Thanks, all. I got in touch with the source of this mandate and all I could get was the concern that rebuilding will require people to re-download offline address books. At this point, I regret to inform you that the concern appears to be more political (turf protection) than technical. I know I piqued your interests, sorry to disappoint :-p. Sincerely,
Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE+M MCSA+M MCP+I Microsoft MVP - Directory Services www.readymaids.com - we know IT www.akomolafe.com Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about Yesterday? -anon ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Mulnick, Al Sent: Tue 11/16/2004 9:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Rebuilding RUS - sanity check It *should* process all changes when you rebuild vs. update. Rebuilding causes the RUS to process every account in AD as noted. Updating works with the USN's and is just a manual run of what is otherwise running every 60 seconds IIRC meaning that it looks for the USN's and processes those that meet the criteria. Al -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 12:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Rebuilding RUS - sanity check You know I think the "bad" thing about this is simply that you are forcing the RUS to look at every single object again which is costly. During that time, it isn't, I believe, processing normal day to day stuff (i.e. changes). I could be wrong though. :o) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 11:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Rebuilding RUS - sanity check I have always thought that rebuilding (or updating) the Recipient Update Services after a reconfiguration of Recipient Policies is a "normal", non-destructive procedure. I am just now learning that rebuilding RUS is a "no-no" and must be avoided at all cost. I have not spoken directly to the "source" of this information, so there is no information regarding the perceived adverse impact. Does anyone have any documentation or reference for this mandate? What does rebuilding RUS break in an E2K3/W2K3 environment? Short of having to write additional spaghetti codes to loop through existing objects (~20K in total) and restamping each with new SMTP addresses, what is the recommended way of making sure that newly created RPs are applied to existing objects - if we can't rebuild RUS? Thanks all. Sincerely, Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE+M MCSA+M MCP+I Microsoft MVP - Directory Services www.readymaids.com - we know IT www.akomolafe.com Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about Yesterday? -anon 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/
