Re: canned data for AD and Exchanged

[Carlos Perez <carlos_perez () darkoperator com>]

size, when I was at HP we worked some projects with the DOD and others where GC where in the several hundred of 
Gigabytes, for most deployments there is no problem but when you are talking about hundreds of thousands of extensions 
it does add up very quickly, specially since you have to support mixed environments with several versions of windows 
and exchange where you can not leverage some of the new improvements for replication. 
On Feb 15, 2011, at 1:08 PM, Michael Miller wrote:

> Yeah Microsoft seems to have a knack or maybe a sub-market to keep their consulting services alive.  It's not that 
> bad if you RTFM but it seems to be overly complex for something that could have been integrated into AD.  About 1/4 
> of the needed information is already in the LDAP shcema.  I don't know why they couldn't clean up the exchange shcema 
> extension and make it part of the default AD LDAP shcema.
>
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Robin Wood <robin () digininja org> wrote:
> 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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