Exchange 2003 sending to nested DL's

actually I made sure she is sending it from the GAL - the All Staff group is listed in the GAL - I am sending it the same way - although I think she is Outlook 2003 cache mode - is it possible her OAB is screwed up?  I am streteching here...I am kind of confused on this thing.  My first thought was...maybe she is sending it to her own "All Staff" DL in her personal contacts but no dice - she is using the GAL.

I guess another way to approach this is this...if a message is sent to distribution or security group being used for distribution purposes is there any way to determine if all the members received it?  Besides going to each recipient individually and asking them.

i am currently in process of checking the child groups but it does not seem so - I have not gone through all of them - but so far all have accept from everyone permissions - i will need to check them all though - however, i beleive that if any of the groups were not allowing her to send to them she would get a NDR stating that you do not have permission to send the this group.

It is still strange that when the messages are tracked they "look" different in the tracking center - mine shows 1 recipient while hers shows 210 or something like that - but we both sent to the same group from the GAL

That seems to indicate the group expanding is different or wrong. Do you have more than one server? I cannot think of anything that would make Exchange handle it in a different way for different users.

Simon.

Yes - there are 2 back end Exchange servers.   Myself and this user have our mail stores on opposite servers.  That being said how could I troubleshoot if her server is perhaps expanding the group incorrectly?  She actually may not be the only user experiencing the issue - I may run a test with another user that is homed to that mailserver.

The first thing to do is determine the expansion server and ensure that it is the same.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997033.aspx

That could be an indication of where the problem is.

Simon.

All of my groups are set to any server in the org for expansion.  Is there any way to determine which server did the actual expansion when a message is sent to a DL?

I don't believe the expansion information is logged anywhere. That is of course presuming it is the expansion server that is the problem.

Simon.