RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP populate AD with Exchange 5.5 info

[Charlie Kaiser]

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I just finished a migration from NT4 to W3K AD. We had a tremendous amount of info in our exchange directory that we wanted in AD. I used the exchange 2003 ADC to populate the AD with the info from exchange once the accounts were built. It worked almost flawlessly. The only glitch I had was on a couple of accounts which were also associated with resource mailboxes, it changed the primary mailbox owner for that account to the new domain account before I was ready to cut that user over. Simple change back, though.

I had used Fastlane Migrator to migrate the user accounts, including SID history. It worked well. I had some issues with their exchange migration piece that I'm still working on resolving, but I think that product is capable of doing some of the exchange data import into AD. It also allows you to massage and manipulate the data. For us, the ADC was perfectly adequate.

Try it in your test lab first and see if it works...

 

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Charlie Kaiser
MCSE, CCNA
Systems Engineer
Essex Credit / Brickwalk
510 985 0975 x5083
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Milburn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 6:06 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ActiveDir] LDAP populate AD with Exchange 5.5 info

Does anyone have any experience pulling Exchange 5.5 data to populate AD with?  When you upgrade an NT4 domain you end up with almost no info on your AD accounts, but typically all that info exists in the Exchange 5.5 directory (have heard several recommendations against using the AD connector).  Searches in AD are poor to useless without some of this info.  I've done it before using LDIFDE and mailmerge in Word against the CSV file I exported, and that was a lot of work... probably a script with LDAP from Exchange to AD would be best but before I reinvent the wheel...

Also is this a good step prior to going to Exchange 2003 (sorry if that's a little OT) or is the migration going to take care of that for us?

Thanks

Rich

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