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Microsoft Exchange 2010 PowerShell Cookbook

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Microsoft Exchange 2010 PowerShell Cookbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Microsoft Exchange 2010 PowerShell Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Previewing dynamic distribution group membership


The concept of the dynamic distribution group was introduced with the initial release of Exchange 2007 and included a new way to create and manage distribution groups. Unlike regular distribution groups whose members are statically defined, a dynamic distribution group determines its members based on a recipient filter. These recipient filters can be very complex, or they can be based on simple conditions, such as including all the users with a common value set for their Company or Department attributes in Active Directory. Since these dynamic groups are based on a query, they do not actually contain group members and if you want to preview the results of the groups query in the shell you need to use a series of commands. In this recipe, we'll take a look at how to view the membership of dynamic distribution groups in the Exchange Management Shell.

How to do it...

Imagine that we have a dynamic distribution group named Legal that includes all...