Sending Mail to AD Exchange Enabled Groups

[Mike Friedman]

On Apr 28, 2008, at 8:32 PM, John C. Welch wrote:

> On 4/28/08 9:13 PM, "Mike Friedman" <mgf at mgfconsulting.net> wrote:
>
>>>> I have a client who is using Exchange and AD as their backend. They
>>>> want to be able to send email to Exchange enabled groups from their
>>>> Macs, but cannot. Has anyone else run into this?
>>>
>>> Do you mean distribution groups?
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Also, any suggestions for best/most compatible/least irritating
>>>> client
>>>> for use with Exchange? Apple Mail's support isn't all that great
>>>> (they
>>>> are running into problems with email not updating). Is Entourage  
>>>> the
>>>> way to go?
>>>
>>> Pretty much. E'rage 2008 is the best native Exchange client you'll
>>> find on
>>> the Mac.
>>
>> Yes, I mean to distribution groups. The client claims that they do a
>> lookup in address book, send the email and it never goes anywhere. I
>> haven't seen this myself, but I haven't tested it extensively.  It's
>> one of these situations where the real consultant brought me in
>> because he doesn't know much about the Mac, and kind of dumped this  
>> on
>> me. Frankly, I wouldn't have chosen Exchange for a small mostly Mac
>> office, but that horse has left the stable.
>
> There's a LOT of variables in using AB with Active Directory. For  
> one, do
> they have Active Directory in the contact paths in Directory  
> Utility? Do
> they have the proper searchbase? Active Directory LDAP lookups tend to
> require authentication, and in AB, you tend to have to do the kerberos
> principal-style user names.
>
> If you can search the GAL, then the distribution lists should show  
> up. You
> can't edit or create them, but you can use them.
>
> As far as exchange goes, other than costs, the biggest problem tends  
> to be
> that too many exchange administrators don't know a damned thing  
> about email.
>
> Oh, is this exchange 2003 or 2008?

>
>
It's 2003. They can do the lookups on the GAL (authenticated). Sadly,  
the reason that exchange was chosen was because of cost (low because  
they are a charity and got a license for next to nothing).

As far as I remember, it's in the contact path in directory util, but  
that is something to check, thanks. I like to think that I'm fairly  
well versed in both worlds, but this has really been stumping me and  
annoying the client.


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