querying exchange server

divyashree · 04-05-2012, 02:31 AM

Is this possible ?

To query email-id from exchange server from shell script , if the user-id is known.

linuxlover.chaitanya · 04-05-2012, 04:22 AM

As far as I think, exchange can only work with Active directory and the users are to be created in AD. This is how MS has integrated the products. If you want to retrieve the information, you will most probably want to do it from AD rather than exchange. And this is possible using ldapsearch command line interface tool.

divyashree · 04-05-2012, 05:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by linuxlover.chaitanya

As far as I think, exchange can only work with Active directory and the users are to be created in AD. This is how MS has integrated the products. If you want to retrieve the information, you will most probably want to do it from AD rather than exchange. And this is possible using ldapsearch command line interface tool.

Thanks Chaitanya for the suggestion.

BUt can you give me an example how to use ldapsearch to query email-id from AD.

linuxlover.chaitanya · 04-05-2012, 05:42 AM

You can read man page for ldapsearch on how to search the AD. If you have a successful search, AD will return a lot of information regarding the user. You can then grep or use filter for certain specific information. I would suggest you use ldapsearch and try to make it successful. Once done, you would not probably need any more help.