[cobalt-users] Exchange 2000 and Qube 3 GAL Synchronization

["Martin Jackson" <Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I work for a multi-national company with numerous small branch offices, for 
our larger sites we are using Exchange 2000 Server but for our smaller ones 
(>20 people) we are considering using Cobalt Qubes. 

I've been going over the specs,websites and newsgroups trying to find a way 
to cost effectively (in terms of money and time) synchronize the corporate 
Exchange global address list with Qube 3's LDAP directory. Has anyone tried 
and succeeded (or almost succeeded) in doing this?

My research has lead me down 4 avenues

1. Buy a professional LDAP Directory Synchronization Utility e.g Compaq's 
LDSU (at $20K its a bit out of our budget)
2. Purchase a Meta Directory to synchronize this information for me 
(Overkill and pricey)
3. Manually Export Exchange's GAL to CSV convert it to an LDIF file, hack 
it and all the remote branches exported LDIF files together into on file 
and import it into all the servers (this will take a lot of time and its 
risky as well)
4. Contract in a developer to come up with a solution (we don't have the 
skillset in house to QA his work or estimate how long it will take)

Any help would be extremely appreciated!

-Martin 

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