MarcusJ
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Using Homes to create GroupWise Archive folders. - 2004/03/09 10:42
First off... I would like to say I have been very impressed with homes. I have been working on a simple application to do this type of thing for a little while. Well, until I came across Homes.
We are currently running some test with Homes in our lab environment to see if it will help us move our user home data. These tests have been great and it will save so much time when moving or creating the home directories (specially with a limited support staff that we have).
However, a bigger problem we have is that we are moving the users GroupWise Archives from their local workstations to the network. So we require to create and assign rights and space restrictions (in the same fashion as a home folder) but to their Archive folder.
We already use a tool to extract a CSV/TXT file that contains their username and context (.user.hq.tree) and their GroupWise FID. Can we use this text file to have homes create directories based on this three digit FID (such as "ofFIDarc" since GroupWise will look for a specific directory based on their unique FID. So if my FID was "7G4" the directory would need to be "of7g4arc").
Now we could append the entry in the CSV file to add the "of" in front of the FID and add the "arc" at the end. However, I am sure that we are not the only ones in the position of having user home folders and email archives in different areas and this could be a feature others will use.
Let me know if you think of a way we could do this with the current product or if it will just not work.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
MarcusJ
PS.. do you offer a bundle that includes all your software? or do we need to purchase each one separately?
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