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How to assign ownership rights on Distribution Group

Posted by Usman under Exchange Management Shell

You can use following cmdlet to assign ownership rights on distribution groups.

Add-AdPermission -identity “Group Name” -User “User’s SamAccountname” -AccessRights WriteProperty -Properties “Member”

-identity : Group display name instead of email id of group
-User : User’s samaccount name

Example :

Add-AdPermission -identity “New Group” -User “Ali” -AccessRights WriteProperty -Properties “Member”

In above example , User Ali will get full rights to add/remove members from distribution through Global Address Book.

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