More details then.... :-) We've got four Exchange servers, and use a utility I wrote to generate Domain accounts and mailboxes for new users. It's been through several revisions, orginally creating NT4 domain accounts and 5.5 mailboxes, but all it does now is to create the AD account, and set enough for the ADC to pick it up and create an Exchange 5.5 mailbox.
It creates a normal account, then adds the following attrbutes to the object mailNickname (alias in Exchange 5.5) msExchHomeServerName (Server to hold the mailbox) textEncodedORAddress (the mailbox X400 address) There's a list of attributes that will trigger ADC replication if set in Q253841. This gives a known set of mail addresses at the end, x400 is set directly and smtp is alias@..... This worked very well for a while, then we started to see an intermittent problem affecting mailbox permissions. Some (a high percentage) mailboxes were created OK, but the users rights to their mailbox were simply 'Custom' in Exchange 5.5 administrator. Accounts created via ADU&C were fine. We never got to the bottom of this, but it is worth mentioning that ADC has a very poor reputation, and is known to be extremely buggy. I got around this by creating a security descriptor with the access mask ADS_RIGHT_EXCH_MODIFY_USER_ATT | ADS_RIGHT_EXCH_MAIL_SEND_AS | ADS_RIGHT_EXCH_MAIL_RECEIVE_AS then adding it to the msExchMailboxSecurityDescriptor attribute. This is basically User permissions as far as Exchange 5.5 is concerned, so it accepts it, then when ADC replicates from Exchange to AD it updates this attribute to what it should be (Full mailbox access). I hope this is some help! Cheers dave -----Original Message----- From: Salandra, Justin A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 16 July 2002 14:14 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] ADC Question Dave I would be interested in knowing how you solved that problem. Eventually I may have multiple servers that run exchange. Thanks Justin A. Salandra, MCSE Senior Network Engineer Catholic Healthcare System 914.681.8117 office 646.483.3325 cell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Thornley, Dave H [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 3:30 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] ADC Question Hi Todd, We use ADC like this - creating accounts in AD, and allowing ADC to manage the creation of 5.5 mailboxes across four Exchange servers. You can specify the Exchange server to use by setting msExchHomeServerName on the AD account. ADC then uses this to place the mailbox in Exchange. We ran into a number of little problems doing this - if you have trouble then feel free to mail me offline for more information. Cheers dave -----Original Message----- From: Myrick, Todd (CIT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 15 July 2002 17:44 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] ADC Question Thanks Justin and all who replied. Someone said it did have issues though when it came to selecting a preferred server though. We have 12 Exchange mailbox servers. Have any of you attempted to create ADC accounts on a specific server? Thanks Todd -----Original Message----- From: Salandra, Justin A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 12:25 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] ADC Question Yes it can, once configured all info from AD populates Exchange and vice versa -----Original Message----- From: Myrick, Todd (CIT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 9:46 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [ActiveDir] ADC Question YI haven't had time to test this in our testbed, but wanted to see if anyone out there has done this yet. Can the ADC create mailboxes in a Exchange 5.5 directory from information in the AD? Thanks Todd List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
