How to use the Mailbox Server Attribute %EXCHS% and Mailbox Store %EXCMS% rule string

Products

• CA Identity Manager
• CA Identity Governance
• CA Identity Portal
• CA Identity Suite

Issue/Introduction

In the Active Directory Account Template, Exchange General (User) tab, by default, these Provisioning attributes are not mapped in the Identity Manager side, below how to add these attributes to map with User attributes.

Environment

Identity Manager 14.x

Cause

The Mailbox Store and Mailbox Server have no attributes in the Provisioning Directory to be mapped to.

Mailbox Store
Mailbox Server

Resolution

It is needed to add both attributes in the ProvStore.XML file as follow:

How to add the attributes to the Provisioning Directory:

- Access the Identity Manager Management Console
- Access the 
- Export the Provisioning Store XML file by click Export button
- Edit the exported file
- Search for string <ImsManagedObject name="Global User"

- Add the two lines below after the line above
<ImsManagedObjectAttr physicalname="eTHomeServerEXC" description="Home Server" displayname="Home Server" valuetype="String" multivalued="false" wellknown="%HOME_SERVER%" maxlength="0"/>

<ImsManagedObjectAttr physicalname="eTMailboxStoreEXC" description="Mailbox Datastore" displayname="Mailbox Datastore" valuetype="String" multivalued="false" wellknown="%MAILBOX_DATASTORE%" maxlength="0"/>

- Save the file and from the same you exported the file, click on Update button, select the XML file and click Next button
- Click Restart Environment.

 

How to map these attributes with User attributes

- Now you need to map both attributes with User attributes.
- Click Home > Environments > <Your_Environment> and Advanced Settings link
- Click Provisioning 
- From "Attribute Mappings" section, select a User Attribute to map to "eTHomeServerEXC" from Provisioning Attribute list, for example "imString00", click Add button
- Do the same for "eTMailboxStoreEXC", for example "imString01", click Add button
- From the footer, click Save button.

 

Change the "Modify User" admin task to add both attributes, the process to "Create User" admin task is the same

At this point, you must add both imSting00 and imString01 in your Admin Task, below a sample for Modify User Admin Task.
- From Identity Manager UI
- Select "Roles and Tasks" > Admin Tasks > Modify Admin Task
- Select "Modify User" Admin Task
- Click Tabs
- Edit Profile
- From Screen field, click Browse button
- Click Edit button
- Add two fields and set the values as follow:
   Select the Attribute Name "String 000" in case you use the imString00
   Style = Text
   Permission = Read/Write
- Do the same for "String 001" in case you use the imString01
- Click OK button
- Click Select button
- Click OK button
- Click Submit

At this point, you use the Modify User Admin task to change the user attribute and check in the Provisioning Manager the result.

 

Note: In this document, we use imString00 and imString01, but you can you any User attribute you want since it is not already mapped to another user attribute.