Here is a script I wrote to do a simple GAL synchronization between two Exchange organizations. The script finds the mail-enabled users in one domain, and creates contacts for them in the other domain. Existing contacts will also be updated and deleted as needed. I’ve only tested this between two single-domain forests so far, and error checking [...]
I have just posted this article in the Greatest Hits series on the ILM Technet forum. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/identitylifecyclemanager/thread/f8ad045d-7252-4cd1-a189-d704a8f99129 The article covers various management tasks you can acheive with the standard AD MA, including provisioning and updating of users, mailboxes, contacts and distribution groups. There are quite a few code samples as well.
Quite unexpectedly this week, I got to genuinely use SCR “in anger” when I killed a client’s production Exchange 2007 server by attempting to install SP2 on it (for that whole sorry story see http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/exchangesoftwareupdate/thread/713d2b17-f19d-4eaf-8146-c51f59942d08?prof=required). I’ll keep my swearing about SP2 off the page here and focus on the hero of the week – which was SCR!
I just got this error while attempting to provision Exchange 2007 users with ILM 2007 FP1: Event Type: Error Event Source: MIIServer Event Category: Server Event ID: 6801 Date: 15.09.2009 Time: 10:14:02 User: N/A Computer: ILMSERVER Description: The extensible extension returned an unsupported error in MIIS. The stack trace is: “Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.ExtensionException: **** [...]
I’ve been doing a bit of work with SCR lately, the point being to achieve a “poor man’s failover” for the mailbox server role. Not everyone needs the immediacy, or the expense, of a cluster, and SCR was a welcome addition to the redundacy capabilities of Exchange 2007 – but I couldn’t find a complete [...]
Just a quick post about this technote: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc671176.aspx It claims this bug was fixed in rollup 4, but after struggling with a server with rollup 7 installed for many hours today, I can confirm that this bug is not fixed, and you do need to follow the procedure in the technote. The bug concerns Outlook [...]
A while back I proposed a powershell XMA approach to the problem of adding Exchange 2007 mailboxes to existing AD users. This was because my old method of adding an Exchange 2003 mailbox by populating a couple of extra attributes did not seem to work with Exchange 2007. However, in a recent thread on the [...]
This post builds on yesterday’s which should be read first. Following are the extra Sync Rule and MA configurations that I made which added the Exchange 2007 support.
This is a follow-up to the post about renaming a domain with Exchange 2007, which you actually can’t do as it turns out, so this became a migration to a new forest. I was mostly working on the mailbox migration, so this post only covers Exchange 2007 to 2007 cross-forest migration.
Here’s an unpleasant little fact you only find out if you need to: while you could rename a domain that hosted Exchange 2003, this functionality has been removed with Exchange 2007. Hmm. So what if you need to? Well a customer is insisting that it must be done, so I’ve had to do some investigations.
