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Using Perl to Automate Exchange 2000 Tasks?

Posted by Cliff on from the the-camel-is-everywhere dept.

en4ca asks: "We have recently started using Exchange 2000 on a W2k platform with Active Directory at work. Previously, we used a mailsystem that could be easily controlled by command-line paramaters (and hence by perl). What I wanted to ask was, has anyone used perl to automate boring, mundane tasks in Exchange like mass creating mailboxes? What did you use to do this? [code would be very much appreciated] I've tried using Win32::OLE, but havn't had much success"

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  1. Scripting Exchange 2K by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 2

    With Exchange 2000, you are really looking for the ADSI scripting interface to ActiveDirectory - as the Exchange DS is merged into AD. Check out Microsoft Technet.

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  2. Re:Trolls by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 3, Informative
    Exchange client for Linux? Try Ximian's Evolution, with the "Premium" Exchange connector they are releasing next month.

    Otherwise, Netscape etc. work as decent IMAP clients - as long as you don't expect to use calendar/scheduling, tasks or notes!

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  3. Check out this book by SuiteSisterMary · · Score: 2

    ADSI Scripting For System Administration should give you a starting point.

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  4. Other interfaces by jbert · · Score: 4, Informative

    ADSI edit is one way to twiddle active directory.

    You can also get in over LDAP. This can be done nicely from perl with the 'Net::LDAP' module, available under the name 'perl-ldap' from CPAN and with a homepage on sourceforge.

    It is a useful interface, the biggest hurdle you are likely to face is authenticating yourself properly to the directory. There may be bits and pieces of example code in the distribution, otherwise do the web search thing and check the mailing list (and archives) for answers.

  5. Re:Trolls by Mr.+Foogle · · Score: 2, Informative

    There are indeed - but I have not tried it yet - if I recall right Bynari sells a version of the client, and open sourced an older version ..

    http://www.bynari.net

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  6. Hm. by mlc · · Score: 2
    I'm totally making this up, as I haven't done any Windows development in about 1.5yrs, but you might try looking at ActiveState's Perl COM stuff. I did use it for something, but don't recall if it worked well or not.

    If it works well, then you can read MS docs to figure out what kind of COM interfaces are exposed by Exchange, and work from there.