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- OIT's Messaging and Collaboration team (M&C) was delegated ADMIN privileges to the Grouper Stem containing all the mail distribution lists
- For a new mail distribution list request, M&C creates the group in Grouper under that stem, sets it of type "IncludeExclude", creates the "_GROUP-ADMINS" that would manage the distribution list and then delegate the management of the group to the requester(s). Most of this work is automated using scripts developed for this purpose.
- The connector script that we developed, acts on changes and updates to this stem and performs the necessary operations in AD on the overall group. The connector script handles the group creation in AD, mail-enabling the group at creation and membership and group updates.
- The connector script was originally developed in Power Shell and runs as a windows service (daemon) on a host connected to the AD. We plan on migrating the code to a better programming language
Final Thoughts
- We are more than happy to share our code, scripts and experience with this effort. Our contact information is provided in the presentation slides