Installing exchange 2010 with samba DCs

Matthieu Patou mat at samba.org
Sun May 20 22:47:16 MDT 2012


Hello Simo,

The comment was a bit terse, I updated the comments (and addressed the 
remark of Matthias).
Now the changeset is 7cf1f92.

Matthieu

On 05/20/2012 12:53 PM, simo wrote:
> Matthieu,
> can you please ad comments in the commit message and in the code about
> what yo are trying to do in a14c70b0faeda491d7f876c9aa8165e6c7768cae.
>
> It would help understanding the consequences, as well as possible
> suggesting more performant options if needed.
>
> I am a bit worried about the way you attacked the problem, but can't
> tell if I should really care that much w/o context.
>
> Simo.
>
> On Sat, 2012-05-19 at 09:37 -0700, Matthieu Patou wrote:
>> Matthias,
>>
>> Can you have a link on this fix 002ea80 in my repository listed below ?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Matthieu.
>>
>> On 05/18/2012 10:16 AM, Matthieu Patou wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Last 3/4 weeks I made a lot of changes in samba so that the
>>> installation of Exchange 2010 could be possible with samba 4 DCs.
>>> The final result is really positive as I'm able to install exchange in
>>> less than 30 minutes when running samba on my laptop and a windows
>>> 2008R2 server with exchange installation in virtualbox.
>>> The patch set to do so is here:
>>> http://gitweb.samba.org/?p=mat/samba.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/schema
>>>
>>> I still have to review it but I think it gives an idea of the change I
>>> had to do. The bad news is that it seems that exchange didn't run very
>>> smoothly when installed with samba (for the moment).
>>> I don't have plans to work on this and maybe not in the next months or
>>> so, still I'm wondering if there is people who could be interested to
>>> run this kind of setup (samba 4 DCs + exchange on windows server).
>>>
>>> The positive side effect of the work on the schema is a huge speedup
>>> when schema are modified and also much more reliability in the schema
>>> updates.
>>>
>>> Matthieu.
>>>
>>
>


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Matthieu Patou
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