NAME

Win32::MailboxGUID - functions to convert Exchange mailbox GUIDs

VERSION

version 0.02

SYNOPSIS

            

              
              
# Example that requires Win32::OLE, DBI, DBD::ADO and administrative permissions
# invoked with a list of Exchange servers on the command line to query
# Use of 'exch_to_ad'
use strict;
use warnings;
use Win32::OLE qw(in);
use Win32::MailboxGUID qw[exch_to_ad];
use DBI;
$|=1;
my %limitinfo = (
  '1', 'Below Limit',
  '2', 'Issue Warning',
  '4', 'Prohibit Send',
  '8', 'No Checking',
 '16', 'Mailbox Disabled',
);
my $Root = Win32::OLE-> GetObject("LDAP://RootDSE");
my $DefaultDomainNC = $Root-> Get("DefaultNamingContext");
my $dsn = "Provider=ADsDSOObject;ConnectionString=$DefaultDomainNC";
my ($usr,$pwd);
my $att = { };
my $dbi = DBI->connect("dbi:ADO:$dsn", $usr, $pwd, $att ) or die $DBI::errstr;
OUTER: foreach my $server ( @ARGV ) {
  my $object = Win32::OLE->GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!//$server/root/MicrosoftExchangeV2");
  next OUTER unless $object;
  INNER: foreach my $mailbox ( in $object->InstancesOf("Exchange_Mailbox") ) {
     # Look up the quota info from the user account in AD
     my $mbguid = $mailbox->{MailboxGUID};
     my @quotas = _find_user( $dbi, $mbguid );
     my $limit = defined $mailbox->{StorageLimitInfo} && $limitinfo{ $mailbox->{StorageLimitInfo} } ? $limitinfo{ $mailbox->{StorageLimitInfo} } : '';
     print join ',', $mailbox->{MailboxDisplayName}, $mailbox->{Size}, @quotas, $limit, $mailbox->{ServerName}, $mailbox->{TotalItems} || 0;
     print "\n";
     }
  }
}
exit 0;
sub _find_user {
  my $dbh = shift;
  my $guid = exch_to_ad( shift ); # convert the GUID Exchange to AD
  $guid = $dbi->quote( $guid );
  my $sth = $dbi->prepare(qq{ select AdsPath FROM 'LDAP://$DefaultDomainNC' WHERE msExchMailboxGuid = $guid }) or die "Error $DBI::err ($DBI::errstr)\n";
  $sth->execute() or die "Error $DBI::err ($DBI::errstr)\n";
  while ( my $hashref = $sth->fetchrow_hashref ) {
     my $object = Win32::OLE->GetObject($hashref->{AdsPath});
     next unless $object;
     if ( $object->{mDBUseDefaults} ) {
       return ( 'defaults', 'defaults', 'defaults' );
     }
     else {
       return map { $object->{$_} } qw(mDBStorageQuota mDBOverQuotaLimit mDBOverHardQuotaLimit);
     }
  }
  return ('orphaned','orphaned','orphaned');
}
            
          

DESCRIPTION

Active Directory and Exchange Server use a GUID to link a user account to a mailbox. Unfortunately, both these beasts cannot agree on the storage/presentation format of the GUID.

Retrieving user objects from Active Directory with ADSI, the msExchMailboxGuid is in a byte array format, which can be represented as:

            

              
              
\C2\A4\11\F9\DE\42\C1\42\8D\97\AB\EF\77\66\06\3C
            
          

Whereas using the WMI Exchange provider, MailboxGUID is in the following format:

            

              
              
{F911A4C2-42DE-42C1-8D97-ABEF7766063C}
            
          

This module provides two functions that will convert between these two formats, making the life of the Win32 Perl scripting system administrator slightly less painful.

FUNCTIONS

The functions listed may be imported into your namespace on demand.

            

              
              
use Win32::MailboxGUID qw[ad_to_exch exch_to_ad];
            
          

Or called as class methods.

            

              
              
use Win32::MailBoxGUID;
my $guid = Win32::MailboxGUID->ad_to_exch( $adexchguid );
            
          

ad_to_exch

Takes a byte array such as the msExchMailboxGuid attribute from an Active Directory user object. Returns the GUID as a MailboxGUID formatted string as per the Exchange_Mailbox WMI class.

exch_to_ad

Takes a MailboxGUID formatted string as per the Exchange_Mailbox WMI class. Returns a hex string of the msExchMailboxGuid suitable for searching/updating Active Directory.

SEE ALSO

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa143732%28v=EXCHG.65%29.aspx

AUTHOR

Chris Williams <chris@bingosnet.co.uk>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Chris Williams.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.