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One of the challenges that result from operating a messaging environment is making sure the company’s internal Distribution Lists stay up to date.  In most corporate environments, this is a task that is typically assigned to IT staff, however it does not have to be like this.  At least, not for regular Distribution Lists.  (It may be a bit complicated for Dynamic Distribution Lists, but hey – they are dynamic so there should be no reason to delegate management access to a Dynamic Distribution List) There may be good reasons to delegate this task to end users, and ideally these users should be able to use their Outlook client to manage the company Distribution Lists.  Imagine that you can ask Marketing people to keep the Marketing distribution list up to date… or ask Sales support people to do the …

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The title of this post may be a bit misleading – synchronizing multiple account domains to a single domain or forest is not limited to Exchange. There may be other reasons (e.g. Identity Management solution) that require you to replicate users from multiple domains into a single domain/forest, or even ADAM instance.

In this blog post, I will show you a possible IIFP implementation that has some specific requirements. In my scenario, IIFP will be used to replicate user objects from multiple account domains into one centralized resource forest, and it will be used replicate back the “mail” and “proxyAddresses” attributes from the Resource Forest to the account domains.  Furthermore, I also need to replicate user objects from a domain that is not used for authenticate users or link mailboxes to, but merely to add the users as contacts in the …