sydney_monty

will do, thanks for your input.....I went with dynamic dist groups with custom attributes.

thanks for the reply. Distribution lists looks to be the preferred approach to me as well. There is a lot to them!

HI, this is my first post in the forum. I have recently installed our first exchange server 2010 into our domain. Its all up and running with autodiscover, OWA and associated services. So far there has been little headaches! I wanted to ask for some advice on entering contacts and address lists. We are a small private school and we have staff and teachers managing address lists and contacts themselves out of many different email clients. With the install of exchange I want to consolidate this into one or two office staff to manage. I was looking for advice from the community about the best way to handle this. Do I go for Public Folder contact lists with permissions or do I add all the external contacts to exchange and use Distribution lists? Any preference the best?