-Background:
Win2k SP2 / Ex5.5 SP4+3 / Outlook 97/98/2000/XP
-Situation:
Back 6 months ago, I was given the responsibility by our Corporate office to
add everyone in the company worldwide (22,000+ employees) to the GAL, so
that our employees at this site could easily remain in contact with other
employees around the world.
-Problem:
We are not physically connected to the corporate network. We are an
autonomous, wholly-owned subsidiary. Another company in the area (the Prime
Contractor for this DOE site) in the owner of our Exchange org. We are a
site in their org. When I asked if I could create a new "Our Company
Corporate" container in our site and import all those people into that
container, they said, "No. We don't want all those people in the GAL, even
if you use ABV's to keep our people from seeing them. We don't want that
much additional data in our system."
So, I tried several things, including asking this list what I should do, but
just decided that until we migrate to a new domain name and our own
Win2k/E2K/AD system, that I was just going to have to live with this
limitation.
At the present time, I am opening the .csv file from corporate, massaging
the data and then importing it into a contacts folder in a mailbox, through
the Outlook client. Once that is done, I go to the Corporate Contacts PF
and delete all the old contacts, which takes hours. I then move all the
newly imported contacts to the PF.
Yesterday, I thought I had found the answer to my problem while rummaging
around in the Exchange Admin console:
-From the online help in MS Exchange Admin:
Trust Level for Custom Recipient:
Determines whether information about this custom recipient is replicated
to other mail systems during directory synchronization. If the custom
recipient's trust level exceeds the trust level that you set for the
container, information about the custom recipient will not be replicated
during directory synchronization.
However, after a little more research, it looks like this won't help, since
I think it's only for MS Mail connectors and we don't use MS Mail:
-From "Managing Microsoft Exchange Server" by Paul Robichaux, Chapter 6, Pg
187, Para 2:
Trust Level (0-100):
This control lets you set the replication trust level for this mailbox.
Items whose trust levels are higher than the directory replication
connector's threshold won't be replicated through the Microsoft Mail
directory synchronization process. This is a simple way to allow some
items, but not others, to replicate between sites or organizations, provided
you're using MS Mail. You can also set a trust level, then filter on it,
when you use directory import and export, as discussed in Chapter 5.
This "Q" article simply confirms Paul's assertion, that this feature is only
for MS Mail:
XFOR: Trust Level Modifications for Recipients Ignored (Q147790)
-Question:
Does anyone know how I could implement this same idea and keep things from
replicating across the bridgehead to the GAL, for the Custom Recipients in
the new container, that would have only SMTP addresses?
TIA,
Jim Blunt
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