Exchange Distribution Groups Lync 2010

I have a Lync 2010 Front End Server.  Everything is working just how I want it to.  I have it configured not to search through local Outlook contacts and that is working fine.  The one issue that I am seeing is with Distribution Groups.  When I search for Lync users the only users I see are Lync enabled users which is what I want.  However I do see all of the Distribution Groups that are created in Exchange.  How do I stop this from happening. 

Thanks

April 27th, 2012 2:20am

You will want to use Address Book filtering by setting the 0x4000 flag on the groupType AB attribute.  See the following article for more info.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg429711.aspx

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April 27th, 2012 2:46am

Thank you for the reply, would you please give more detail on how to accomplish this. We have been searching for the location of the flag and can't seem to locate it.

Thank You

April 27th, 2012 3:55pm

Use SQL Management Studio to open the AbAttribute table in the rtc database on your SQL server and make the appropriate change to the groupType attribute.

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April 28th, 2012 12:37am

In Office Communications Server 2007 R2, if the parameter PartitionByOU is set to TRUE, then a user search returns only contacts of other users that are members of the same organizational unit (OU) as the user that submitted the search.

Lync Server 2010 adds the attribute msRTCSIP-GroupingID onto user objects. It can be populated with the Globally Unique Identification (GUID) unique to users that need to be able to search for each other. Unless the user is a member of the tagged group, the search results will not display the user contacts.

April 30th, 2012 8:15am

arg180 - there is an updated APSConfig utility that will help you with what you are trying to do.  http://blogs.technet.com/b/drrez/archive/2012/05/09/microsoft-lync-server-2010-resource-kit-tool-absconfig.aspx
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May 10th, 2012 10:40pm

Hi

Could someone explain me how to change GroupType parametr
for specyfic group name in AbAttribute  table? I tried use ABSConfig or
SQL Managment Studio on that table but I don't see there any list of
distributions groups.

Thanks in advance

January 30th, 2013 5:19pm

You can try the below link for creating a dynamic DL with all Lync users in it. http://blog.ucserver.in/2013/07/how-to-create-dynamic-distribution.html

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July 17th, 2013 1:39pm

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