Curious what other groups out there have as guidelines and boundaries for DL
creation and controlling DL sprawl? Do you have standards for naming
conventions?
For Example - if a manager wants a DL for his staff of 10, and wants it named
John's Staff do you accommodate or recommend they use a
, 2010 12:05 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: DL Creation Requirements/policy
Curious what other groups out there have as guidelines and boundaries for DL
creation and controlling DL sprawl? Do you have standards for naming
conventions?
For Example - if a manager wants a DL for his staff
-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: DL Creation Requirements/policy
Curious what other groups out there have as guidelines and boundaries for DL
creation and controlling DL sprawl? Do you have standards for naming
conventions?
For Example - if a manager wants a DL for his staff of 10, and wants it named
If it's a legitimate business unit or cross unit team that needs to
communicate then they can have a list. We chat with them first.
We tend to use a specified format.
The use of # as the first character indicates distribution list.
Most are set to not accept email from outside the internal
I've put up a standard for naming. The DG must begin with a 'z', the
(lower case) country code, then a hyphen, then the DG name with no
spaces, then a hyphen, then DL at the end. Thus
Zus-InformationTechnology-DL or Zau-Sales-DL.
This differentiates them from security groups and allows them to
(Trying again because Lryis rejected me)
If it's a legitimate business unit or cross unit team that needs to
communicate then they can have a list. We chat with them first.
We tend to use a specified format.
The use of # as the first character indicates distribution list.
Most are set to not