On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 07:57:37PM +1000, Brad Hards wrote:

> In many ways, it seems that it isn't all that much different to the way in 
> which some unix tools work.  

MS have explicitly acknowledged they are borrowing commandline ideas.

> I'm seeing an opportunity for a cross-platform GUI tool that can do a bit 
> more 
> than the exchange GUI....

SWAT! Joking.

That opportunity exists and someone from the GUI projects may well make
it happen (maybe via Elektra?) but OC needs to produce the building
blocks for this. Which is why we want to get the object definitions
right, and start really early by offering commandline tools of our own.
I am sure portable commandline tools that offer atomic operations will
appeal to many Exchange administrators. Have you got any thoughts about
this, having just been playing with the shell?

Then there are the use cases.  So far as have two administrative
functions that an unprivileged client can reasonably use (automatic
profile generation, and locale twiddling.) We need to understand what
else there might be. (And it looks likely to me that GUI developers will
end up shipping the admin library with their clients, unless we start
splitting the admin library.)

-- 
Dan Shearer
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