On 10/16/2013 2:27 PM, David F. Skoll wrote:
I think this is a deliberate strategy on the part of Microsoft. I think they're making Exchange so complicated and such a PITA that people give up and go to the cloud, ideally to Office 365. For many small companies, going to the cloud probably makes lots of sense, as long as they don't mind paying extra and don't mind the NSA having access to their email. :) Regards, David.
That is giant tin-hat foil worthy! LOL. I also do not know why Microsoft makes it so difficult but it really started to become difficult a while ago. Really long before their cloud initiative.
So in the beginning for our issue, our firm implemented something similar and it's documented at http://www.pccc.com/downloads/ldap/ thanks primarily to Brian Landers <br...@packetslave.com> and his work. This is a nice solution that uses LDAP and queries it to build an access list with sendmail.
However, for our proprietary stuff, we had turned that concept on it's head and used a program to push the data to the server (we call it Forward and Store Technology) and support sendmail and exchange. I'll see if I can share more about that.
Regards, KAM
