Domain Groups in SharePoint 2010

Question

We have several domain groups that are not showing up in our SharePoint 2010 environment. The common thread seems to be that domain groups without an e-mail address assigned to the group are the ones that don't show up in SharePoint. Domain groups that do have an e-mail address assigned to the group appear in the lookup lists and are validated successfully. However, if the domain group does not have an e-mail address assigned the domain group does not appear in the lookup lists and the validation fails.

Has anyone else experienced this issue? Is there a way to get past this?

Answer 1

In general, security groups are used for permissions, but distributions are not. You can overcome this by mail-enabling security groups. In this manner, they can be used both for permissions and audiences. PLUS for an Exchange admin, you don't have the hassle of dealing with multiple groups with the same members for the two purposes.