Looking for Rogue User Objects in Active Directory

Posted by: Brian Desmonds Blog, on 30 Aug 2009 | View original | Bookmarked: 0 time(s)

I had this problem I needed to solve earlier today which involved going through about 115,000 users and determining which ones existed in the source of record (some tables in an Oracle database). There's a bunch of ways to go about this, but, I settled on a solution that involved storing the state information in Active Directory. What I decided to do was task extensionAttribute10 from Exchange as a temporary counter variable on the user objects. Exchange conveniently indexes this attribute as of...

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