Exchange depends on AD, in fact you have to extend the forest schema and the 
domain shcema before installing Exchange, once installed it will create 
mailboxes for the leaf objects  (User Accounts) in AD and as you know AD 
depends heavily on DNS. Exchange is a whole beast all by it self 
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996058(EXCHG.80).aspx


On Feb 14, 2011, at 3:47 PM, Robin Wood wrote:

> On 14 February 2011 17:55, Carlos Perez <[email protected]> wrote:
>> for AD wich will populate also Exchange you can do from cmd
>>  for /F %i in (1,1,1000) do dsadd user
>> cn=User%i,ou=bulk,dc=acmeinclab,dc=com-pwd User%i
> 
> Nice, thought there might be something like that. As I'm installing
> Exchange on a separate machine is it obvious how the two will link
> together?
> 
> Robin
> 
>> On Feb 14, 2011, at 12:17 PM, Robin Wood wrote:
>> 
>> I asked this on Twitter earlier but thought I'd try a wider audience....
>> 
>> My windows test lab is looking a bit sparse on data, I've got plenty
>> of web and sql data but nothing much in my AD and I'm about to setup
>> an Exchange server which won't get much beyond a couple of accounts to
>> test the setup worked. I've also got Sharepoint to install (blessed is
>> Technet!) which will start out empty.
>> 
>> Does anyone have any canned data for AD, Sharepoint or Exchange so I
>> can beef it all up a bit?
>> 
>> Even better, is there an easy way to script creating data so that I
>> can generate a load to my own specs?
>> 
>> Robin
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