Yeah that doc is supposed to be about what they are doing with MONAD for Exchange. I, for one, based on some EHLO blog posts am concerned about its functionality and how it will work in large environments. I will try to download and read that doc to see if it has any meat in it but most Exchange docs tend to shy away from implementation details and you have to actually get the tools out and do things with it and watch closely what it does.
My main concern so far based on what the Exchange team indicated was that this command line stuff is going to be just as fat as the GUI stuff in terms of traffic which will actually be felt in a worse way because with the GUI you tend to pick and choose what you want and command line you are usually trying to hit mass quantities. It sounds like if you say wanted one little piece of info for every mailbox, say mailbox last logon date or something you would have to pull back ALL info for the mailbox and then just display the little bit of info you want. That will be fine in small LAN environments with small numbers of users (say thousands or less) but in a large environments with tens or hundreds of thousands of users or millions of users or working across slow WAN links that is going to be lacking considerably. If you you thought WMI slow... Just wait! I hope it doesn't turn out that way but I don't have a lot of faith in MSFT's large scale management strategies and tools for the most part. Especially in the Exchange realm. I haven't seen a larger company yet (read company > 100k users) that could actually use the MSFT Exchange management tools to do the needed work and even smaller companies tend to run pretty inefficiently using the tools. -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Desmond Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 11:05 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Command line for exchange > Command line for Exchange.. .yuck ? There isn't one to speak of now, although Monad had some fundamental issues last I saw/heard as far as the utility of the commands in large environments. Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132 > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ActiveDir- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - > SBS Rocks [MVP] > Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 9:13 PM > To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org > Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: Command line for exchange > > Download details: Introduction to the Exchange Management Shell: > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1dc0f61b-d30f- > 44a2-882e-12ddd4ee09d2&displaylang=en > > Command line for Exchange.. .yuck > > -- > Letting your vendors set your risk analysis these days? > http://www.threatcode.com > > If you are a SBSer and you don't subscribe to the SBS Blog... man ... I > will hunt you down... > http://blogs.technet.com/sbs > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx
