The only part that seems to not have been addressed is this
question about the schema. What was that about?
Al
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 7:55 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP, Active Directory, SMTP addresses
I see a couple of vbscript solutions. My guess is that your
guys are sitting on *nix doing this so I will give some
generics.
Your search filter assuming you just want users with
mailboxes in exchange is going to be something like
(&(objectcategory=person)(objectclass=user)(msExchHomeServerName=*))
That should get all users with mailboxes on exchange. This
will also return system mailboxes and AV software mailboxes etc. You have the
option of removing those in the initial search filter by excluding their names
like
(&(objectcategory=person)(objectclass=user)(msExchHomeServerName=*)(!(name=SystemMailbox{*)))
but it
may impact your performance on the query so you may want to return them all, and
then filter from the script itself.
If you
want anything with an SMTP proxy address in the Exchange system your filter
would look like
(proxyaddresses=smtp:*)
but
you may want to filter out some of the names with a ! (NOT) or clean them up
afterwards.
So now
you have the filter. I would recommend searching a GC as you get the entire
forest in one shot. So that would be
Port:
3268
Search
Base: rootdomain.com (if you have multiple trees you will want a
null base "" or else you will only pick up stuff under the rootdomain
tree).
Attribute: proxyaddresses
Depending on how they want to index things, they could
also pull samaccountname or DN or mailnickname or whatever, I would recommend
indexing off of DN/mailnickname probably since samaccountnames aren't guaranteed
to be unique.
proxyAddresses is multivalued and you will find things
other than SMTP addresses so make sure they realize that when writing the script
so they can filter out that information. All smtp addresses will start with
smtp:. There should be one value with an uppercase SMTP: and the rest
should all be lowercase. The uppercase SMTP: is the primary mail address
according to Exchange.
Note
that the script will have to bind with a valid user ID to see this
information.
Hope
that helps out, it should at least get them started.
joe
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brown Glyn
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 5:15 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ActiveDir] LDAP, Active Directory, SMTP addresses
Hi Everybody
We are running a Windows 2000 domain with Exchange
2000.
I have very little to do with LDAP,
however I have had a request from the admins of our internet SMTP gateway. They
wish to do a regular extract of all users in certain OUs to get all valid SMTP
addresses. They want to do this so they can accept mail at the gateway for only
valid recipients, and also wish to rewrite some addresses from secondary SMTP
addresses to the primary before passing the mail to the internal mail
system.
They would like to know our schema and the appropriate attributes.
My question is... How do I go about providing this information to them in appropriate LDAP terms?
Thank you for any advice you may be able to provide
Cheers
-Glyn
