Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: A Beginner s Guide in Visual Studio .NET

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The purpose of the expansion server is to specify which server will expand the membership list of the distribution group, and perform its routing and selection process to send the message to each group member This is both a RAM- and a processor-intensive activity For groups with a small membership of fewer than 50 or 75 members, this is not a big deal and can be performed on any server in the administrative group But if the group contains several hundred or even several thousand members, it might be wise to dedicate a server to this function Expanding even a simple message and then running each user through the routing and selection process, could take hours Dedicating a server to this function, in such a scenario, just makes sense On the Advanced tab, you can specify how delivery reports should be handled and whether out-of-office messages from recipients should be sent to the originator of

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the message Generally, you ll want to leave this check box unselected; but there might be certain kinds of distribution groups, such as time-sensitive messages or mission-critical groups, where having an out-of-office message sent to the originator would be a wise course of action TIP Send your company-wide e-mail messages using the Bcc field instead of the To field If the message is sent using the To field, then anyone can use the Reply To All button and send their response to everyone in the company By using the Bcc field, the originator s name will appear as the sender of the message Therefore, if a user uses the Reply To All button, the message will only come back to the message originator

Address lists are managed in the Exchange Management Console on the Mailbox node under Organization Configuration in the console tree They can be found by selecting the Address List tab in the results pane Address lists are created by using filter rules rules that search Active Directory and find objects that match a predefined set of criteria Once all the objects are accumulated, a list is built and it becomes an address list Figure 3-43 shows the Introduction page of the Edit Address List Wizard when editing the All Users address list You ll notice the recipient filter in Figure 3-43 showing the LDAP filter that the list will return from Active Directory Default lists are provided for All Contacts, All Groups, All Rooms, All Users, and Public Folders Additional rule sets can be created by selecting New Address List in the action pane and following the wizard Interestingly enough, you really don t need a developer to create these rules Exchange asks for the types of recipients and allows you to specify that the recipients belong to a certain company, department, or state/province An address list is another object in the directory, so it will have an Access Control List (ACL) for security purposes This means that you can create an address list, and then specify who can access it by assigning permissions to the list using users and groups in

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Active Directory Some address lists, such as top corporate executives or those who hold sensitive positions, may not want their e-mail addresses available to everyone Use the ACL to limit who can see sensitive address lists By default, the Everyone group is not given any access and the Authenticated Users group is only given List Contents permissions After an address list is created, it will not update immediately If you need it to update immediately, or if you just want to force an address list to update because new users have been added to Active Directory, you can use the Update-EmailAddressPolicy cmdlet within the Exchange Management Shell