XADM: Exchange Organization Name Is Case Sensitive

• Microsoft Exchange Server, versions 5.5, 4.0, 5.0

SUMMARY

The Exchange organization name is case sensitive when you reinstall Exchange Server during disaster recovery, but is not case sensitive with regard to directory replication addressing.

MORE INFORMATION

When viewing information about the organization name and directory replication, case sensitivity of the organization name is unimportant.

If the only difference between the organization names is the case- sensitivity, all parts of directory service replication will work correctly. If a replication problem occurs because the case of the organization or site name differs, it is a bug and should be treated as such. Case sensitivity of the organization name, regarding directory service replication, is not an issue. However, it is an issue regarding disaster recovery or restoring. For example, a server in an organization named Dynasty fails and must be restored, if Microsoft Exchange Server is reinstalled and the organization is named DYNASTY (uppercase), the store does start because of the mismatch (Dynasty versus DYNASTY).

This is a constraint of the X.500 nomenclature in the information store. This can be avoided by reinstalling Exchange Server with the original organization name, Dynasty, for that restoration of that server. More information regarding disaster recovery can be found at the Microsoft World Wide Web site at http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/evalgd.htm.

Additional query words: Organization case-sensitivity replication crash

Keywords : XADM exc4 exc5 exc55
Version : winnt:4.0,5.0,5.5
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbinfo