The biggest issue you'll run into with multiple containers creating a hierarchy is that you cannot easily move mailboxes between containers.
If Jane the mailgirl moves into the finance department, you would need to exmerge her mailbox to a PST, delete the mailbox, create an identical mailbox in the new container (which just like with NT SIDS, would not be the same mailbox) then import the PST. People responding to mail from her old account would get NDR'd. SIS would be lost. Anything that pointed to the old mailbox would fail. Your project to eliminate the hierarchy and create a flat structure would multiply that manyfold. > -----Original Message----- > From: Juan Fernando Salazar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 1:16 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Hierarchy or Flat Global Address List > > > Hierarchy or Flat Global Address List > Hello, > > Most Exchange 5.5 implementations I've seen have this flat > Global Address > List, but today I've been asked for eliminating a hierarchy (you know > Finance then Accounting, etc) in this Global Address List, therefore > leaving it flat. > > For my surprise it can't be done clicking and dragging, so my > questions > are: > > 1. what are the difference between having flat or with a > hierarchy? pros > and cons, and > > 2. the most important how can I delete all this hierarchy and leave it > flat? > > Please your comments and help will be very much appreciated, > > Juan Fernando Salazar > [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] > _________________________________________________________________ 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]
