Account Services on the Web

Disabled
If a list is disabled, it is not passed to the various services (e.g., the mail server) that might make use of it. It is a convenient way to temporarily "turn off" a list without removing it (which would lose track of the membership).

Note: not all synchronization targets honor the disabled flag.

Hidden
If a list is hidden, it is not visible (properties and membership) to the public at large.

Public
If a list is public, anyone may add themselves to the membership. Otherwise, only the list's creator and owner(s) may add members.

Expiry Date
If an expires date is set, then on that date the list will be totally deleted. This is normally used when a Net-ID is renamed to forward email from the old Net-ID to the new Net-ID for one year, but it is available for your use.

Superlist (IT staff only)
An experimental option which mirrors the membership of a nested/hierarchical list (a list which has members which are also lists) into a flattened "super" list (a list with only Net-IDs as members).

While this property is primarily intended for use with "Okta" lists, there may be other applications which can not deal with nested lists.

It is non-productive to directly add/delete members to/from a superlist.

This option is currently only available to IT Staff.

Periodic (IT staff only)
Similar to a Superlist, however this is an autolist that runs periodically.

This property is intended for use with papercut lists, but may be used elsewhere.

It is non-productive to directly add/delete members to/from a periodic list.

This option is currently only available to IT Staff.

Nolonger (protected)
If a list is has the Nolonger property, it is being used to route mail to the "Somebody is no longer associated with ISU" mail bouncer.

This option is not currently open for general use.

Sticky (protected)
If a list is sticky, people cannot remove themselves from the membership. Otherwise, anyone can remove themselves from a list. The most common use of sticky is on "/exclude" login access lists.

This option is not currently open for general use.

Institutional
See below

AFS
If a list has the AFS property, it is reflected as a file access list in the AFS file system and may be used on directory Access Control Lists (see the AFS documentation for more information). Note: AFS prefixes the listname with "system:" as seen in this example (Unix/Linux) command: 
   fs setacl /home/ system:listname read
(where listname is the name of your list).

NFS/AD (faculty/staff only)
If a list has the NFS property, it available for use as a file access for departmental NFS file systems This option is also required you are synchronizing the list as a Windows Active Directory Security Group.

Box (protected)
An experimental option to synchronize a list into iastate.box.com. This option is not currently open for general use.

Okta (IT staff only)
If a list has the Okta property, it is reflected in to Okta for use as policy, provisioning and/or app assignment. This option is currently only available to IT Staff.

Mail
If a list has the mail property, it is passed to the mail servers and can thus be used as a mailing list (e.g., listname@iastate.edu). Changes in this property are not immediate, but are done in batches at the top of each hour (except 1am-5am).

Spam
By default, obvious spam (99% likely and above) sent to mail-lists is blocked (discarded). Setting this property raises the blocking cap to 100% (no discarding). This property has no meaning or effect unless the list also has the Mail property.

Mailman
If a list has the Mailman property, mail to it is managed via the Mailman Web Interface. Mailman gives many options in areas like moderation, privacy, and control on who can subscribe and post. Mailman is particularly useful for lists with large numbers of non-IASTATE.EDU members. This property has no meaning or effect unless the list also has the Mail property.

Closed Senders (protected)
This experimental property restricts who may send to this list. This option is not currently open for general use.

Exchange GAL (faculty/staff only)
If a list has the Exchange GAL property, then the name of the list will appear in the Exchange Global Address List (as a contact) so that mail clients such as Office 365 and Outlook can use it. The membership of the list will not be visible in the GAL. This property has no meaning or effect unless the list also has the Mail property. This property can not be applied to a list whose name matches a Net-ID (because it causes a naming conflict in Active Directory).

Windows Active Directory Security Group
If a list has the Windows Active Directory Security Group (aka "Windows") property, it is synchronized into the Enterprise Windows Active Domain as a security group and may be used to control access to resources there. This property can not be applied to a list whose name matches a Net-ID (because it causes a naming conflict in Active Directory).

Mail Enabled
If a list has the Mail Enabled property in addition to the Mail and Windows properties, then the Windows security group will be visible in the GAL and can be the recipient of email. Unlike the GAL property, the membership of the list/group is enumerable in Active Directory. This property restricts the list to have as members only Net-IDs or other Mail Enabled Lists. That is to say, outside mail addresses like "somedude@example.com" are not permitted as members. This property is mutually exclusive with the following properties: Hidden, Mailman, GAL. At this time, it is not possible to specify the "displayName" of the GAL entry via ASW, email your request to exchangerequests@iastate.edu.
Institutional (all are protected)
The Institutional properties indicate the list membership was automatically created from institutional data (e.g. Registrar and HR data) and may not be modified in other ways.

Dept
The membership of a major list is everyone in that department (e.g., Electrical and Computer Engineering). These lists are subdivided into undergrads, grad, faculty, staff, etc.

College
The membership of a college list is everyone in that college. These lists are subdivided into undergrads, grad, faculty, staff, etc. They are further subdivided by whether the student is past, current, or future.

Major
The membership of a major list is everyone with that major (e.g., Computer Engineering). They are further subdivided by whether the student is past, current, or future.

Class
The membership of a class list is everyone in a (particular session of a) class (e.g., Computer Engineering 482, section A, Spring Semester 2020). Unlike the other categories, class lists are not automatically created, but must be requested. Once created, they are automatically maintained and automatically deleted when no longer relevant. Class lists must be Hidden to comply with FERPA privacy rules.

User
No longer used.