When you say verify, what do you mean exactly. That means multiple things to me, such as whether one was created, whether there are dups, whether it conforms to the naming standards, and so on. Can you provide some boundaries?
Personally, I haven't seen anything that does this as a tool. Although it's expected that this is built in to the creation process, there are ways this can get messed up and there are ways to circumvent even the safe-guards built into the Exchange product. There are ways to prevent it as well such as having a good system of unique id's for user LHS of the SMTP addresses etc. In practice, you never see users with unfriendly smtp addresses for very long though :) Haven't looked at the new health checker to see if it identifies proxy-address issues. Probably should. I would think a perl or vbscript with regular expressions would be helpful, but for dups it would require a little more effort to catch before monitoring does especially in a large environment. Some sort of database app would be most efficient I would think. Al -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 6:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] ProxyAddress Verification Tools What is the best tool out there that checks and verifies proxyaddresses are good (format and info) and not duplicated in a forest? I have a perl script to do it, but would like something faster and don't really want to write it but will if I have to. You are verifying your proxyaddresses right? If not, you might consider it. In my last position at a world class widget factory company that was a huge issue and caused Exchange great stress. We found thousands of issues in the proxyaddresses. joe 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/
