Hello, We have a scenario where we cannot use powershell into one of our forests, so it possible to use FIM to provision Distribution groups into this forest and mail enable these groups with purely LDAP?? Regards, Rob

Creating Exchange Server mailbox-enabled and mail-enabled objects in Active Directory. Cheers, MarkusMarkus Vilcinskas, Knowledge Engineer, Microsoft Corporation

Thanks, We're using Exchange 2007 and AD 2008 so i'm assuming the same applies to DLs in this version of AD/Exch. As a follow up then, how do you then add them to the GAL without Powershell? Cheers Rob

Well, You can use FIM to set the attributes but the groups will not actually get mail-enabled until you run UpdateRecipeint against them. That is because there is no RUS in Exchange 2007. So, you can have FIM set the attributes but you are going to need to have some method of calling the powershell for update recipient. You can install the Exchange management tools on a server in your other forest and write a powershell script that searches for mailNickname=* and !proxyAddresses=*. For each object in that query, you should call UpdateRecipient for that object. Run the script every 15 minutes or so and it should work. Please let us know how it goes. -Jeremy