I am constantly asked to update the company's Global Address List (Exchange 2003) with frequently changing additions, deletions, and modifications to the distribution groups that we have set up. The members of these distributions are contacts in the active directory. What is the best way to empower to the end user to make these changes and eliminate this as a task I need to perform?
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The best solution is to use the tick box in the Manager can update members option.
Then they can use Outlook to manage group memberships without any need to change Active Directory permisions.
You need to assign a manager to Security Group using the Managed by tab and then checking the Manager can update address lists.
Regards
Steve
Business Accounts
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by: gupnitPosted on 2008-07-17 at 20:36:39ID: 22032710
Hi,
You have to plan your strategy based upon how much of a delegation are you willing to give to your end user.
Assumumption 1:
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You want end users to only add/remove users from Distrbution Group
Suggestion:
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Assumumption 2:
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You want end users to add/remove users from Distrbution Group and also add/delete users
Suggestion:
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Well, in that case you can create a OU and delegate the identified user the permission to add/remove users. and then follow the suggestion above for the DG.
Hope this is what you were looking for. Any clarifications - contact me :-)
Thanks
Nitin Gupta