Re: Identify which users are missing from a group

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Date: 09/14/04 

Date: 14 Sep 2004 11:54:10 GMT

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:57:06 -0400, Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP] <cwshultz@mvps.org>
wrote:
> Frank,
>
> Glad that you figured out a way. You are right, it does not sound so
> pretty! But, who cares; it worked!
>
> A note about Universal Groups: you do not want to make the individual user
> account objects a direct member of the Universal Group. So, if you have 300
> user account objects you do not want to have 300 individual user account
> objects as members of that Universal Group. You want to populate the
> Universal Groups with other groups. So, say that you have a Distribution
> Group called 'Managers' and say that you have a Distribution Group called
> 'Assistants' ( or take your pick - '2nd Floor Employees' and '3rd Floor
> Employees' would work as well ). Each and every one of those 300 user
> accounts would be a member of one or the either. You would want to nest both
> the Managers and the Assistants Distribution Groups as members of the
> Universal Group.
>
> Does this make any sense?

this is the way i have created distro lists also. (i can't believe it..before
i arrived, there were NO distro lists. if anyone wanted to send a mail,
they added all 300-odd e-mail addresses to an e-mail...urgh..talk about
ugly!)

the way i did it was as follows:

1. group all users into OUs (finance, it, accounts, finman...etc)
2. then created distro mailing lists (finance, it, accounts, finman..etc) and added
all the members of those OUs into the relative mailing distro groups.
3. i then created an allstaff mail distro list and added all the OU groups into it.

so if i delete one user from say, the finance group, he will be deleted from the
finance distro list, and by default, also from the allstaff distro list.

i think this is the way cary has explained it. all easy enough to do...unfortunately
it was manual also....

hth,
bernard 

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