Establishing Email Address on Group

Using Softerra Adaxes, you can designate Active Directory groups as Exchange distribution lists. This allows sending e-mail to all group members.

To establish e-mail addresses on groups you need to have the 'Write Exchange Attributes' permission. This permission is granted by the built-in 'Exchange Recipient Manager' Security Role.

To establish external e-mail addresses for Active Directory groups:

Using Adaxes Administration Console

Launch the Adaxes Administration Console.
In the Console Tree, expand your service node (the icon represents service nodes).
Expand Active Directory / <domain>.

Select the groups, for which you want to establish e-mail addresses, right-click, point to Exchange Tasks, and click Establish E-mail Address on Groups.

	Tip
	If the Exchange Tasks submenu is not available, it means that Microsoft Exchange is not installed in the AD domain, where the selected groups are located.

	Tip
	The Establish E-mail Address on Group command is not available, when the selected group already has an external email address. For multiple selections this command is always available, however, e-mail address will not be established for groups that already have an external email address.

	Tip
	E-mail address can be established for Universal Security and Universal Distribution groups only.

In the Establish E-mail Address dialog that opens, specify an alias for the selected groups. For multiple selection, use value references to specify a unique alias for each group.

Tip

A value reference is a pattern of text that contains the name of the property it refers to. These patterns are replaced with the property values of each group. So, each group will get an alias composed from its own property values. For example, you can enter the following pattern: %fullname%. This pattern will be replaced with the values of the Group Name property of each group. If the resulting value contains invalid characters, these characters will be removed. You can enter value references manually or click the

button to launch the Insert Value Reference Dialog.

	Tip
	The default alias value is determined by Property Patterns. To set another default value for Exchange aliases, you need to configure the corresponding Property Pattern.

Select the associated Exchange Administrative Group. Click OK.
The results of the e-mail address establishing will be displayed. Click Close.

Using Adaxes Web Interface

Log in to the Adaxes Web Interface.
Click the Browsing tab in the top navigational menu.
Click the domain that contains groups, for which you want to establish an e-mail address, and then select their location.
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Click Browse above the list of managed domains and select the container in which the groups you need are located.

In the list of AD objects, check the groups you need, click Exchange Tasks in the On Selection menu and select the Establish E-mail Address on Group command.

	Tip
	If the Exchange Tasks submenu is not available, it means that Microsoft Exchange is not installed in the AD domain, where the selected groups are located.

	Tip
	The Establish E-mail Address on Groups command is not available, when the selected group already has an external email address. For multiple selections this command is always available, however, e-mail addresses will not be established for groups that already have an external email address.

	Tip
	E-mail address can be established for Universal Security and Universal Distribution groups only.

At the Establish E-mail Address page that opens, specify an alias for selected groups. For multiple selections, use value references to specify a unique alias for each group.

Tip

	Tip
	The default alias value is determined by Property Patterns. To set another default value for Exchange aliases, you need to configure the corresponding Property Pattern.

Select the associated Exchange administrative group. Click Save.
The results of the e-mail address establishing will be displayed. Click OK.

Establishing Email Address on Group

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