You can indeed use an MS Mail Connector Dirsync to connect two Exchange organizations. It is unsupported by Microsoft because you have to change the Exchange Postoffice serial number. There was an article on how to do this sometime back in Exchange Administrator. You might be able to find it in the Win2000mag.com site, but I think they charge a fee.
May I suggest a product like Compaq's LDAP Directory Synchronization Utility, Microsoft Metadirectory Service, or SimpleSync? Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP kcCC+I Tech Consultant Compaq Computer Corporation Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Blunt, James H (Jim) Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 12:33 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Custom Recipient Trust Levels & Replication -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 _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
