find the "all users" group has suddenly become inaccurate just when the need to communicate is greatest. Mike Wohlgemuth uses the advance find tab to find all his exchange recipients. The draw back here is that the list is only accurate for that moment. Since the query is not saved, Mike needs to go through this process every time he wants to update the group membership. I might suggest you look at "FREE MODE" SmartDL from Imanami. "FREE MODE" SmartDL will allow you create groups and maintain their membership using SmartDL intuitive query designer. The bonus is that SmartDL saves the query with the Group so you only need to go through the process once. You can maintain your groups with one simple "update now" click. Of course you automate the updates by purchasing the full release of SmartDL but I'm not here to SPAM the list with a solicitation. You can download FREE SmartDL http://www.imanami.com/download/. Make a note on your download form that you want "Free Mode" SmartDL and the sales coordinator will approve your request. SmartDL in "Free Mode" supports Exchange 5.5, E2K and 2003 and can be used in production with paying a nickel. Kevin -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DL.Exchange Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 8:19 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: sending mail to all users The way we have it set up is each user belongs to a departmental, mail-enabled, security group. Those groups are also part of the main All users distribution list. Only users that have mailboxes will get mail from the all users distribution list of course.... Thank you, Mitchell D. Lawrence **<Good|Cheap|Fast> (Pick Two)** -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted At: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 8:33 AM Posted To: ~Exchange Discussion~ Conversation: sending mail to all users Subject: sending mail to all users Hi, How can I send an Email to all of our Exchange 2000 users? (i.e. we want to have a distribution list [EMAIL PROTECTED]) We have a distribution list that contains both individual Email addresses and other distribution lists. The members of the distributions lists do not seem to be getting the Email. Is this a known bug? TIA, Dave _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
