{"id":24541,"date":"2021-04-17T02:06:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T02:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthewjrodgers.com\/?p=24541"},"modified":"2021-04-17T02:06:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T02:06:18","slug":"microsoft-exchange-server-2016-creating-a-hierarchical-address-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewjrodgers.com\/?p=24541","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Exchange Server 2016: Creating a hierarchical address book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As part of an exercise in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/app.pluralsight.com\/paths\/skills\/designing-and-deploying-microsoft-exchange-server-2016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this<\/a>\u00a0learning path on Pluralsight, I create a hierarchical address book which represents the organizational structure of people in the business. Here is how it was done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Create a new distribution group<\/li><li>Set the group to be hierarchical<\/li><li>Set the distribution group as the hierarchical root address book<\/li><li>Run a script which creates distribution groups representing departments. Then it nests departments as distribution group members of the previously created distribution groups.<\/li><li>Then I set all the newly created distribution groups to be hierarchical<\/li><li>Then I set some seniority indexes on some distribution groups and one member<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"535\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/matthewjrodgers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/sb3sfsrk2f-535x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/matthewjrodgers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/sb3sfsrk2f-535x1024.png 535w, https:\/\/matthewjrodgers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/sb3sfsrk2f-157x300.png 157w, https:\/\/matthewjrodgers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/sb3sfsrk2f-768x1471.png 768w, https:\/\/matthewjrodgers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/sb3sfsrk2f-802x1536.png 802w, https:\/\/matthewjrodgers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/sb3sfsrk2f-209x400.png 209w, https:\/\/matthewjrodgers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/sb3sfsrk2f.png 976w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And that\u2019s it for this post. Thank you for reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of an exercise in\u00a0this\u00a0learning path on Pluralsight, I create a hierarchical address book which represents the organizational structure of people in the business. Here is how it was done. Create a new distribution group Set the group to be hierarchical Set the distribution group as the hierarchical root address book Run a script&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/matthewjrodgers.com\/?p=24541\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft Exchange Server 2016: Creating a hierarchical address book<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,4],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewjrodgers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewjrodgers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewjrodgers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjrodgers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjrodgers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjrodgers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24543,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjrodgers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24541\/revisions\/24543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewjrodgers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjrodgers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjrodgers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}