Interesting discovery today.
With Query based Distribution Groups in Exchange 2003, if you send an email to a QDG that you are a member of, you get a copy of the message
With Dynamic Distributions Groups in Exchange 2007 it would seem that is NO longer that case. If you are a member of a DDG you DONT get a copy. Now I have only tested this Custom DDGs so any reader out there let me know if you are seeing this too?
Oh boy these are fun! So I want DDGs for each Mailbox server and for each database on that server so:
DDG-Server; DDG-MBX01-Server etc, etc
So server DDG is easy:
New-DynamicDistributionGroup -alias “DDG-MBX01” -name “DDG MBX01” -recipientfilter {ServerName -eq “MBX01”} -org exchorg.local/MyOU/pf
So to see the membership you can run this:
$DDG = Get-DynamicDistributionGroup -Identity “DDG-MBX01”
Get-Recipient -Filter $DDG.RecipientFilter
Nice. So the fun comes when you want to do the same but for mailbox store. Bharat up on the Exchangepedia pointed me to this: http://exchangepedia.com/blog/2007/01/adventures-with-opath-some-annoyances.html
Not this works to a degree:
New-DynamicDistributionGroup “MBX01-MBX01” –organizationalUnit “exchorg.local/MyOU/pf” -RecipientFilter {database -eq “CN=MBX01-MBX01,CN=SG01-MBX01,CN=InformationStore,CN=MBX01,CN=Servers,CN=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT),CN=Administrative Groups,CN=Exch,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=ExchOrg,DC=local”}
You can email it and it works, but you can’t get the membership. You get this error:
[PS] C:ps>$DDG = Get-DynamicDistributionGroup -Identity “BW MS MBX01-MBX01”
[PS] C:ps>Get-Recipient -Filter $DDG.RecipientFilter
Get-Recipient : Cannot bind parameter ‘Filter’ to the target. Exception setting “Filter”: “Cannot convert value “MBX01SG01-MBX01MBX01-MBX01” to type “Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Directory.ADObjectId”. Error: “The string “MBX01SG01-MBX01MBX01-MBX01″ does not represent a valid distinguished name.””
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+ Get-Recipient -Filter <<<< $DDG.RecipientFilter
So now I need to findout how to view the member of these DDGs without reverting the LDP
Alistair sent me this … interesting
Source: http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2007/05/08/rim-to-offer-visual-studio-plug-in and http://www.rim.com/news/press/2007/pr-07_05_2007-01.shtml
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The BlackBerry Plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio will leverage the BlackBerry® Mobile Data System (BlackBerry® MDS) to simplify wireless application development, deployment and management for the enterprise.
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