Ah, I thought your name/question sounded familiar. Are you saying you can't
find any common values between a GAL entry and it's supposedly related AD
object?

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"Tadwick" wrote:

This is related to a question that we corresponded on last week. The user's
mailbox contains a number of useful AD properties like :

msExchRecipientDisplayType (eg ConferenceRoomMailbox)
msExchRecipientTypeDetails (eg RoomMailbox)
msExchResourceCapacity (integer indicating how many people the room holds)

I can use .Net's DirectoryServices classes to get these properties but I
need some way to relate the GAL entry to the AD directory entry. Using
ADSIEdit, it appears that the AD directory entry "legacyExchangeDN" is
equivalent to the Address property of an AddressEntry or Recipient object;
However, I'm not sure how reliable this mapping is and I have only checked on
an Exchange 2007 (where the mailboxes were created and not migrated from an
earlier Exchange server).

"Eric Legault [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

Can you tell me more about how a user's mailbox fits into your solution, as
well why you need to associate a recipient with an AD property? This will
better allow me to validate your approach.

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"Tadwick" wrote:

I have an app that runs in Outlook and allows the user to retrieve recipients
via the GAL. (I'm using Redemption to do this.) So far I have been using
the EntryID as a unique identifier for a mailbox; however, I gather this
property is not static so I'm wondering how best to map a GAL recipient to an
AD property like a GUID.

Any assistance with this would be appreciated.


Thanks, Tad