Applies to: Exchange Server 2007
Topic Last Modified: 2007-06-15

Use the Completion page to confirm whether the distribution group was created successfully. Click Finish to complete the New Distribution Group wizard.

A status of Completed indicates that the wizard completed the task successfully. A status of Failed indicates that the task was not completed. If the task fails, review the summary for an explanation, and then click Back to make any configuration changes.

For more information about making configuration changes to a distribution group, see Managing Distribution Groups.

The summary pane lists the following fields.

Management Shell command

This field lists the Exchange Management Shell command that was used to create the distribution group. If the task is successful, this text is displayed as Management Shell command completed. If the task fails, this text is displayed as Management Shell command attempted.

For more information about the New-DistributionGroup cmdlet, see New-DistributionGroup (RTM).

For more information about the Exchange Management Shell, see Using the Exchange Management Shell.

Elapsed Time

This field indicates the amount of time it took for the wizard to complete the task. If the elapsed time is 00:00:00, this indicates that the task took less than 1 second to complete.

Note:
You can press CTRL+C to copy the text in the summary pane to the Clipboard. After the text has been copied to the Clipboard, you can paste it into a document or screen.

Recommended Next Steps

After the distribution group is created, you can add recipients to and remove recipients from the distribution group. For more information, see the following topics:

By default, all new distribution groups require that all senders be authenticated. This prevents external senders from sending messages to distribution groups. This default setting is different from previous versions of Exchange where, by default, new distribution groups accepted messages from all senders. To configure a distribution group to accept messages from all senders in Exchange 2007, you must modify the message delivery restriction settings for that distribution group. For more information about configuring message delivery restrictions, see How to Configure Message Delivery Restrictions.

For More Information

To learn more about distribution groups, see Understanding Recipients.

For more information about managing distribution groups, see Managing Distribution Groups.