Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Changes to the distribution list membership cannot be saved" error message when you try to remove members from an Exchange Server 2010 distribution!!!

If you are un-able to modify the membership for DL’s you own after migration to Exchange 2010 couple things you will need to do to get this working.

here is the message , you might be getting when you try to group membership within outlook.

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Issue: Users no longer able to modify Distribution groups they own ( they are specified as the owner of the problem DL) , trying to add , remove users into member list within outlook generating above errors

Log on to your E210 Server , open EMS

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New-RoleGroup DistributionGroupManagement -Roles "Distribution Groups"

 

Add-RoleGroupMember DistributionGroupManagement -Member dedealoc

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* In my case I have converted the existed DL to “Mail Universal Distribution Group *

Related KB

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/982349

 

Respectfully,
Oz Casey, Dedeal ( MVP north America)
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