Why does a "1" get appended to distribution lists when running Group Provision Wizard? (4344879)

After running the Group Provision Wizard in Notes Migrator for Exchange, a 1 gets appended to the distribution lists in Active Directory.

For Example:

GroupName@domain.com -->GroupName1@domain.com

1 can be appended to distribution lists if the deletion of the contact object in Active Directory and the subsequent creation of the Distribution List object happens without allowing replication to take place between the events.

By design, Notes Migrator for Exchange does not take into account replication delays, in some environments the default setting may not provide an adequate wait time for replication to occur before creating the Distribution Lists.

Try adding the following INI setting.

[ActiveDirectory]
CreateGroupDelay=<###> (in seconds)
Type: integer. Optional. Default: 0 New in ver 4.1.8

Determines the number of seconds that the Data Migration Wizard, when group provisioning, will wait after deleting a contact (to make way for a group) before
creating a distribution group in AD. You may want to set this value to something in the range of 30 to 300 seconds if your environment experiences AD replication delays.

For example:
CreateGroupDelay=60
If you experience no such delays, you may leave the parameter set to its default of 0 seconds (no delay).

This setting is designed to help alleviate the replication issue, by waiting ## seconds after deletion of the contact object before creating the group.

There is an issue with Exchange if the AD object "mail" attribute does not match the Exchange object "Primary SMTP" (reply to) attribute. For some reason, the distribution groups may be created with these two values different.

If the AD attribute has the target domain, and the Exchange attribute has the source. This causes errors with the way the Outlook Address Book is generated, and keeps the groups from showing in the GAL to users in caching mode of outlook.