Re: canned data for AD and Exchanged

[Robin Wood <robin () digininja org>]

On 14 February 2011 20:26, Carlos Perez <carlos_perez () darkoperator com> wrote:
> Exchange depends on AD, in fact you have to extend the forest schema and the
> domain shcema before installing Exchange, once installed it will create
> mailboxes for the leaf objects  (User Accounts) in AD and as you know AD
> depends heavily on DNS. Exchange is a whole beast all by it
> self http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996058(EXCHG.80).aspx

Didn't realise it would be that tricky to install, was just going to
build a 2008 server then install Exchange 2010 and hope for the best,
looks like I might have some reading to do before hand.

Robin

> On Feb 14, 2011, at 3:47 PM, Robin Wood wrote:
>
> On 14 February 2011 17:55, Carlos Perez <carlos_perez () darkoperator com>
> wrote:
>
> for AD wich will populate also Exchange you can do from cmd
>
>  for /F %i in (1,1,1000) do dsadd user
>
> cn=User%i,ou=bulk,dc=acmeinclab,dc=com-pwd User%i
>
> Nice, thought there might be something like that. As I'm installing
> Exchange on a separate machine is it obvious how the two will link
> together?
>
> Robin
>
> On Feb 14, 2011, at 12:17 PM, Robin Wood wrote:
>
> I asked this on Twitter earlier but thought I'd try a wider audience....
>
> My windows test lab is looking a bit sparse on data, I've got plenty
>
> of web and sql data but nothing much in my AD and I'm about to setup
>
> an Exchange server which won't get much beyond a couple of accounts to
>
> test the setup worked. I've also got Sharepoint to install (blessed is
>
> Technet!) which will start out empty.
>
> Does anyone have any canned data for AD, Sharepoint or Exchange so I
>
> can beef it all up a bit?
>
> Even better, is there an easy way to script creating data so that I
>
> can generate a load to my own specs?
>
> Robin
>
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