On-prem Exchange Dynamic List

Joey

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On-prem Exchange Dynamic List

If you have a medium to large AD environment with on-prem Exchange servers, chances are that you need to mess with dynamic distribution lists. Here I will show you how to make one excluding all disabled users and more.

To Create a Dynamic Distro List:

Example:

New-DynamicDistributionGroup -Name "Washington Management Team" -RecipientFilter "(RecipientTypeDetails -eq 'UserMailbox') -and (Title -like 'Director*' -or Title -like 'Manager*') -and (StateOrProvince -eq 'WA')" -RecipientContainer "North America"



To Update a Dynamic Distro List:

Example:

Set-DynamicDistributionGroup -identity “housewide” -RecipientFilter ""

RecipientFilter Examples:

  1. RecipientType -eq 'UserMailbox'
  2. MemberOfGroup -eq 'CN=GroupName,OU=OUName,OU=Test,DC=ZengroTrust,DC=com'
  3. -not(MemberOfGroup -eq 'CN=GroupName,OU=OUName,OU=Test,DC=ZengroTrust,DC=com')
  4. UserAccountControl -ne 'AccountDisabled, NormalAccount'

To update a list called TestDL to include all user mailboxes that are not in TestGroup and enabled:

Set-DynamicDistributionGroup -identity “TestDL” 
-RecipientFilter "((RecipientType -eq 'UserMailbox') 
-or (RecipientType -eq 'MailUser')) 
-and (-not(MemberOfGroup -eq 'CN=TestGroup,OU=TestOU,DC=ZengroTrust,DC=com')) 
-and (UserAccountControl -ne 'AccountDisabled, NormalAccount')"