Chris and Greg, thank you both for your assistance. We really only need to add as contacts to of Active Directory the people who do not have Exchange mailboxes. They have their mail on other non-exchange systems.
I understand that MMS can do this job for us, but MMS 3.0 is not release yet and so we are trying to find another way to maintain the synchronization of the Active Directory with the HR database which is oracle-based. However, we can get an extracted flat HR file to work with, if we need to do that. Thank you again. -----Original Message----- From: Chris Scharff [mailto:chris_scharff@;messageone.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 5:08 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Exchange 2000 Active Directory Attributes I'd always categorized you as $arse0 Greg[1], but thanks for the additional information. I think Ron had also previously asked about metadirectory tools, some of which might be able to provide significant assistance in developing an overall data synchronization strategy. [1] <g> > -----Original Message----- > From: Greg Deckler [mailto:greg@;infonition.com] > Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 12:43 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > > $arse1 reporting for duty. Chris has everything right here, especially > about how to think of accounts and mailboxes. There are dozens of fields > that you can test for to determine whether or not an account is > mailbox-enabled. One such field is "msExchHomeServerName". > > The other item to note here is that most of the code routines used to > mailbox-enable someone will simply fail if the account is already > mailbox-enabled, so you really do not have to be too concerned with it. A > good example is the Exchange Migration Wizard's ability to flip contacts > into mailboxes. If you happen to run it against a pre-existing mailbox, it > simply does nothing. So, no harm, no foul. > > Ronald, I strongly urge you to read up on accounts/contacts, mail-enabled > accounts/contacts and mailbox-enabled accounts. You still seem to be > speaking in E55 terminology and it is a whole new ball game in E2K and AD. > BTW, what HR system are you interfacing with? More and more of them are > starting to provide connectors with AD. > > > At the risk of a moron or two trying to indicate that I'm rude in my > > response, can I point that there isn't really a difference between a > user > > account and a mailbox per se (or at least that's a backwards way to > think > > about it for your purposes), instead there is a user object and that > object > > can be mail or mailbox enabled. > > > > In your instance I believe that you will first want to determine if > there is > > a user account for the user in question. If there is, then you want to > > determine if it is a mail enabled or a mailbox enabled object. If it is > > neither, you likely want to mail enable it, rather than create a contact > for > > it. If a user object does not exist for a user, then you have to decide > if > > you want to create a user account for it (and optionally mail or mailbox > > enable it) or create a contact for it. > > > > Further risking the ire of a moron or two, I'll start first with a > fishing > > lesson.. and point you to two articles which show how to create mailbox > and > > mail enabled users respectively and hint that they provide a good > starting > > point for further research on your query. > > > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en- > us/wss/wss/_cd > > o_creating_a_mailbox_enabled_recipient.asp > > > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en- > us/wss/wss/_cd > > o_creating_a_contact.asp > > > > As an additional pointer, you might also want to take a look at ADSI > Edit > > which can provide some additional useful information. If after looking > over > > that information you have additional queries, please feel free to post a > > follow-up question or three. Or, just wait for $arse1 and $arse2 to post > > much more complete and helpful answers than mine. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Bare, Ronald A. [mailto:RABARE@;ANL.GOV] > > > Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 3:43 PM > > > To: Exchange Discussions > > > > > > Can anyone point me to information on what Active Directory attributes > are > > > used to indicate that an Exchange 2000 mailbox has been associate with > an > > > Active Directory account. > > > > > > We are trying to prepare a program to synchronize the Active Directory > > > with > > > our HR directory and we need this information to decide for which > users to > > > create contact entries. We (of course) do not want to create contacts > for > > > the people who already Exchange enabled accounts. > > > > > > Thank you. > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:leave-exchange@;ls.swynk.com > 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:leave-exchange@;ls.swynk.com 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:leave-exchange@;ls.swynk.com Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
