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| Dave Detlefs 2002-10-05, 8:30 pm |
| Our W2k domain contains a large number users that do not use Exchange, but
instead use another email system. We don't want to create mailboxes for
them because 1) they would go unused and 2) the additional overhead seems a
waste of resurces. The problem is, none of these users are picked up in the
GAL, or any other list, because the mailnickname attribute is not set, i.e.
they don't have a mailbox. Is there a way to add these users to an address
list, so that Outlook users can search the list to find and email any
coworker, not just those that have Exchange mailboxes? If we
programatically set the mailnickname attribute, would that work?
Thanks,
--Dave
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| Trevor Lawrence 2002-10-05, 8:30 pm |
| We've done just this. You need to set properties according to this snippet
from my code
SetProperty(usr, "mailNickName", samName)
SetProperty(usr, "legacyExchangeDN", LegacyDNBase & "cn=" & samName)
SetProperty(usr, "targetAddress", "SMTP:" & mail)
SetProperty(usr, "mapiRecipient", False)
(SetProperty is a method of my own. mail is the email address of the user
in the foreign system. In our case that has been extracted from the mail
property of the same user.)
Trevor Lawrence
"Dave Detlefs" <dhd@umich.edu> wrote in message
news:OrRWNIdaCHA.1784@tkmsftngp12...
> Our W2k domain contains a large number users that do not use Exchange, but
> instead use another email system. We don't want to create mailboxes for
> them because 1) they would go unused and 2) the additional overhead seems
a
> waste of resurces. The problem is, none of these users are picked up in
the
> GAL, or any other list, because the mailnickname attribute is not set,
i.e.
> they don't have a mailbox. Is there a way to add these users to an
address
> list, so that Outlook users can search the list to find and email any
> coworker, not just those that have Exchange mailboxes? If we
> programatically set the mailnickname attribute, would that work?
>
> Thanks,
> --Dave
>
>
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| Xavier Spence 2002-10-05, 8:30 pm |
| Why not create Mailenabled contacts?
"Dave Detlefs" <dhd@umich.edu> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:OrRWNIdaCHA.1784@tkmsftngp12...
> Our W2k domain contains a large number users that do not use Exchange, but
> instead use another email system. We don't want to create mailboxes for
> them because 1) they would go unused and 2) the additional overhead seems
a
> waste of resurces. The problem is, none of these users are picked up in
the
> GAL, or any other list, because the mailnickname attribute is not set,
i.e.
> they don't have a mailbox. Is there a way to add these users to an
address
> list, so that Outlook users can search the list to find and email any
> coworker, not just those that have Exchange mailboxes? If we
> programatically set the mailnickname attribute, would that work?
>
> Thanks,
> --Dave
>
>
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| Trevor Lawrence 2002-10-05, 8:31 pm |
| PS.
You don't need to set legacyExchangeDN, RUS will do it for you. But RUS
seems to almost arbitrarily choose an Admin group for the user to belong to.
So if you want to control this you can set it yourself.
Trevor
"Trevor Lawrence" <TrevorL@ise.canberra.edu.au> wrote in message
news:uYbLP5daCHA.2612@tkmsftngp12...
> We've done just this. You need to set properties according to this
snippet
> from my code
>
> SetProperty(usr, "mailNickName", samName)
>
> SetProperty(usr, "legacyExchangeDN", LegacyDNBase & "cn=" & samName)
>
> SetProperty(usr, "targetAddress", "SMTP:" & mail)
>
> SetProperty(usr, "mapiRecipient", False)
>
>
>
> (SetProperty is a method of my own. mail is the email address of the user
> in the foreign system. In our case that has been extracted from the mail
> property of the same user.)
>
>
>
> Trevor Lawrence
>
> "Dave Detlefs" <dhd@umich.edu> wrote in message
> news:OrRWNIdaCHA.1784@tkmsftngp12...
> > Our W2k domain contains a large number users that do not use Exchange,
but
> > instead use another email system. We don't want to create mailboxes for
> > them because 1) they would go unused and 2) the additional overhead
seems
> a
> > waste of resurces. The problem is, none of these users are picked up in
> the
> > GAL, or any other list, because the mailnickname attribute is not set,
> i.e.
> > they don't have a mailbox. Is there a way to add these users to an
> address
> > list, so that Outlook users can search the list to find and email any
> > coworker, not just those that have Exchange mailboxes? If we
> > programatically set the mailnickname attribute, would that work?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > --Dave
> >
> >
>
>
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| Trevor Lawrence 2002-10-05, 8:31 pm |
| Perhaps because A/D users already exist for these people so they can log on
to their computers. Why have a contact and a user for each such person when
a mail-enabled user will do fine.
Trevor
"Xavier Spence" <Xavier.Spence@t-online.de> wrote in message
news:ane508$8rb$03$1@news.t-online.com...
> Why not create Mailenabled contacts?
>
>
> "Dave Detlefs" <dhd@umich.edu> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:OrRWNIdaCHA.1784@tkmsftngp12...
> > Our W2k domain contains a large number users that do not use Exchange,
but
> > instead use another email system. We don't want to create mailboxes for
> > them because 1) they would go unused and 2) the additional overhead
seems
> a
> > waste of resurces. The problem is, none of these users are picked up in
> the
> > GAL, or any other list, because the mailnickname attribute is not set,
> i.e.
> > they don't have a mailbox. Is there a way to add these users to an
> address
> > list, so that Outlook users can search the list to find and email any
> > coworker, not just those that have Exchange mailboxes? If we
> > programatically set the mailnickname attribute, would that work?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > --Dave
> >
> >
>
>
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