Export GAL?

Hello,

as we all (should) know, HMC removes users from the GAL if you edit them using
EMC or EMS. Of course, nobody will ever do this here in our company ;-), but we
want to be shure. So: Is there a way to export the GAL (meaning: a list of all
users, which are in it)? Because Reading out all Ex-Users is easy, and we could
then compare, whether some users are missing in the GAL.


Thanks

 Filipp

Filipp,

 Seems you do not understand how AL membership works. It is now the same as AD
user membership in group. In AD, user's object is linked to its group, and group
is back-linked to its members. So, you can enumerate group members, as well user
membership. In Exchange configuration, it is one-way link from user (or any
other mail-enabled object) to AL. This link in "showInAddressList"
attribute. In "normal" environment, RUS is responsible for
"showInAddressList" population with links (distinguished names) of
proper ALs based on AL filter. Since AL filter in HMC is empty, you can't use it
to build a "reference" AL/GAL. Same is applicable to Exchange RUS
itself - AL/GAL is EMPTY for Exchange (AL/GAL has NO MEMBERS). This fact
triggers RUS to remove link to AL from "showInAddressList" when you
call Set-Mailbox (etc.) and ... we all have what we have...

So, in HMC environment, "reference" membership in organization AL can
be calculated as "all mail-enabled objects inside organization OU, who is
not marked as "Do not show in address book" and not 'system' object
(like FolderAdmins@org)'. Procedure Hosted Email 2007::GetOrganizationObjects_
can help you build this list.

Hello,

unfortunately my MPS SDK doesn't know a
"GetOrganizationObjects_"-Method, neither seems the MPS to do (I'm not
absolutely shure, since the errormessage is a bit strange).

But I can get this Infos using PowerShell, i'll try this later.

Thanks for the Info!

 

Filipp

filippg:I also thought, the correct name auf "myALs" is
"showInAddressList". But i can't find this attribute.

Correct name is "showInAddressBook". Sorry for that ;-)

Hi,

sorry, I just don't get it.

I understood the post as follows: "Every Mail-enabled Object has an
attribute (lets say "myALs"), in which all the lists in which it
should appear are linked. On the other hand, every list has a receipient-filter.
This filter is applied whenever RUS runs or when an Object is edited. For all
objects, which are in this filter, the AL is added to myALs, for every object
which doesn't apply to this filter, the AL is removed from myALs." I also
thought, the correct name auf "myALs" is
"showInAddressList". But i can't find this attribute.

I then thougt, i could read out the myALs-Attribute on all mail-enabled Objects
in the Customer-OUs and check, whether the Customer-AL is included in the
Attribute's Value.

Where did i go wrong?

Thank you

 Filipp