Please help! we had our distribution groups separated from our gal by someone who no longer works w/ me. once i upgraded our address lists to OPATH, everything sits in the GAL again. i THINK the person modified the Purportedsearch attribute in ADSI EDIT under CN, Services, MS Exchange, DOMAIN, All global address lists,default global address list. the issue is, i believe exchange 2007 GAL now is using the msExchQueryFilter attribute below: (Alias -ne $null -and (((((ObjectClass -eq 'user' -or ObjectClass -eq 'contact') -or ObjectClass -eq 'msExchSystemMailbox') -or ObjectClass -eq 'msExchDynamicDistributionList') -or ObjectClass -eq 'group') -or ObjectClass -eq 'publicFolder')) i tried to run this in powershell, but am getting an error. Set-GlobalAddressList "Default Global Address List" -RecipientFilter {(Alias -ne $null -and RecipientType -ne 'mailuniversaldistributiongroup' -and (ObjectClass -eq 'user' -or ObjectClass -eq 'Contact' -or ObjectClass -eq 'msExchSystemMailbox' -or ObjectClass -eq 'msExchDynamicDistributionList' -or ObjectClass -eq 'group' -or ObjectClass -eq 'publicFolder'))} does anyone know the proper OPATH filter to apply in ADSIEDIT? i need to exclude distribution lists from the GAL. THANK YOU!

Always post the complete error to which you refer. We don't care to guess what error you might have gotten. Try this: Set-GlobalAddressList "Default Global Address List" -RecipientFilter {(Alias -ne $null -and (ObjectClass -eq 'user' -or ObjectClass -eq 'contact' -or ObjectClass -eq 'msExchSystemMailbox' -or ObjectClass -eq 'publicFolder'))} -Force Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."

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