Of course. I've done that myself. I wrote the same kind of stuff for Exchange before it ever supported LDAP, i.e., programs that export the directory, massage in data from external sources, then import it back. It's a lot of fun but a lot of work.
Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP kcCC+I Tech Consultant hp Services Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Alverson, Tom Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 12:59 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Help with Seperate Organizations Thanks for the reply Ed. Greg has explained it all in his reply. My confusion was because I was wondering if there was a way to do this without all the manual manipulation that I am doing with excel now. According to Greg, they coded up a custom parsing program to manipulate the csv's. Tom -----Original Message----- From: Ed Crowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 1:45 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Help with Seperate Organizations Everything you say is correct. "Update" mode will "Create" them if they don't exist and "Modify" them if they do. What else needs explaining? Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP kcCC+I Tech Consultant hp Services Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Alverson, Tom Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 10:40 AM To: Exchange Discussions Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Help with Seperate Organizations I having a hard time figuring out how you would fully automate the exporting and importing of addresses between two different organizations. I am doing this manually now and the "foreign" addresses are Obj-Class remote and the Mode is set to create. I must delete all of the recipients out of the container before I import the new list so that deletions from the source system go away and also if the user exists, the create mode won't work. Are there any tips or resources explaining this? I have most of the Exchange 5.5 books and have not seen this covered in any of them (I'm running exchange 5.5 on both ends). Tom -----Original Message----- From: gdeckler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 10:09 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: Help with Seperate Organizations Yes and no. No, there is no way to have them share the Global Address List but yes, there are work-a-rounds without moving them into the same Organization. 1. You could use the CSV export and import features of the admin program to export desired directory entries into a text file and then import these text files into the appropriate directories. I have done this successfully for clients looking for directory synchronization on-the-cheap. I am not going to say that this is the best solution, but it works and is completely automatable. The main issue is that it is not true synchronization. So you are blasting the foreign entries and re-importing them each time, which makes your directory grow. Anyway, there are lots more that I could say about this solution but I'll try to keep this brief. 2. You could use some other third-party synchronization program. Warning: shameless plug. My company actually has a beta _________________________________________________________________ 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] _________________________________________________________________ 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]
