The advantage to the e-mail address is it's generally unique and not proprietary like an emp# might be. Course there are some mailboxes such as a resource mailbox which don't map to an individual user.. Those can be fun to migrate as well.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Hatley, Ken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 11:02 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Identifying your Exchange Org > > > Problem is that not all of the orgs are designed the same and > some Ids are alias and some are not, I think you are right > though, I was trying to pull the data from another directory > that the bank maintains and the data is hit or miss on the > different fields. I will try to get approval to have them > enter smtp addresses and return the org...thanks. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Scharff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 10:49 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Identifying your Exchange Org > > If you have more than 1 exchange org, unless the users are > taking this survey via e-mail, I think entering their e-mail > address will be the most accurate method for collecting data. > Otherwise, I don't think there's any way to be sure that the > person filling out the survey on a particular machine matches > a particular server specified in an Outlook profile... > Especially in the case of people like bank tellers who tend > to not have a workstation assigned specifically to them... At > least in my experience. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Hatley, Ken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 10:44 AM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: RE: Identifying your Exchange Org > > > > > > Yes, I tried that, they did not want to have them type anything in > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Chris Scharff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 10:37 AM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: RE: Identifying your Exchange Org > > > > Is this for an internal BofA migration? If so, why not have > > the users enter their e-mail address and you can determine > > their org for them. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Hatley, Ken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 10:32 AM > > > To: Exchange Discussions > > > Subject: Identifying your Exchange Org > > > > > > > > > In preparation for Exchange 2000 migration, we have created an > > > online survey to help identify what Exchange 5.5 > applications need > > > to be migrated and gather contact information to help > expedite the > > > planning. The survey starts by asking you to click on > your Exchange > > > Organization, but we are worried that people will not > know which one > > > they belong. > > > I had an idea to create some way for them to click on a > > > button and tell them which Org that they belong to. I was > > > thinking we could run some VB script that identifies their > > > Exchange Server by looking at their registry and comparing a > > > list of known servers. Does this sound like it is feasible? > > > Anyone ever had to do anything like this? Anyone have any > > > sample code to assist if this seems like the right way to go? > > _________________________________________________________________ > 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] > _________________________________________________________________ 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]
