Graham, it sounds like you have different expectations of what the ADC does for you. In the scenario you speak of, ADC is considering 5.5 to be authoritative for several fields. If you have multiple sites (5.5 or Active Directory) I suggest you get this worked out in some way to maintain consistency both before as well as after you join the directories.
On that note, since this is a directory join question, I think it's on topic for this forum. If this is not something you want to have happen, you can modify the behavior for several of the attributes but I was under the impression that modifying the flags you mention is not the way it's done in 2003. Just can't remember where I saw that at the moment. :) I'll look if it's applicable to your situation, but it's likely one of the docs on http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/library Finally, what document are you referencing so we can all see the same information. If it needs to be fixed, then we should submit that for fixing. Al -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Graham Turner Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 10:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] AD replication from 5.5 using ADC hopefully once again i am not charged with going too O/T with this one, but was looking to get a bit of further information on the potential impact of a replication from an exchange 5.5 server to a win2k AD it seems there is potential for the change of attributes already in the AD if there is different data in the 5.5 directory. the most obvious of these seems to be the "display name" given its prevalence in most directories, and likelihood (this is true in this specfic case) of different convention being used between the directories; in 5.5 we have surname ^ firstname , whilst on AD we have the other way round ! i have reviewed the ADC documentation seems there are two ways we can acheive some sort of control - i. default adc policy where we can set globally certain attribute data not to be replicated ii. 'connection agreement' policy which is manipulated using ADSI edit the latter seems preferable given scope for different CA configuration could anyone possibly explain what this actually does - the ADC doc's reference quotes "Do not overwrite RDN with the Exchange 5.5 Alias attribute." don't know if this is a typo but the alias in a 5.5 directory does not look to relate to the display name as the technote seems to suggest does this ADC configuraton value relate ONLY to the replication of the "display name" ?? am i also right to say that this MSEXCHSERVER1FLAGS value controls the behaviour when replicating to Windows (and by implication from Exchange 5.5 ) ?? and that the msexchserver2flags value controls the behaviour the other way round ? if i am too O/T my apologies - GT 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/
