Tony, Appreciate the feedback - however, I do not understand the [your comment] use of the standard ADU&C vice the Exchange version. Are you saying that the adds [manual and CSVDE] would be different if done on a DC that did not have E2K System Manager loaded? In this case, both the manual and CSV adds were done on the same DC and being as this is a test bed scenario - E2K is also running on the DC. Is there any way that this would affect replication in an exchange mixed mode environment?
R/Bill -----Original Message----- From: Tony Murray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 10:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT? ADDING CONTACTS Bill The difference is that your manual method uses the Exchange version of Active Directory Users and computers. If you select the option to mail-enable the contact then it adds a whole bunch of attributes to the contact object in AD. Compare the two extracts from LDP below, the first being a mail-enabled contact and the second not. >> Dn: CN=Alfred Contact,CN=Users,DC=root,DC=dom 1> cn: Alfred Contact; 1> displayName: Alfred; 1> mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 1> givenName: Alfred; 1> instanceType: 0x4 = ( IT_WRITE ); 1> legacyExchangeDN: /o=VMEX2003/ou=First Administrative Group/cn=Recipients/cn=AlfredContact; 1> distinguishedName: CN=Alfred Contact,CN=Users,DC=root,DC=dom; 1> objectCategory: CN=Person,CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=root,DC=dom; 4> objectClass: top; person; organizationalPerson; contact; 1> objectGUID: f84228a6-7a7d-41de-be42-8877591f1467; 2> proxyAddresses: SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]; X400:c=US;a= ;p=VMEX2003;o=Exchange;s=Contact;g=Alfred;; 1> name: Alfred Contact; 2> showInAddressBook: CN=Default Global Address List,CN=All Global Address Lists,CN=Address Lists Container,CN=VMEX2003,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=root,DC=dom; CN=All Contacts,CN=All Address Lists,CN=Address Lists Container,CN=VMEX2003,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=root,DC=dom; 1> sn: Contact; 1> textEncodedORAddress: c=US;a= ;p=VMEX2003;o=Exchange;s=Contact;g=Alfred;; 1> uSNChanged: 20782; 1> uSNCreated: 20780; 1> whenChanged: 11/21/2003 16:36:17 W. Europe Standard Time W. Europe Daylight Time; 1> whenCreated: 11/21/2003 16:35:40 W. Europe Standard Time W. Europe Daylight Time; 1> internetEncoding: 1310720; 1> mailNickname: AlfredContact; 1> mAPIRecipient: FALSE; 1> targetAddress: SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]; 1> msExchALObjectVersion: 21; 1> msExchPoliciesIncluded: {ECEFDA4D-8EEE-4CCF-A8DE-E8E00FAEE60B},{26491CFC-9E50-4857-861B-0CB8DF22B5D7}; ----------- >> Dn: CN=Bobby Contact,CN=Users,DC=root,DC=dom 1> cn: Bobby Contact; 1> displayName: Bobby; 1> givenName: Bobby; 1> instanceType: 0x4 = ( IT_WRITE ); 1> distinguishedName: CN=Bobby Contact,CN=Users,DC=root,DC=dom; 1> objectCategory: CN=Person,CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=root,DC=dom; 4> objectClass: top; person; organizationalPerson; contact; 1> objectGUID: 71b94639-99f6-44bb-a393-50eeec2f2b93; 1> name: Bobby Contact; 1> sn: Contact; 1> uSNChanged: 20786; 1> uSNCreated: 20786; 1> whenChanged: 11/21/2003 16:38:57 W. Europe Standard Time W. Europe Daylight Time; 1> whenCreated: 11/21/2003 16:38:57 W. Europe Standard Time W. Europe Daylight Time; ----------- If you use the standard version of ADUC (dsa.msc) you won't populate all the Exchange-related content. Tony ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Brown, Bill [contractor]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 09:34:24 -0500 Not sure if this question is off-track or not. I would not think so as it deals with AD attributes. But if it is deemed OT - then my apologies to the list! If you add contacts into AD via CSVDE, you specify certain required attributes and you additionally specify certain attributes that you want populated with specific values and you additionally specify the OU into which the imported contacts will be placed - OK, pretty much straight forward. If you add a contact manually in a specific OU - AD wants to know the Associated Administrative Group that this contact is associated with - OK, again pretty much straight forward. But wait, that was a different step from the CSVDE import! My question to the list - What AD attribute is populated by selecting the Associated Administrative Group in the manual method as opposed to the import method? R/Bill List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
