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I don't know much about AD so I have one question, I am running 2003 AD environment and my exchange is also 2003, I have a few distribution groups and inside some local employees. What I need to do is also add one email address to the distribution list that's not part of my domain, the user is in a different domain different company exc. but to add in distribution group I guess they have to be part of your domain. So how could I add an email address to the distribution group so If I send an email to that distribution group not only will the local domain users get the email but also the one that's not in our domain?
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Computer, Group, Printer, User, Shared Folder, those are the 5 options that I have when I try to create an object in any part of the AD, I guess not being domain admins and only site admins is preventing me to have access to this. I changed to advanced view just to make sure it's not something that is hidden but still nothing.
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Ahh never mind I found it.
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In addition to user objects, you can create contact objects. Typically you create a user object for each employee of your organization and a contact object for each person outside your organization whose contact information you want to store. A contact object can contain a subset of the properties that a user object can contain, as you can see in Figure 3.8 and Table 3.7.
A contact object (actually, the person who corresponds to the object) can never log on to the network. Also, a contact object is not a security principal, so it cannot have any permissions. Of course, even if a contact object had permissions, no one would be able to use them, because a contact object cannot be used to log on.
Creating Contacts
To create a contact, you use the contact creation wizard in the Users and Computers snap-in. The wizard has only one page, which is shown in Figure 3.11. A contact object is like an address book entry for e-mail and other applications, and it contains only informational properties. It usually represents a person who is not working for your company, and a contact cannot log on to your network. Therefore, you don’t specify a logon name for a contact object. The "Full name" entry becomes the common name of the object in the OU tree.
A contact object (actually, the person who corresponds to the object) can never log on to the network. Also, a contact object is not a security principal, so it cannot have any permissions. Of course, even if a contact object had permissions, no one would be able to use them, because a contact object cannot be used to log on.
Creating Contacts
To create a contact, you use the contact creation wizard in the Users and Computers snap-in. The wizard has only one page, which is shown in Figure 3.11. A contact object is like an address book entry for e-mail and other applications, and it contains only informational properties. It usually represents a person who is not working for your company, and a contact cannot log on to your network. Therefore, you don’t specify a logon name for a contact object. The "Full name" entry becomes the common name of the object in the OU tree.
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