I have a quick question about dyanmic distribution groups in Exchange 2007 (new to the concept) It is my understanding that a dynamic distribution group would work in the fashion that if someone sent an e-mail to sales@company.com everyone in the AD that is a member of 'Sales Department' would receive the e-mail message (assuming the dist group is setup to send mail to all members of that dept). a) Is my understanding correct ? b) Does the e-mail have a shared entity in that if X user replied/read the e-mail it would show as being read/replied to in all user mailboxes ? c) Assuming B is how things work, if clients are using Outlook 2007 would the e-mail state who replied to the e-mail message?

A. yes, if you've defined the group correctly B. No, X user would have to reply all. The message is split up an delivered individually to each user in the group (or at least a pointer to that message if the users are in the same SG) C. No; again once an email is delivered to a group its treated as a normal email within outlook, other than the breadth of the 'reply all' function

Hrm, Okay ... well basically what I'm looking to do if possible is to have something like the following Inbox (users personal mail folder) -Sales Questions (public mail folder, accessable/visible to all users in Sales Team) all e-mail going to sales@company.com would end up here. (shown as a sub-folder to inbox) -Accounting (public mail folder, accesable/visible to all users in Accounting Dep) all e-mail going to accounting@company.com would go here. (shown as a sub-folder to inbox) -Dealer Mail (public mail folder, accessable/visible to all users in the Sales Management) all e-mail going to dealermail@company.com would go here. (shown as a sub-folder to inbox) etc. ... (you get the idea) Is something like this possible ?, if so what Exchange feature sets should I be looking into to configure this ?

I would use public folders for that. Its up to you whether or not to maintain per user read info, and if someone flags/colors it, its seen by everyone. Your users will have to be taught how to use public folders though.