OU Distribution List and Active Directory Security Group Owners may manage the memberships for their groups online. If you are editing the membership of a Distribution list you will use the email address provided to you when the Distribution list was created. If you are editing a security group that is attached to an Organization account, you will use the OUNetID-group security group given to you.
The steps below will outline how to make these changes to these types of groups.
Please note that if you wish to manage your -L lists.ou.edu e-mail account, please see those instructions here.
- To manage your Distribution list or Security Group, please visit http://groups.ou.edu in your internet browser.
- For the User name, enter your OUNetID.
- Please note - only faculty/staff members may log into this site to manage group membership.
- For the Password, enter your OUNetID password.
- After the site loads, you will see a list of all the groups listed in the Global Address Book. To locate your security group or distribution list, click the Magnifying Glass icon.

- Enter the name of your group and click the Magnifying Glass icon again.
- Your group or distribution list should now appear in the results box.
Security group example:

Distribution list example:

- Double-click your group. If you are a listed owner of this group, you will be able to make membership changes to it.
- Click the “membership” tab.

- You may now add and remove users from the members list. Click the plus (+) to Add users, click the minus (-) to remove users.
- To Add a user:
- Click the plus (+) sign.
- Click the Magnifying Glass icon to perform a search in the Global Address List for the user you wish to add. You may search by email address, OUNetID, or name. Please note - try searching for only the last or first name, or formatted "last name, first name".
- When you have located the user, double click their name or select them and then click “add->”.
- Repeat this process until you have selected all of the users you wish to add.
- Once you have selected all the users you wish to add, click the OK button.
- Click Save to update your group membership.
- To Remove a user:
- Click their name in your current user list.
- Once they are selected, click the – button.
- Click Save to update your group membership.
- When you are done making changes to your group, you may click your name in the upper right corner, then select Sign out.