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Hi,
First off: I'm really disappointed that the SAC can't manipulate the creation and permissions of the public folders.

So, that being said. I need to come up with a way to create the acl's in such a way that permissions are automatically assigned to folder based on "groups" (he hopes).. Reading through the ACL section of the admin guide I see a number of wild card examples using the OU1-4 to set permissions. I see the OU1 and OU2 specify the "mail node" which leaves OU3 and OU4. But I don't see a way to manipulate those attributes in the SAC.

I created a group and added my test user to it. I see the attribute "PARENT-DL=" added to the OR address. Can I use this to make a ACL "automatically update" when users are provisioned via the SAC and added to group(s)?

I'm rolling out scalix to 1,000+ users in 50 different geographic location with many subdivisions within each. There's a lot of information passed between the different groups and the corporate office. Permissions alone are going to be a nightmare but needing to add each user individually to an ACL is out of the question.

Can someone please recommend a clean way to manage the public folders so I can have my non-CLI support team add users and get things provisioned properly by using what can be managed via the SAC?

Thanks all,
chrisj

One possibility is to associate PDL's with the ACL's. What you will then need to do is write a script that regulartly (once a day?) read the group members, compare that to the ACL's on the Bulletin Board and make any neccesary changes. Your users will then be able to modify the groups in SAC and so indirectly change ACL's. Scalix did mention that they are looking at having PDL's control ACL's in a future release, but no timeframe was given.

The only ways to change ACL's on BB's right now is via the CLI or via Outlook by an adminstrator.