Hello All, I was trying to import new Distribution group from my Active Directory but I was unable to do that. On investigating I found out that it was impossible as I was not using the LDAP Query for importing Group viz. located at "Shared Services Administration: SSP > User Profile and Properties > Manage Connections" Edit connection and you can see the configuration for same. I am using default configuration viz. User Filter : (&(objectCategory=Person)(objectClass=User)) By this it imports all new Users added to system. I am looking for answer of two questions : 1) How it is possible that it has existing distribution list and not newly added distribution list. ( I have crawl schedule every day) 2) How can we automate the task of importing newly distriubution list as well as users in one User Filter ( LDAP Query ) ? Thanks in advance. SP Learner

Hi, If you want to import AD distribution groups or users into your SSP, you can use the following user filter to import them into your SSP. (|(objectCategory=Person)(objectClass=User)( objectClass=Group)) If you want to find all users or groups objects created after a specified date (01/01/2010), use the following filter. (&(|(objectcategory=person)(objectclass=user)(objectclass=group))(whencreated>=100101000000Z)) For more information about LDAP syntax, please refer to the following articles: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc961564.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996205(EXCHG.65).aspx http://www.rlmueller.net/ADOSearchTips.htm Hope this is helpful to you. Rock WangRock Wang MSFT

Thanks Rock wang for you reply I tried few things but concluded one thing that without doing much modification one can easily import Security Group. And my network admin was fine with creation of Security group which I wanted so I hadn't looked further on this. But appreciated your reply. Thanks, SP Learner