HMC tips for Exchange: Part 3 - Fixing GAL issues

It’s an unfortunate problem that the GAL integration isn’t rock solid with HMC and Exchange, and that it is merely controlled by the AD schema attributes (see The Zen of Hosting: Part 5 – HMC and Exchange for more info), and it’s very for this to be screwed up by a number of things. Most common for me is the use of the Exchange PowerShell which seems to reset that attribute with a lot of it’s commands. The easiest way to resolve it is with another XML request passed to provtest, in this case the nicely named RepairExchangeObject. Basically it just needs the domain controller and the LDAP path to the user who has had their attributes screwed and off it goes and fixes it.
NOTE: This is for HMC 4.0, 4.5 has a different structure completely. Check the SDK for the message which will give you a sample you can use.
The request looks like this:

<request> 
    <data> 
        <preferredDomainController>Domain Controller</preferredDomainController>
        <path>LDAP Path</path>
    </data>
    <procedure> 
        <execute namespace="Exchange 2007 Provider" procedure="RepairExchangeObject" impersonate="1" > 
            <before source="data" destination="executeData" mode="merge" />
            <after source="executeData" destination="data" mode="merge" />
        </execute>
    </procedure>
</request>

Sample:

<request> 
    <data> 
        <preferredDomainController>srv01</preferredDomainController>
        <path>LDAP://[email protected],OU=MyCustomer,OU=MyReseller,OU=Hosting,DC=litware,DC=local</path>
    </data>
    <procedure> 
        <execute namespace="Exchange 2007 Provider" procedure="RepairExchangeObject" impersonate="1" > 
            <before source="data" destination="executeData" mode="merge" />
            <after source="executeData" destination="data" mode="merge" />
        </execute>
    </procedure>
</request>