Mastering Exchange Server 2016 with Powershell: Distr Groups

The purpose of this course is to prepare you to automate time-consuming administrative tasks with the help of PowerShell.

The primary audience for this course is individuals who want to become an Exchange server administrator in an enterprise environment. Also, individuals who are assuming a new role requiring skills to configure, manage, and support Microsoft Exchange Server and Office Exchange Online with Powershell.

Distribution Groups are collections of users, computers, contacts, and other groups. They are typically used only for e-mail applications. Security Groups, on the other hand, are used to grant access to resources and as e-mail distribution lists. Using nesting, you can add a group to a group. Group nesting consolidates member accounts and reduces replication traffic. Windows NT did not support Distribution Groups within the OS, but they are supported in all versions of Active Directory. Distribution Groups cannot be listed in DACLs in any version of Windows, which means they cannot be used to define permissions on resources and objects, although they can be used in DACLs at the application layer.

Microsoft Exchange is a common example. If you do not need a group for security purposes, create a Distribution Group instead.

The goal is to provide coverage of Exchange tasks including topics like

• Reporting on distribution group membership

• Adding members to a distribution group from an external file

• Allowing managers to modify group permissions

• Removing disabled users from distribution groups

• Working with distribution group naming policies

• Working with distribution group membership approval

• Creating address lists

• Exporting address list membership to a CSV/XML file

• Types of Distribution Groups