However, seeing joe's reply - go with his suggestion.  He's got a better
instinct for this stuff than I do.  But, strangely he's not an Exchange whiz
kid either....  funny, that.

Rick

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan
Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 3:24 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] LegacyExchangeDN

Steve,

As someone who knows quite a bit about AD and LDAP, but am just now getting
my arms around the Exchange juggernaut (there is soooo much more to know
than I even imagined....  I am awed by Exchange Guru's.... much like I'm
sure that they are awed by us) I'd wonder if this could be written as such:

Second line, with the Comma:

/O=THE COLLEGE OF NORTH WEST LONDON/OU=MAIN/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=KENT\,
VANESSA

Which is specified in RFC 2253 - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3):
UTF-8 String Representation of Distinguished Names

(http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2253.html)

And, which presents and eample of such:

CN=L. Eagle,O=Sue\, Grabbit and Runn,C=GB

Dunno - I'm not messing with the Exchange systems today, else I'd try it
out.  Let me know if you make progress.

Rick

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Rochford
Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 10:04 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [ActiveDir] LegacyExchangeDN

I'm trying to use Exmerge to backup the Exchange store (this is an extra
to a "proper" store level backup so that we can retrieve odd messages
for people who manage to delete them; I do know that it's not the best
way to do the backup!).

It all works well except for users with a comma in the LegacyExchangeDN
- the mailboxes.txt file created by ExMerge has lines like:

/O=THE COLLEGE OF NORTH WEST LONDON/OU=MAIN/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=1794
/O=THE COLLEGE OF NORTH WEST LONDON/OU=MAIN/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=KENT,
VANESSA

The first of these backs up OK; the second doesn't. I'm guessing that
it's because of the comma. I could probably find some way of creating
the file so that there were quotes round the whole line but I'd rather
lose the comma. 

Is there anything which depends on the value of LegacyExchangeDN which
might fall over if I change the values for some accounts (running
Exchange 2003 on Windows 2003 but these accounts started life on
Exchange 5.5/NT4)

Steve
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