When I am creating permissions, can I tie outlook groups to Sharepoint groups? I don’t want to maintain group information in two places – one in outlook and other in sharepoint. Makes it pain when people get hired and leave.

Hi, in SharePoint you need so called "Security Groups" of Active Directory. On the other hand, for Outlook you can work with "Distribution Groups" to send e-mails to a group of persons. You have to ensure to use "Security Groups" and enable an e-mail address for these. In this way you should have both, a security group for SharePoint enabled to send e-mails to a group of persons (Distribution Group functionality). Here a link with the difference between both: http://kb.iu.edu/data/ajlt.html Please get in contact with your AD admin to setup these groups properly. Hope this helps, Patrick follow my blog http://patrick.lamber.blogspot.com to get additional tips and information about SharePoint, Project and ASP.NET

Please let me know any links regarding this mapping of groups and how to create the security groups etc ..I am v new to this Outlook concept in sharepoint...

Please note that this is an administrative action and you have to look at Active Directory to create a security group. Here a youtube link on how to create a security group: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRqlp3itpU4 follow my blog http://patrick.lamber.blogspot.com to get additional tips and information about SharePoint, Project and ASP.NET

can I tie outlook groups to Sharepoint groups??? So that I want to administrate at a time...if i delete in outlook it should be deleted from sharepoint group too and if add the member in outlook it shoul be added in sharepoint group too ..instead of double work!

Hi, probably your outlook groups are the Distribution Groups that I described in my first answer. You have to use Security Groups to tie group of users to SharePoint: Distribution Groups are not enough. An active directory administrator should be able to create a security group for you that has e-mail enabled. This is a similar behavior to your Outlook groups. This security group can then be tied to SharePoint groups if you want. best regards, patrick follow my blog http://patrick.lamber.blogspot.com to get additional tips and information about SharePoint, Project and ASP.NET