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Populate Global Distribution List from Excel
This is probably stupid simple, but I'm being lazy.
I have a list of email addresses, that I would like to create a new Global Dist list in Exchange. From Active Directory I open our OU, add new global dist, but how do I populate the members? I can only select from existing domain objects. Am I going to have to create a Contacts user for each one of these then create the list? I know it is pretty easy to import the list to Outlook, but I would like this group visible to anyone not just individual outlook accounts.
I have a list of email addresses, that I would like to create a new Global Dist list in Exchange. From Active Directory I open our OU, add new global dist, but how do I populate the members? I can only select from existing domain objects. Am I going to have to create a Contacts user for each one of these then create the list? I know it is pretty easy to import the list to Outlook, but I would like this group visible to anyone not just individual outlook accounts.
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bhieb
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That is the issue. I don't want to have to add all of them as contacts, then add them to a dist list. No one will ever send to just one of them. I can easily create a group in Outlook that has a bunch of external addresses without adding each address as a contact as well. I just wanted to do it at the exchange level instead so it would show up under the GAL. But again I don't want a bunch of contacts no one will ever send to.
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James Murphy
You can easily add internal users to a distribution list If you want to add the external users, then you should've contact created for them in the AD. Also, could you please ellaborate your issue.
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