Schedule tab
The Schedule tab displays Group Family schedule-related information, and allows you to view or modify scheduling settings.
The tab displays the following information:
- Schedule The Group Family is scheduled to run as indicated by this statement.
- Run on this server The Administration Service that performs all operations needed to run the Group Family.
- Last run time The date and time the Group Family was last run.
- Next run time The date and time that the Group Family is next scheduled to run.
You can use the Configure button to examine the Group Family schedule in more detail, and make changes to the schedule as needed.
Clicking Configure displays the Group Family Scheduling page, similar to that of the New Group Family wizard discussed earlier in this chapter (see the Group Family scheduling section). View or modify the schedule settings on that page, and click the Finish button to commit your changes to the Properties dialog box. The changes are applied when you click the OK or Apply button, and can be discarded by clicking Cancel.
Action Summary tab
The Action Summary tab displays quantitative information about the Group Family run.
Use the Action Summary tab to see the following information about the last run of the Group Family:
- Last run started The date and time the run was started.
- Last run finished The date and time the run was finished.
- Managed objects The number of objects found in the Group Family scope.
- Valid groupings The number of groupings calculated during the run.
- Failed groupings The number of groupings the Group Family failed to identify due to invalid combinations of group-by property values. An example of an invalid combination occurs when values for one or more properties are missing from the combination.
- Groups created The number of groups the Group Family created during the run.
- Groups updated The number of groups for which the Group Family updated the membership lists during the run.
- Updates in group memberships The number of objects the Group Family added or removed from groups during the run.
- Errors The number of error encountered during the run.
To examine this information in more detail, click the View Log button.
Action summary log
Clicking the View Log button displays a log containing summary information about the last run of the Group Family. The log includes descriptions of the error situations, if any occurred during the run, and summarizes the quantitative results of the run, such as the number of updated groups, the number of created groups, and the number of objects that have group memberships changed.
The log can be divided into three sections: Prolog, Error List, and Epilog. The Prolog and Epilog sections are always present in the log, whereas the Error List section only appears if any errors or warnings occurred during the run.
The Prolog section provides the following information:
- The date and time the run was started
- The number of managed objects found in the Group Family scope
- The total amount of groupings found by analyzing the group-by properties
The Epilog section provides the following information:
- The number of errors, if any occurred
- The number of invalid combinations of group-by property values, if any detected
- The number of groups the Group Family created during the run
- The number of groups the Group Family updated during the run
The Error List section provides information about all errors and warnings the Group Family encountered during the run.
Steps for administering a Group Family
This topic covers some task-specific procedures that you can use to change configuration and properties of an existing Group Family.
To open the property sheet for a Group Family
- Right-click the Group Family configuration storage group, and then click Properties.
To view or modify grouping rules
- Open the property sheet for the Group Family (see instructions earlier in this topic).
- Click the Groupings tab, and then click Configure.
- Follow Steps 5 through 7 of the procedure for creating a Group Family (see Steps for creating a Group Family).
- On the Group-by Properties page, click Finish.
- Click OK to close the property sheet.
To view or modify group creation-related rules
- Open the property sheet for the Group Family (see instructions earlier in this topic).
- Click the Controlled Groups tab, and then click Manage Rules.
- Follow Steps 9 through 12 of the procedure for creating a Group Family (see Steps for creating a Group Family).
- On the Exchange-related Settings page, click Finish.
- Click OK to close the property sheet.
To manually add a group to a Group Family
- Open the property sheet for the Group Family (see instructions earlier in this topic).
- Click the Controlled Groups tab, and then click Capture Groups.
- In the Capture Groups window, click Add.
- In the Assign Group to Grouping dialog box, do the following, and then click OK:
- Click Select, and then select the group you want to add.
- In Group-by property, type a value of the group-by property. If multiple group-by properties are defined, type a value for each, so as to determine the grouping to which you want the group to be assigned.
- Click OK to close the Capture Groups window.
- Click OK to close the property sheet.
To remove a group from a group family
- Open the property sheet for the Group Family (see instructions earlier in this topic).
- Click the Controlled Groups tab, and then click Capture Groups.
- In the Capture Groups window, select the group you want to remove from the Group Family, click Remove, and then click OK.
- Click OK to close the property sheet.
To schedule a Group Family update
- Open the property sheet for the Group Family (see instructions earlier in this topic).
- Click the Schedule tab, and then click Configure.
- On the Group Family Scheduling page, do the following, and then click Finish:
- Select Schedule Group Family to run, and then set the appropriate date, time, and frequency of Group Family update.
- If you also want the Group Family to run one time immediately after you close the property sheet, select Run Group Family once after completing this page.
- From the Run on this server list, select the Administration Service you want to run the Group Family.
- Click OK to close the property sheet.
To view results of a Group Family update
- Open the property sheet for the Group Family (see instructions earlier in this topic).
- Click the Action Summary tab, and then click View Log.
To delete a Group Family
- Right-click the Group Family configuration storage group, and then click Delete.
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NOTE: Deleting a Group Family only deletes the configuration storage group of the Group Family. This operation does not delete the controlled groups of the Group Family. Later, you can configure another Group Family to take control of those groups. |