Sending Mail to AD Exchange Enabled Groups

[John C. Welch]

On 4/29/08 12:26 AM, "Mike Friedman" <mgf at mgfconsulting.net> wrote:

>> 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.

I believe it's annoying them ;-) However, if they're using Exchange with
just Apple's software, they could replace it with almost any backend and
never notice.

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