Problem with AD Connector updating City, State with literal text

The Problem:
When a user is created in AD (using out of the box OIM connector 9041), all values for city, state etc change in AD to be literally "city", "state" etc. instead of correct values supplied via AD User Provisioning form (even with prepop).

The Resolution:
There is a task in AD called Set Exchange Related Properties in Exchange Provisioning Definition. This task has a literal value for all the AD fields like "city", "state". Either make this task conditional or map these values from Xellerate User City / State UDFs.

Testing your MS-Exchange Server

A quick test to make sure your localhost MS-Exchange Server is running is to use command line window.

Go to Windows Start Button -> Run...
Type cmd and Press Ok. Once on the command line window, do the following.

telnet localhost 25
HELO
MAIL FROM:ABHATIA@somecompany.com
RCPT TO:rbhatia@somecompany.com
DATA
Here is the test message.
.
QUIT

You should recieve an email shortly (depending how your server is configured to deliver the message - after an interval or right away).

Here is how this looks:



Happy Testing :)