Thanks all for the good suggestions. Between maybe creating a separate OU and doing some PowerShell, I think I can get this handled.. :)
Appreciate all of the ideas. Alice -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: Friday, July 31, 2015 9:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Exchange] PS Script to see if specific DL has had members added recently to offset admins adding wrong people Something like this might work for you: Send an email with Powershell http://powershell.com/cs/media/p/251.aspx Using the data gathered here: PS C:\BatchFiles> $Names = Get-ADGroupMember exadmins | select name PS C:\BatchFiles> $LastChanged = Get-ADGroup CriticalGroupName -properties WhenChanged | select (@{Name="LastChanged"; Expression={$_.WhenChanged.ToString("u")}}) $Names only contains the current members of the group(s) you select, but the second line will tell you when the group was last updated in some way. Kurt On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Alice Goodman <[email protected]> wrote: > New hires are inadvertently getting added to distribution lists when > profiles are copied. Is there a way to stop this from happening on more > strictly controlled lists? (I know, stop hitting head against the wall…) > > This is becoming a BIG problem here. Does anyone know of some > PowerShell that we can run nightly or weekly against maybe 20 key DL’s > to see if anyone has been added to them in the past xx time? Or some other > solution? > > The issue is that the Admins in Help Desk create new users by copying > other users that “resemble’ the new hire. I know that using Templates > would be the best way, but that has never been implemented here. I > realize that I am looking for a solution to a bad practice. > > I looked at Owner Approval, but an Admin updating a DL does not cause > that to be triggered. Only end-users, using OWA. > > Thanks, > Alice > >
