Adventures in identity management
I have just completed what initially sounded like a fairly straight-forward project – install Exchange 2007 and migrate 35 mailboxes from Lotus Notes. The migration would be one-shot – so no need for a coexistance phase. Such a small migration didn’t seem to warrant the purchase of Quest or Transend – and besides, the Microsoft recommendation is…
The AD management agent uses an account to connect to AD and, more often than not, this account is a member of Domain Admins. However in some organisations this is not acceptable. So what rights does it actually need?
Since finally getting around to enabling blog stats I can see the Exchange posts continue to be popular so, to add to the series, here is a step-by-step guide to basic Exchange 2007 provisioning with ILM 2007.
Note June 2011: This post gets a lot of hits but is very old now. I haven’t revisited the powershell-Excel story since writing this post and it may well be a lot easier now. I would love nothing better than to do one ILM project after another, but it doesn’t always pan out like that,…