New Distribution Group web action

Default OU for new object creation

Specify default OU for new object creation.

Options Label

Options

These settings are deprecated. Please use the settings in the Other Attributes section described below.

Alias generation rule

SamAccountName generation rule

Primary SMTP generation rule

For information about these settings, please refer to the User Name Generation rules description in the Active Directory extension.

Default UPN suffix

The default value is Use Web Query Default Domain. Usually, this is the Default Active Directory domain that is defined in the Active Directory extension.

Validate suffix with Office 365

Used for hybrid Exchange environments only. When set to Yes, the action will not allow a suffix that isn't listed as a valid domain for the Office 365 tenant. 

Also validate email uniqueness in the cloud

Specify if email uniqueness should be also validated in the cloud.

More Options

Override Active Directory domains

Show Ticket input field

Show Comment input field

For information on these settings, please refer to the More Options description in the New User web action.

User can set additional owners

Specify if the user can set additional owners during group creation.

Require additional owners

Specify if additional owners are required.

Create groups using Active Directory

Group name prefix

Enforce Group name prefix

Set creator as manager

Set this setting to No if you don't need the distribution group creator will be the manager of this group.

The default value is Yes.

User can set OU

Set this setting to No if you need to restrict setting OU during distribution group creation.

The default value is Yes.

User can set group type

Set this setting to No if you need to restrict changing the group type during distribution group creation.

The default value is Yes.

Delay sync attribute flag

If the distribution group type is set to Office 365 (Exchange Remote), use this setting to configure Azure AD Connect and Cayosoft Administrator service to delay the synchronization of newly created distribution groups until they can be seen properly by Azure AD Connect.

For the distribution group type, see the setting described below.

For more information about configuration, please see KB20160209-1.

Character Restrictions

Prohibited or Allowable

Select whether prohibited or allowed the symbols specified in the settings below.

The default value is Prohibited.

Symbols in Name 

Symbols in Alias

Symbols in Primary SMTP prefix

Enter prohibited symbols without spaces or if using the Allowable option, enter a regular expression enclosed in single quote marks.

By default, the prohibited symbols are '@' and '–'.

Wizard Defaults

Enable automatic email address updates by address policy

If the Exchange address policy is applied, it generates email addresses, mail, and other proxy addresses automatically. The custom-generated values that are configured in Administrator Service will be ignored.

For more information, please see this article: Email address policies in Exchange Server | Microsoft Learn.

Membership Restrictions

Enable membership restrictions

Maximum number of group members

Allowed these group members types

Other Attributes

If you use Active Directory extension attributes to store additional information for groups, you could select these attributes and map them to Other Attributes.

To set labels or default values for these attributes, please use Attribute Policies.

Virtual Attributes

Virtual Attribute 1 - Virtual Attribute 25

Virtual Attributes allow extending the attribute list for groups in Active Directory without extending the Active Directory schema.

Select the virtual attributes from the list and map them to Virtual Attribute 1 - Virtual Attribute 25.

For more details, please see Configuring Virtual Attributes article.

Custom Generation Tokens

Custom generation tokens allow using the values of the attributes of the user who is running the action (initiator) in the Attribute Policies that are applied to the creation of Active Directory and Office 365 objects.  Custom generation tokens should be set in the corresponding Web Action configuration form.

Example: 

{@{'InitiatorDepartment'=GetInitiatorProperty('department')}}

After that InitiatorDepartment token can be used in Attribute Policy that is applied to this Web Action.

For details see this KB article: https://cayosoft.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043017952

1. Validate suffix with Office 365, Create groups using Active Directory, Other Attributes settings are added.
2. Group Type setting is removed.

Custom Generation Tokens setting is added.

Stored Virtual Attributes for Active Directory distribution groups are introduced in the product.