Al, the document i reference is titled "Understanding an Deploying Exchange 2000 Active Directory Connector" - sourced from the given URL
I am aware that this is for Ex2k ADC - but can find no similar document for Ex2k3 ! so i have taken assumption this is not to far off !?? your are perhaps right on "my expectation" - my initial view has been to replicate data only from the 5.5 where it is required - by implication the AD is the authoritative data source this is the rationale behind my endeavour to understand how to manage, prior to what will likely be a big hit, the data that is brought into the directory from 5.5 GT ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mulnick, Al" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 4:09 PM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD replication from 5.5 using ADC > 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/ > 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/
