First off, if you're going to insist on doing it this way (which I hope you don't) you're going to want to do use the distinguished name of the group: Group Membership > Is Exactly > cn=groupname,ou=OUname,dc=anderson,dc=net.
Groups are calculated entities, and they don't work quite the way that you'd hope. Or that I'd hope. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q304516 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q304516 Better is to use a non-calculated attribute, like one of the ExtensionAttributes. Here's a quick & dirty way using LDIFDE to populate the ExtensionAttribute1. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q237677 If you're running Enterprise, I like to throw people into different mailbox stores & use that too. -----Original Message----- From: Michael Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: Thursday, December 19, 2002 6:49 PM Posted To: MSExchange Mailing List Conversation: Help with creating a GAL Subject: Help with creating a GAL Hello, I admit, I am very new to modifying GALs - but it's an important skill to master, and I have to get this working. Since the Default Global Address List is grabbing everything from Active Directory that has an Exchange Address attached to it (which is not a desired thing), I want to create a more controlled version of the GAL - containing only entries that I dictate. What I *thought* would be the easiest thing - is to create a Group (lets call it "ABC Group") containing only the recipients that I want. So I created ABC Group, and then I added all the Users and Contacts from Active Directory. So now we have a new Universal Distribution Group called "ABC Group" populated with 33 names that I selected from Active Directory. I then went to the Exchange Server, and using Exchange System Manager, I created another Global Address List under the "All Global Address Lists" Tree Item. I called it "ABC Global". Then under Properties, I immediately went to the Advanced Tab since I know precisely the criteria I am interested in querying against. I created, Field: "User -> Group Membership" Condition: "Is (exactly)" Value: "ABC Group" And after doing this, hitting the 'Find Now' button, brings back no results. I checked my typing for accuracy, among several other things. Is there something I am missing? Is there a better way to tackle this task, versus the way I am doing it? Thanks in advance for any information offered on this subject. Mike - _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]