Glad to be of help Karen. The Exchange specific schema attributes of user objects can be viewed only when the required DLLs are installed. Exchange System manager does that. Regards, Raj -----Original Message----- From: Karen Sorrell [mailto:ksorrell@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 5:12 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: ADC...yes or no? ' NO' for Exchange Admin purposes.... http://www.MSExchange.org/ Thank you Raj, that is basically what I have discovered, as discussed in the KnowledgeBase article Q244287 (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;244287&;) I guess the point is that unless you install the Exchange System Manager on WHATEVER machine you want to use to administer user accounts, you will not have access to the 'Exchange Tasks...' option when you right-mouse click a user in the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in. Nor will you be able to see the additional columns (by the way Mark, they are not available, hidden or otherwise, unless the Exchange System Manager has been installed). Karen -----Original Message----- From: Periyasamy, Raj [mailto:Raj.Periyasamy@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 2:13 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: ADC...yes or no? http://www.MSExchange.org/ Just install the Exchange System Manager console in the DC. Regards, Raj -----Original Message----- From: Karen Sorrell [mailto:ksorrell@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 1:09 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: ADC...yes or no? http://www.MSExchange.org/ The reason we are even considering it is so we can see more than the 3 columns in the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in. What do you have to do in order to use any old domain controller's Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in so that they will all show the Exchange Alias column and the Exchange Mailbox columns, etc.? Thanks, Karen -----Original Message----- From: Mark Fugatt [mailto:mark@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 12:18 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: ADC...yes or no? http://www.MSExchange.org/ Karen If you do not have any Exchange 5.5 in your environment then you would not need the ADC. The ADC is responsible for syncing the Exchange 5.5 Directory Service with the Windows 2000 Active Directory. Mark Fugatt MCSE, MCT, Microsoft Exchange MVP Pentech Office Solutions Inc www.4mcts.com Tel: 585 586 3890 Fax: 585 249 0316 Cell: 585 576 4750 Visit www.msexchange.org for valuable information about Microsoft Exchange -----Original Message----- From: Karen Sorrell [mailto:ksorrell@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 12:12 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] ADC...yes or no? http://www.MSExchange.org/ Is it totally required that you install the Active Directory Connector? Here's the story: We have a Windows 2000 Active Directory forest in mixed mode. There is only one domain in the forest. There are 4 sites. Currently, email is handled by a Unix system, so nobody's user account (there are over 4000 users) in Active Directory has a mailbox yet. Everybody uses POP3 clients against the Unix server for email, which uses a different user account than the Active Directory user account. The idea is to install a member server (W2K w/SP3), then install Exchange 2000 with SP3 on it, and then create mailboxes for everybody. The question is: what bad things will happen if the Active Directory Connector is not setup? I mean, it's not like we have to reconcile an Exchange 5.5 directory with the Active Directory. All of the stuff from the old mail system has already been exported and formatted into ldif files and is ready for import (heavy use of a test lab here). All of the manual labor has already been done. What's so bad about NOT installing the ADC? Bottom line: What functionality will we lose by not using the ADC? 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