GAL Sharing recommendations between forests

[mpriess]

Suggestions for sharing Exchange 2003 GAL's between forests?

So far, the simplest option seems to be that of adding an address book on
the local client that connects to an ldap server in the other domain to
retrieve the GAL. This should work with appropriate permssions. However,
this would require touching or re-configuring outlook on thousands of
desktops.

I do not want to replicate user accounts in the other domain as mail enabled
contacts (what identity migration server would do).

Any other ideas?

Thx,
Mark

[Mark in Indy]

You can use IIFP. Here is an article I received from someone in here.

http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/GAL-Sync-Identity-Integration-Feature-Pack-IIFP.html

Post by mpriess
Suggestions for sharing Exchange 2003 GAL's between forests?
So far, the simplest option seems to be that of adding an address book on
the local client that connects to an ldap server in the other domain to
retrieve the GAL. This should work with appropriate permssions. However,
this would require touching or re-configuring outlook on thousands of
desktops.
I do not want to replicate user accounts in the other domain as mail enabled
contacts (what identity migration server would do).
Any other ideas?
Thx,
Mark