The Problem I have some users who are on a different mail system but still part of my company. The problem was that the users without Exchange 2003 accounts were not showing up in the Global Address List (GAL). Solution The first step was to look at the LDAP filter that generates the GAL. This… Continue Reading
Introduction: A common practice in networks is to have at least two Exchange servers, a front-end server in the demilitarized zone (DMZ, perimeter network in Microsoft terminology) and a back-end server in the company’s main network. The front-end server hosts the public SMTP server and web mail. The back-end server hosts the actual mail (information… Continue Reading
The current infrastructure at my office uses network information services (NIS) to authenticate users on Linux machines against the office’s Window’s domain. I found this to be unreliable. It depends upon Microsoft Identity Management for Unix, version 5.2, which is flaky in my experience. My goal was to be able to transition from NIS to… Continue Reading