At a previous employer a few years ago, all Exchange distribution groups were created such that the first character of the alias (the name you see in Outlook) began with an @ character. The distribution group's email address was often the same name WITHOUT the leading @ character. This convention made it very easy to identify distribution groups from within Outlook.
For instance, we had a distribution group for all developers with the alias @DevelopmentTeam
and the email address DevelopmentTeam@companyxyz.com
.
I'm now working at a different company, and would like to implement the same kind of thing, but I'm being told that Exchange doesn't allow distribution group alias to start with an @ character.
Either I'm not remembering things correctly, I'm being mislead, and I need to know which it is.