Active Role Synchronization for GAL entries

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Hello, 
 I'm hoping someone can provide any information or experience on syncing a GAL between two Exchange environments. 
 Right now I am just creating a contact in the target domain using a user account info from the source and giving the contact the target address of the source domain account. I create the contact but still need to run a script on the target side to mail-enable the contact. Has anyone ever used the sync between two Exchange environments to create a mail contact that is mail enabled? Or anyone know a easy way to sync the GAL? 
 I've mostly worked with the domain sync between two domains. I just need to sync one way for the GAL to have entries from the Source domain to the Target. 
 FYI: I'm not an Exchange Admin and inexperienced with Exchange side of the house. 
 Thanks for any advice or guidance in advanced. 
 Thank you, 
 Lu

Richard.Lambert · Accepted Answer

Yes, running this type of post script is expected. It is necessary to complete the mail enablement of the Contact object in the target Exchange Org. 
 I too would expect the initial sync to take some time to complete with 44k objects. You could consider breaking the initial sync into chunks of objects by populating a certain number of the source objects with a specific value on an attribute and use this attribute/value pair in source scoping for determining which objects to process. 
 If you'd like to explore this route (which would need to be tested further in your environment), to possibly eliminate the need for a follow-up script, I was able to convert a Contact into a Mail Enabled Contact by utilizing the Exchange connector in the Sync Service. Create the Contacts in the target AD environment as currently implemented. Create a new Provisioning step and identify the source system as the target AD domain that contains the Contacts and the target system as the Exchange system, which is also in the same target environment. Mapping rule between these systems is mail=ExternalEmailAddress. Map the object types AD Contact to Exchange MailContact, and for the Creation Rules use mail->ExternalEmailAddress and displayName->Identity. This seemed successful at converting the Contacts into Mail Enabled Contacts in my lab, complete with the LegacyExchangeDN now being populated.

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Active Role Synchronization for GAL entries

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