Sun™ ONE Messaging Server: Practices and Techniques for Enterprise Customers

Provisioning

Once you know the system is installed and operational, the next major tasks is most likely how to best add and remove users, sometimes also called accounts or other terms. In the ISP world, the term used to describe this process is called provisioning. As with many things, there is often more than one way or method of provisioning accomplishing the task. Provisioning users or accounts is no different. Provisioning sometimes assumes starting a new user from scratch, but it may in fact be one of the steps in the migration process of an organization's older mail system. This chapter approaches it from the new user perspective, though the approach is not totally different when doing this as part of a migration. Some additional issues ...