Managing Distribution List using Shell Command

This post contains the information on how to manage distribution list in Exchange server 2010. In exchange server 2010, only the universal distribution or the security group can be mail enabled. No other scopes like Local or Global Distribution Groups are supported in Exchange Server 2010. Below are the distribution groups that can be created

• Mail enabled Universal Distribution Group
• Mail enabled universal Security Group
• Dynamic Distribution Group

Now we will have a look at some of the topics related to managing distribution list in exchange server 2010.

[important title ="How to create a Distribution Group in Exchange Server 2010"]

New-DistributionGroup -Name “Name of the Distribution Group” -OrganizationalUnit “DomainName.Com/Exchange Distribution Lists” -SAMAccountName “DIstributionGroupAlias” -Type “Distribution” [/important]

[important title ="How to add owner to a distribution group"]

Set-Group -Identity “DL Group Name” -ManagedBy “Domain Name\UserName” [/important]

[important title ="How to add Permission to distribution group for Owner"]

After adding Managedby user on a distribution group, better to give read and write access permission for Owner

Add-ADPermission -Identity “DL Group Name” -User “DomainName\user” -AccessRights ReadProperty, WriteProperty -Properties ‘Member’ [/important]

[important title ="How to change the owner of a distribution group"]

Set-DistributionGroup -Identity “DL Group Name” -ManagedBy “DomainName\NewOwnerUser”

Add-ADPermission -Identity “DL Group Name” -User “DomainName\NewOwnerUser” -AccessRights ReadProperty, WriteProperty -Properties ‘Member’ [/important]

[important title ="How to add a second or additional owner for a distribution group"]

Giving read and write access permission at active directory level will allow the other user to function as a co owner for a Distribution Group

Set-DistributionGroup -ManagedBy ‘New Onwer Name’,'Old Owner Name’ -Identity ‘Distribution Group Name’

Add-ADPermission -Identity “DL Group Name” -User “DomainName\SecondOwner” -AccessRights ReadProperty, WriteProperty -Properties ‘Member’ [/important]

[important title ="How to remove additional owner from a distribution group"]

Remove-ADPermission -Identity “DL Group Name” -User ” DomainName\SecondOwner ” -AccessRights ReadProperty, WriteProperty -Properties ‘Member’ [/important]

[important title ="How to rename a Display name and Alias Name for a Distribution Group"]Set-DistributionGroup -Identity ‘Distribution Group Name’ -DisplayName ‘Enter New Name’ -Alias “New_Alias” [/important]

[important title ="How to export the members list from a Distribution Group"]

Get-DistributionGroupMember -Identity ‘Distribution Group Name” | FL Name [/important]

[important title ="How to add a New Member to the distribution Group"]

Add-DistributionGroupMember -Identity “Distribution Group Name” -Member “UserName’ [/important]

[important title ="How to disable or remove a Distribution Group"]

Disable-DistributionGroup -Identity “Distribution Group Name”

Remove-DistributionGroup -Identity “Distribution Group Name” [/important]

[important title ="How to mail enable or mail disable a security group"]

If we have an active directory security group available and if we want to mail enable that security group, we can use the below shell command and email address will be created for that security group

Enable-DistributionGroup –Identity “DL Display Name”

Disable-DistributionGroup –Identity “DL Display Name” [/important]

[important title ="How to allow external users to send email to the distribution list"]

Set-DistributionGroup -Identity ‘Distribution Group Name’ -RequireSenderAuthenticationEnabled $True [/important]

[important title ="How to allow owners to approve or restrict member to join or to leave a Distribution Group"]

Set-DistributionGroup -MemberJoinRestriction ‘ApprovalRequired’ -MemberDepartRestriction ‘Closed’ -Identity ‘Distribution Group Name’ [/important]

[important title ="How to allow only few users to send email to distribution list"]

Set-DistributionGroup -AcceptMessagesOnlyFromSendersOrMembers ‘User Name 1’,’User Name 2′ -RequireSenderAuthenticationEnabled $True -Identity ‘Distribution Group Name’ [/important]

[important title ="How to restrict few users to send email to distribution list"]

Set-DistributionGroup -AcceptMessagesOnlyFromSendersOrMembers “All Users” -RequireSenderAuthenticationEnabled $True -Identity ‘Distribution Group Name’ -RejectMessagesFromSendersOrMembers ‘User Name 1’,’User Name 2′ [/important]

[important title ="How to set a Message Moderator to allow emails and to bypass approval from few users"]

Set-DistributionGroup -ModerationEnabled $true -ModeratedBy ‘Moderator User Name’ -BypassModerationFromSendersOrMembers ‘User don’t require approval’ -Identity ‘Distribution Group Name’ [/important]

[important title ="How to hide a distribution group from Gloabll Address List"]

Set-DistributionGroup -Identity ‘Distribution Group Name’ -HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled $true[/important]

[important title ="How to add additional email address to a distribution list"]

Set-DistributionGroup -Identity ‘Distribution Group Name’ -EmailAddresses ‘SMTP:existingemailaddress’,'smtp:Newemailaddress’ [/important]

[important title ="How to create a dynamic distribution list"]

New-DynamicDistributionGroup -Name “Name of DDG” -Alias “Alias_Name” -IncludedRecipients “MailboxUsers,MailContacts” -OrganizationalUnit “DomainName.com/Users” -ConditionalDepartment “DepartmentName1″,”DepartmentName2″ -RecipientContainer “DomainName.com” [/important]

If you are having any issue on running the above shell command or any other management task using shell command to be included, kindly leave your comments