Creating Distribution Groups

[BassTech]

We are currently in the process of migrating our E-Mail from MS Exchange 2007 > Gmail. In Exchange 2007 we have Dynamic Distribution Groups set up so for example 'All Year 7' points to the user folder that contains all Year 7 users. This migrates across to Gmail nicely by using GADS to import objectClass=msExchDynamicDistributionList which imports them as 'Groups' on Google.

 

When we install our new servers in the summer (Server 2012 R2) we will not have a new Exchange server, so I'm wondering how to go about setting up distribution lists, can you set-up Dynamic Distribution Lists in Server 2012 or is it and Exchange-only thing? This technet article seems to suggest that you can only do it on Exchange: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb123722(v=exchg.160).aspx unless there's another way around it?