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The following text is taken from the install document I was sent for Group ID 5.0 Self Service:

2. Add the Expired_ prefix to the group name

Refer to the GroupID Help and the GroupID User Manual for more detail.

If I read this text correctly, installing GroupID 5.0 Self Service will set an expiration date on all distribution lists in the domain, is that correct?  I definitely do NOT want to set an expiration date on all of my groups.  I see that we can configure GroupID to ignore certain OUs, but what if someone creates a DL in a random OU and doesn't tell me about it?  It would be better if GroupID could be configured to expire only the groups in a specific OU or group of OUs.

 To that end, what is the default date assigned to the global expiration policy upon install?  If the default expiration date is set to date of install + default expiration policy date, what date would that be unpon initial install?  I just need to make sure that by installing GroupID my DLs won't all be set to expire in 1 day's time.

 Thanks,

 Chris

Hello Chris,

 When you install GroupID it will set the expiration policy for all groups to "Never Expire" by default.  If you would like to eliminate this function from being used,you can easily exclude all organizationalUnits or specific organizationalUnits from being included in the global expiration policy by following the steps below:

1. After installation, open the GroupID console.

2. Click on the "Configuration" module in the GroupID tree.

3. Double-click on "Modify User Options" to display the Options dialog box. 

4. Click on the "Licensing" link, then click the "Add" button to paste your license number and key.

5. After adding your evaluation license, click the "OK" button twice to close the options dialog box.

6. Click on the "Modify System Configuration" link to display the configuration dialog box.

7. Select the "Group Lifecycle" tab to display the global settings for Expiration Policy.

8. The radio button for Exclude OUs is displayed by default.  Click on the "Modify" button to display the Active Directory tree.

9. Click on the checkbox at the top of the container tree to exclude all of the OUs in the domain from using the Expiration Policy or you can select specific OUs that you would like excluded from the policy.

Please post back with questions you have about the information provided above.  Looking forward to hearing from you soon.