Adventures in identity management
I can see I have a lot to learn with ILM2 (and I’m still in the “I don’t wanna change” phase, so it’s heavy going), but I’m starting with something familiar, and that is import and export flow rules. I knew that there was going to be a web portal way of doing flow rules…
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.
After successfully installing the ILM2 RC0 server, my next goal was to migrate the data, MAs and extension dlls from a production ILM 2007 server.
So, I have a bit of time this week while the year gets started, and thought I would spend it playing with the latest evaluation version of ILM “2”. I hope to upgrade my company’s system at some point, so my first plan is to see if I can import the existing ILM 2007 database into it –…
Notification of an MVP award was in my inbox this morning – a very nice way to start the new year! I only hope I can find myself some good ILM 2 projects in 2009. The last few months of 2008 was all about Exchange, and next week I’m off on a SCOM course. Still,…
Still on Exchange migrations here, and after wasting half today on a very strange certificate problem, here’s the solution I eventually found.
Another off-topic post today, because lately it’s all been migrations – Exchange migrations, data migrations, printer migrations…. I think I might have to rename this blog Miss Migrations! As part of an enourmous data migration involving server name and drive letter changes, I was tasked with repairing links in thousands of Excel spreadsheets. We trialled…
The most popular post on this blog continues to be Adding Exchange 2003 Mailboxes to Existing Accounts so I’m guessing this is something a lot of people need to do. ATTENTION: PLEASE SEE this post INSTEAD for the basic method. I hadn’t posted an Exchange 2007 method earlier because I haven’t needed to do it in production, and the ongoing…
In this post I discussed some ways to simplify an MIIS/ILM installation, with a view to making it more efficient and easier to troubleshoot and maintain. I have a few more points for the list.
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…