How to Create a New Distribution Group in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Using Exchange Management Shell

How to create a new Distribution Group in Microsoft Exchange 2010 Using Exchange Management Shell

CHUONG K. NGUYEN – BSc., MCSEx2, MCSAx2, MCP, MCTS, MCITP, CCNA

1/ Create the new Distribution Group called MyDG

New-DistributionGroup –Name “MyDG” –OrganizationalUnit “domain.local/MyOU” –SamAccountName “MyDG” –Type “Distribution”

2/ Disble Sender Authentication

By default, the Distribution Group reqires that external senders authenticate first before sending email. We need to disable this so that Internet senders can send email to the distribution group.

Set-DistributionGroup -Identity “MyDG” -RequireSenderAuthenticationEnabled $false

3/ Disable Email Address Policy

Set-DistributionGroup -Identity “MyDG” -EmailAddressPolicyEnabled $false

4/ Change the email address for the distribution group

Set-DistributionGroup -Identity “MyDG” -PrimarySmtpAddress external@dalaris.com

5/ Add member(s) to the distribution group

Add-DistributionGroupMember -Identity “MyDG” -Member chuongn@dalaris.com